Cost Engineer
// Role Summary
Airbus Defence and Space seeks a Cost Engineer in Stevenage or Portsmouth to lead cost engineering activities for business acquisition, driving cost modelling and analysis for competitive proposals and future projects.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead cost engineering for studies, proposals, and projects, focusing on data collation, modelling, and analysis.
- Ensure competitiveness of future projects by establishing robust quotation baselines.
- Coordinate bid preparation with stakeholders and implement win strategies.
- Manage financial proposals, supporting schedule, cost, and risk management throughout the lifecycle.
- Requires experience in cost engineering, financial modelling, and stakeholder coordination in a bidding environment.
- Hybrid working and flexible hours are available.
// Role Specification
Cost Engineer
Airbus Defence and Space is looking for a Cost Engineer to join our team in Stevenage or Portsmouth. This role is crucial for supporting business acquisition and driving cost engineering activities for studies, proposals, and future projects. Some hybrid working is available, subject to our Hybrid Working Policy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and lead comprehensive cost engineering activities for studies, proposals, and future EOS implementation projects.
- Collate, model, and analyse cost and price data to establish accurate quotation baselines and support financial proposals.
- Coordinate bid preparation with all stakeholders to ensure the competitiveness of EOS binding and non-binding offers, effectively implementing the win strategy.
- Lead the estimation process, balancing price-to-win, design-to-cost, value for money, profitability, and liquidity targets against customer and regulatory requirements.
- Participate in and guide engineering decisions to ensure the cost-efficient development and production of EOSX products and product families.
- Manage the timely preparation and submission of financial proposals, supporting schedule, cost, and risk management through to final customer acceptance while influencing stakeholders to optimise processes.
About You:
- Experience of cost engineering, estimating, and financial modelling within a complex bidding or business acquisition environment.
- Experience of collating and analysing cost and price data to establish quotation baselines, utilising methodologies such as design-to-cost and price-to-win.
- Experience of coordinating bid preparation and leading multi-disciplinary stakeholders to ensure competitive, compliant, and cost-efficient proposals.
- Experience of supporting project schedule, cost, and risk management through the full proposal lifecycle to final customer acceptance.
What's In It For You:
We offer a competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension, share options, car leasing scheme, free onsite parking, season ticket loan, tax-free technology scheme, and discounted shopping.
Enjoy a 37-hour week with flexible working around core hours, hybrid working arrangements, up to 2 additional days per month as TOIL, and the option to buy/sell holiday. Fridays afternoons are flexible.
Benefit from a personalised development plan, access to the Airbus Leadership University and 10,000+ E-learning courses, and internal mobility opportunities.
Our wellbeing benefits include 24/7 online GP, mental health support, an Employee Assistance Programme, and discounted family health/dental insurance/eye tests.
Family and caregiving support includes life assurance and enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave.
We foster an inclusive environment with wellbeing rooms, multi-faith rooms, and various Employee Representative Groups.
Work Location:
Stevenage or Portsmouth with hybrid working available.
This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity.