Cost Engineer
Airbus
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Job summary
Airbus Defence and Space Limited in Stevenage or Portsmouth is seeking a Cost Engineer to support bid activities. The role focuses on collating, modelling and analysing cost and price data to establish robust quotation baselines for EOS studies, proposals and future projects.
You will drive the estimation process, balance price-to-win with design-to-cost considerations and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure competitive, compliant proposals and successful outcomes.
Qualifications
- Experience in cost engineering and financial modelling within bidding or acquisitions.
- Ability to collate and analyse cost/price data for quotation baselining.
- Experience coordinating bid preparation with multi-disciplinary teams.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and lead cost engineering activities for studies, proposals, and EOS projects.
- Collate, model, and analyse cost and price data to establish accurate quotation baselines.
- Coordinate bid preparation with stakeholders to ensure competitive offers.
- Lead the estimation process balancing price-to-win, design-to-cost, value for money, profitability and liquidity targets.
- Participate in engineering decisions to ensure cost-efficient EOSX product development.
- Manage timely preparation and submission of financial proposals, supporting schedule, cost and risk management through to customer acceptance.
Skills
Job description
Must have or be able to obtain SC Security Clearance
Stevenage or Portsmouth (with some hybrid working available subject to our Hybrid Working Policy)
Full time
Financial Reward: Competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension, share options, car leasing scheme, free onsite parking, season ticket loan, tax-free technology scheme, discounted shopping and much more
Work / Life Balance: 37 hour week, flexible working around core hours, hybrid working, up to 2 additional days per month as TOIL, option to buy/sell holiday. There are no core hours on Friday afternoons. Employees may use this flexibility at their discretion, provided they fulfil their contractual working hours and meet business needs (such as urgent deadlines or client requirements)
Personal Development: Personalised development plan, Airbus Leadership University and unlimited access to 10,000+ E-learning courses, internal mobility including international opportunities
Health & Wellbeing: Wellbeing benefits (including 24/7 online GP and mental health support), Employee Assistance Programme, discounted family health / dental insurance / eye tests, cycle-to-work scheme
Family and Caregiving: Life assurance, enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave and caregiving
Inclusive Environment: Wellbeing room, Multi-faith room, Employee Representative Groups (Gender, LGBTQ+, International, Generational, Disability, Social & Cultural Diversity, Neurodiversity)
Our world is changing. And so are we. From our commitment to zero-carbon flight (#ZEROe) to cleaning up space, sustainability is at the heart of our purpose. So, what's your next change?
Airbus Defence and Space is looking for a Cost Engineer to join our team in Stevenage to support business acquisition and drive cost engineering activities for studies, proposals, and future projects.
Working as a key member of the bid team, your core focus will be the collation, modelling, and analysis of cost and price data to establish robust quotation baselines, ensuring the absolute competitiveness of our future projects.
- 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.
- 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.
Not a 100% match? No worries! Airbus supports your personal growth with customised development solutions.
Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need and we’ll always do our best to accommodate your request.
Please let us know if you need us to make any adjustments for the selection process - you can share this with your Talent Acquisition Partner if you are invited to interview. Examples may include (but not exclusive to) accessible facilities; auxiliary aids; room layout, etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.
As a Disability Confident Employer, Airbus UK will offer an interview to any applicant that considers themselves to have a disability or long-term condition and meets the minimum criteria of the role (as set out in the job advert). To 'opt in', just select the option during your application submission and our Talent Acquisition team will contact you
Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.
Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com.
At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.
AIRBUS Defence and Space Limited
Permanent
Professional
Costing
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