Cost Engineer General Industry

Are you ready to use your technical insight and sense of numbers to create winning bids for challenging, high-end projects worldwide?

What do we expect?

• At least a completed Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or similar;
• You switch effortlessly between different calculations and projects and structure your tasks and activities;
• Microsoft Excel holds no secrets for you. Knowledge of Microsoft Navision is not a requirement, but it is a bonus. This will help you progress faster in this role;
• You have a strong interest in technology, data and finance and are accurate, analytical and able to fathom large amounts of numerical information;
• A collaborative, proactive and inquisitive mindset. You retrieve missing information from colleagues and ensure clarity.

What do we offer:

• A good salary between €3.900 and €5.000 gross per month;
• A challenging work environment that stimulates your creativity and development so that you continue to grow as a professional;
• Toegang tot onze eigen AWL Academy met > 50 opleidingen;
• An attractive (secondary) employment package (in accordance with the CAO Metalektro, with 40 days of leave and a pension scheme via PME;
• Deelname aan ons vitaliteitsprogramma ‘Boost Your Life’, inclusief bootcamp, spinning en korting op je sportschoolabonnement (via Bedrijfsfitness Nederland).

As a Cost Engineer, you play a crucial role in creating winning bids, contributing to smart, cost-efficient solutions for our international customers. The main challenge is to translate conceptual ideas into a realistic cost price. In doing so, you use large amounts of data and translate complex information into clear insights. You achieve this by working closely with the sales team and being in regular contact with your colleagues from Supply Chain, Production and Finance. Through your feeling for figures and data, you recognise patterns in cost price calculations, whereby your technical insight helps you translate a technical concept into a feasible cost price.

Due to the many projects you are working on simultaneously, you can expect a lot of dynamics in your daily work. Think of the following: calculating the cost price of machines by providing insight into the individual components (material) and hours for programming, assembling and optimising the process (hours). In addition, you will help think through the cost factors of complete production lines and indicate what is needed to make a correct cost price. In our international playing field, you also have regular contact with colleagues from foreign locations.

As a Cost Engineer, you will also contribute to our internal process, including procurement and (resource) planning. Moreover, you will actively contribute to the continuous improvement of the process by participating in the feedback loop. This is crucial to maintain a keen insight into actual costs as a sales team. You also provide insight into cost trends, both in the market and internally.

This will be your day

8:00You start your day by mapping out your to-do's for the day and rest of the week. You start with a handover from a colleague concept engineer for a new machine.11:00After conferring with your colleague, you set aside time to work out some details. Based on the information given, you make a first estimate of the cost price calculation on both material costs and hours estimates of the various disciplines.13:00After the lunch break during which you took a walk or enjoyed a delicious meal in our company restaurant, you get back to work. You have a question from a colleague. A customer wants to replace the pneumatic vacuum generator with an electric one. Together, you look at the possibilities and what is involved. You estimate the material costs and how much time it will take to exchange the generator. You put a price tag on this request and your colleague can move on.15:00Then you get to work on one of the quotes from another project. There are still some ambiguities about the engineering, so on your initiative you have made an appointment with a fellow engineer to spar about this together.16:30Time to go home! In your mirror you see the orange letters ‘AWL’ shining and go home feeling satisfied.

Your tasks:

50%Prepare budgets for potential projects30%Post-calculate to and analyse budgets of sold projects15%Participate in meetings5%Other tasks

AWL stands out for its commitment to being a good employer, with ‘caring for others’ at its core. Learning from one another and collaborating on innovative high-tech solutions are central to our approach. Colleagues are engaged, and there is ample opportunity for personal and professional development. This creates a dynamic environment where opportunities and ideas are embraced. We believe in our people! Down-to-earth and straightforward, at AWL you work in an international setting with passionate professionals. With offices in the Netherlands (HQ), Czech Republic, China, Mexico, the United States, and the United Kingdom, we work hard and together with over 700 colleagues to deliver global productivity for our customers.