Project Cost Engineer

MAHLE GmbH; Ciudad Juárez; Presencial; MXN 600.000 - 900.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

MAHLE GmbH in Juárez, MX is seeking a Project Controlling professional to own unit project costing (FACTON) and cost calculation across programs. You will partner with the Program Manager and cross-functional teams to align bottom-up costing with product designs and commercial boundaries set with customers.

Responsibilities include maintaining costing databases, providing timely financial analysis for monthly and quarterly reporting, monitoring financial risks, and supporting cost-improvement

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, industrial engineering or finance required.
• 7+ years of related financial work experience in manufacturing.
• High proficiency with MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Experience with FACTON, SAP or similar systems.
• Ability to define and solve problems, collect data, and draw valid conclusions.
• Must be fluent in English.

Responsabilidades

• Manage, coordinate, and lead commercial aspects in the program acquisition and development phase.
• Collaborate with Sales, Product Engineering, Project Purchasing, and other functions to align costing with designs and customer boundaries.
• Maintain costing database for materials, parts, labor, overhead, CAPEX, tooling, etc.
• Provide timely financial analysis for monthly and quarterly reporting and program gate reviews.
• Monitor financial risks and implement mitigation actions.
• Drive financial success of programs and support cost-improvement activities.

Conocimientos

MS Office

FACTON

SAP

Data queries

English fluent

Leadership

Educación

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering or Finance

MBA Preferred

Herramientas

FACTON

SAP

Descripción del empleo

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Together, we move the world—we’ve been doing it for over 100 years. At MAHLE, as a leading international development partner and systems supplier to the automotive industry, we pursue the objective of making mobility more efficient, more environmentally friendly, more convenient, and more economical. As part of our dual strategy, we are working both on the intelligent combustion engine for the use of hydrogen and other nonfossil fuels and on technologies for fuel cells and e-mobility.

MAHLE generated sales of €11.3 billion in 2025. Employing just under 65,000 people at 127 production locations and 11 technology centers, the company is represented in 28 countries. (as at: 12/31/2025). Join our MAHLE team! #weshapefuturemobility

Position is part of the Project and R&D Controlling team.

Primary propose for this position is unit product costing (FACTON) of the respective project and project cost calculation of the respective project. This is a highly visible, high-impact position where a successful candidate will have the opportunity to demonstrate leadership in driving program financial success for the portfolio projects.

Your Role & Responsibilities:

• Manage, coordinate, and lead the commercial aspects in the Program Acquisition and Development Phase of the project. The successful candidate will partner with the Program Manager to collaborate with Sales, Product Engineering, Project Purchasing, Process Planning/Advanced Manufacturing, Logistics and Plant Management to keep the bottom-up costing aligned to product/process designs and commercial boundaries set with the customer.
• Understand the competitive environment during the acquisition phase, drive alignment on "gap to target" and continuously maintaining the integrity of product costing in each successive price offering to sales.
• Maintain costing database including raw materials, purchased parts, labor/process routings, overhead rates, CAPEX, tooling, etc. through the life cycle of the program.
• Partner with the program manager to provide timely financial analysis for monthly and quarterly reporting, and at various program gate reviews. This includes monitoring of financial risks, risk mitigation actions, and improvement opportunities.
• Participate in management discussions on program financials and partner with the program manager to drive financial success of programs (Achieve Financial KPIs).
• Provide costing support for cost improvement activities.

Your Skills & Strengths:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering or Finance, MBA Preferred.
• 7+ years of related financial work experience in a manufacturing environment.
• High proficiency in using MS Office software (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Experience with FACTON, SAP or similar systems, project management, multi-tasking and developing/executing data queries is preferred.
• Ability to define and solve problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Must be fluent in English

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Facts about the job

Entry level: Experienced hires

Part- / Full-time: Full Time

Functional area: Controlling

Department: BU2 Thermal and Fluid Systems

Location: Juárez, MX

Your future at MAHLE

As a team player and someone who thinks ahead, you can deploy all your skills with us. In cooperation with colleagues from different countries and areas, you contribute in designing the mobility of the future. When selecting MAHLE, you choose trend-setting technologies and strategies. Are you interested in working with us and developing efficient and environmentally-friendly solutions, optimising existing products, and turning innovative ideas into reality? Then MAHLE is the right address for you.