Job Description

• Location: Filton, Gloucestershire, England
• Salary: 35 per hour + Umbrella
• Category

• Sector:
• Contract type Contract
• Consultant: Louise Wardle

Morson are recruiting a Manufacturing Engineer with cost engineering experience to join our Filton based aerospace client This is an initial 12 month contract and candidates must be ok to work 3 days/week on site on Filton. This role is paying 35/hour on an Umbrella company basis or 26.16 per hour PAYE
The Manufacturing Engineer will join the Cost Engineering team and will support all current and future products on cost effectiveness through the design to cost process. The
Aerostructures Cost Engineering team is responsible for estimating the full aircraft perimeter for all programmes both NRC (Non-Recurring Costs) and RC (Recurring Costs), Make and Buy.
Cost Engineering is a key enabler for the organisation to reach competitive costing targets for all programmes and pricing agreements with suppliers (new contracts, claims, pricing models) and to take balanced operational and strategic decisions on a wide range of manufacturing and procurement topics.
Using detailed, up to date knowledge of aircraft manufacturing processes, the Costing team provides a neutral, independent view of manufacturing costs and actively supports supplier negotiations and decision making on the full perimeter of current and future manufacturing processes/technologies.
Job Responsibilities:
Produce RC and NRC estimates for Design to Cost projects to enable business decisions to be made.
Responsible for using Digital Costing tools and models and ensuring estimates are harmonised and consistent with the latest references and ways of working.
Support cost modeling, specifically for Composites manufacturing processes.
Support successful Design to Cost projects from concept through to Entry Into Service ensuring that the RC reduction is maintained.
Analysing work package estimates, identifying opportunities and communicating those opportunities to Programme and Engineering customers
Understand and support Manufacturing and Engineering activities in order to better estimate the recurring and non-recurring costs associated with design changes, from R&T to Design-to-Cost activities.
Lead cost engineering discussions with suppliers
Participate in Design to Cost workshops and provide key messages and recommendations to stakeholders for cost effective solutions.
Responsible for guaranteeing the quality, reliability and neutrality of the costing procedure and results.
Skills:
Your skills may include:
Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in Engineering or a related discipline.
Manufacturing and/or Engineering experience
Knowledge of detail part manufacturing processes: composite, metallic, machined and fabricated, assembly
Knowledge of non recurring impacts when industrializing product changes.
Design to cost experience and mindset
Ability to understand and explain design, manufacturing and costing details, while at the same time being able to step back to get the macro view for the complete business
Very good strategic and analytical skills incl. data analysis, able to breakdown complex topics, make root-cause analysis.

Skills Required