Principal Value Engineer - Cork, Carrigtwohill IDA Business & Technology Park Anngrove

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

What you will do

The Principal Value Engineer executes assigned project elements with an emphasis on should cost and value engineering for sustaining projects.

• Employ project management and engineering experience to analyze part and portfolios for cost and other opportunities for savings

• Drive Should Cost modeling

• Drive Supplier Gemba to identify cost improvement opportunities.

• Learn and practice use of value engineering tools and templates to drive consistency across all efforts

• Own and manage functions of value engineering analysis and produce outputs

• Co-lead should cost sprints in focus categories or across categories

• Liaise with various functional stakeholders to get inputs into building should cost models

• Drive excellence throughout the agile cost sprint execution

• Codify learning into organizational best practices

• All other duties as assigned

Who we want

• Detail-oriented process improvers. Critical thinkers who naturally see opportunities to develop and optimize work processes – finding ways to simplify, standardize and automate.

• Strategic thinkers. People who enjoy analyzing data or trends for the purposes of planning, forecasting, advising, budgeting, reporting, or sales opportunities.

• Collaborative partners. People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, data and insights to drive continuous improvement in functions.

What you will need

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required

• A minimum of 8 years of relevant/related experience required

• High level of PC Skills required - power BI experience preferred.

• Knowledge of manufacturing processes, materials, product and process design required

• Must be able to read and interpret complex engineering drawings and have the ability to understand geometrical dimensioning and tolerancing.

• Experience in an FDA regulated or regulated industry- preferred

• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt / Statistics SME - preferred

Travel Percentage: 20%