Value Optimization Engineer

Groupe SEGULA Technologies SA; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Groupe SEGULA Technologies SA is seeking a cost and mass optimization engineer to identify and implement VA/VE opportunities across vehicle systems while preserving performance, durability, safety, manufacturability, regulatory compliance, and customer experience.

You will lead cross-functional workshops, benchmark designs and processes, and build business cases detailing costs, tooling, and savings, ensuring on-time releases and realized financial benefits.

Responsibilities

• Lead VA/VE activities across major automotive domains.
• Benchmark competitor designs, materials, features, specifications, manufacturing processes, and supplier solutions.
• Develop fact-based cost, weight, complexity, and commonization opportunities with clear technical rationale.
• Facilitate structured workshops with Engineering, Purchasing, Finance, Manufacturing, Quality, CAE, Validation, and Tier-1 suppliers.
• Assess proposed design changes against performance, fatigue, NVH, corrosion, safety, homologation, serviceability, and warranty requirements.
• Build robust business cases detailing piece cost, tooling, capital investment, validation, timing, implementation risk, and annualized net savings.
• Coordinate feasibility studies, design changes, sourcing inputs, validation plans, and engineering implementation schedules.
• Track opportunity pipeline from ideation through approval, validation, engineering release, and realized savings.
• Support teardown analysis, should-cost modeling, DtV reviews, and lessons-learned documentation.
• Present design recommendations, trade-offs, risk mitigation strategies, and decision requirements to program leadership.

Job description

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