Position Summary
Identify and implement cost and mass optimization opportunities across vehicle systems while maintaining vehicle performance, durability, safety, manufacturability, regulatory compliance, and customer experience.
Key Responsibilities
VA/VE Leadership: Lead value-analysis and value-engineering (VA/VE) activities across major automotive domains.
Competitive Benchmarking: Benchmark competitor designs, materials, features, specifications, manufacturing processes, and supplier solutions.
Opportunity Identification: Develop fact-based cost, weight, complexity, and commonization opportunities supported by clear technical rationale.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Facilitate structured workshops with Engineering, Purchasing, Finance, Manufacturing, Quality, CAE, Validation, and Tier-1 suppliers.
Engineering Assessment: Assess proposed design changes against performance, fatigue, NVH, corrosion, safety, homologation, serviceability, and warranty requirements.
Business Case Development: Build robust business cases detailing piece cost, tooling, capital investment, validation, timing, implementation risk, and annualized net savings.
Execution & Coordination: Coordinate feasibility studies, design changes, sourcing inputs, validation plans, and engineering implementation schedules.
Pipeline Tracking: Track the opportunity pipeline from ideation through approval, validation, engineering release, and realized savings.
Technical Reviews: Support teardown analysis, should-cost modeling, design-to-value (DtV) reviews, and lessons-learned documentation.
Executive Communication: Present design recommendations, trade-offs, risk mitigation strategies, and decision requirements to program leadership.
Key Deliverables & Success Measures
Validated cost and mass reduction opportunities
Approved cross-functional business cases
Clear, no-regret technical trade-off decisions
On-time engineering release and implementation
Realized financial savings while protecting vehicle quality and performance
Value Optimization Engineer in auburn hills at Unknown Company
This position is listed as full time and onsite.