Senior Product Cost Engineer - Sustaining

Atlas Copco Group; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlas Copco Group, Edwards brand, Bristol UK, seeks a Senior Product Cost Engineer - Sustaining to drive cost-reduction initiatives across mechanical and/or electrical components. You will design, validate, and release changes that reduce cost while upholding safety, quality, and compliance.

Reporting to the Associate Principal Engineer – Mechanical Design, you will collaborate with Manufacturing, Supply Chain and suppliers to ensure robust, manufacturable solutions.

Qualifications

• Engineering Degree (Bachelor) is essential, Masters desirable.
• Registered Chartered Engineer or pursuing registration is desirable.
• Hands-on engineering design changes to products or components in manufacturing or product-based environment.
• Experience identifying and implementing cost-reduction or value-engineering opportunities.
• Experience working with manufacturing teams and suppliers to implement changes into production.
• Strong practical engineering capability to design, modify, and release mechanical/electrical components.
• Strong collaboration, influencing, and communication skills for cross-functional work.

Responsibilities

• Deliver released engineering design changes that reduce the cost of Edwards products and components (mechanical and/or electrical).
• Identify and convert cost reduction opportunities into implemented engineering solutions with realised savings.
• Own engineering design output for cost reduction initiatives (models, drawings, specs, BOMs).
• Demonstrate acceptable lower-cost solutions through analysis, testing, and validation.
• Enable successful implementation of cost reduction changes into production with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and suppliers.
• Address design cost drivers in collaboration with Supply Chain, considering supplier capability and manufacturing processes.
• Maintain engineering accountability for risk, reliability, and compliance of cost reduction changes.

Skills

Engineering design changes

Cost reduction

Supplier collaboration

Manufacturing liaison

Technical communication

Education

Engineering degree (Bachelor)

Masters (desirable)

Chartered Engineer (desirable)

Job description

Senior Product Cost Engineer - Sustaining

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Your role

As a Senior Product Cost Engineer - Sustaining, reporting to the Associate Principal Engineer – Mechanical Design, the Senior Product Cost Engineer is responsible for identifying cost‑reduction opportunities and designing, validating, and implementing engineering changes to mechanical and/or electrical components to deliver realised cost savings, while maintaining required standards for safety, performance, quality, and compliance

You will

• Deliver released engineering design changes that reduce the cost of Edwards products and components (mechanical and/or electrical) while maintaining required standards for safety, performance, quality, and compliance.
• Identify and convert cost reduction opportunities across mechanical and electrical components into implemented engineering solutions, resulting in released changes and realised savings.
• Own the engineering design output for assigned cost reduction initiatives, producing the required models, drawings, specifications, and Bills of Materials to enable manufacture and release.
• Demonstrate that lower cost mechanical or electrical solutions are acceptable replacements for existing designs, through appropriate analysis, testing, trials, and validation.
• Enable successful implementation of cost reduction changes into production by working with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and external suppliers to ensure solutions are robust, manufacturable, and repeatable.
• Address design driven cost drivers in collaboration with Supply Chain, ensuring engineering decisions appropriately reflect supplier capability, manufacturing processes, and sourcing options.
• Maintain engineering accountability for risk, reliability, and compliance associated with cost reduction changes, ensuring savings are achieved without introducing unacceptable technical, safety, or operational risk.

To succeed, you will need

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. We value diverse experiences and perspectives and are excited to see what you bring to the role.

• Engineering Degree Bachelors (minimum, essential), Masters (desirable), or demonstrable equivalent.
• Registered Chartered Engineer, or working towards and committed to achieving registration with a recognised engineering institution (desirable)
• Experience delivering hands‑on engineering design changes to products or components in a manufacturing or product‑based environment. Including designing, validating, and releasing engineering changes (Essential).
• Experience identifying and implementing cost‑reduction or value‑engineering opportunities through practical engineering solutions (Essential).
• Experience working directly with manufacturing teams and suppliers to implement engineering changes into production. (Essential).
• Strong practical engineering capability with the ability to design, modify, and release mechanical and/or electrical components. (Essential).
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills when working across Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, and suppliers. (Essential).
• Clear written and verbal communication skills suitable for technical discussions and engineering change justification. (Essential).

In return, we offer

• Culture of trust and accountability
• Lifelong learning and career growth
• Innovation powered by people
• Comprehensive compensation and benefits
• Health and well-being

Job location

This role offers a hybrid working arrangement, allowing you to split your time between working remotely and being on-site at our officein Bristol, United Kingdom (GB).

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Information at a Glance

Edwards is a leader in the vacuum and abatement markets. The brand’s products are essential for industries such as semiconductor, power generation, chemical and food processing. Edwards believes in working with customers to set new standards and creating environments where innovation thrives. This trailblazer prides itself on making a difference in areas that are intrinsic to people’s everyday lives – from the medical care they receive to the coffee they drink. Wherever there is vacuum, Edwards can also be found, leading the way. Edwards is a brand within Atlas Copco Group.

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