Job Description

Yazaki es el líder mundial en la investigación, desarrollo y suministro de soluciones de poder y datos de la Industria Automotriz.

Yazaki trabaja con cada una de las armadoras de vehículos más importantes del mundo y siempre nos hemos esforzado por mantener un crecimiento estratégico y estable durante nuestros 83 años de historia. Actualmente buscamos talento con fuerte potencial de desempeño y energía capaz de fortalecer y generar el ambiente de trabajo positivo que nos enorgullece.

Supervisor of the costing functions and oversees the work output of the cost estimators.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Supervise Team

• Ensure that team structure and staffing levels are in line with business requirements
• Hire and work with team to improve their skills and competencies, using feedback, coaching, motivation, and mentoring techniques
• Implement associate development tools, including objective setting and the performance review process
• Ensure training needs are identified and met
• Ensure the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of effective, efficient, and common processes, procedures, and methodologies
• Ensure data is collected, analyzed and corrective actions implemented for team metrics
• Provide regular communication to the team on administrative issues and policies
• Assist HR with resolution of compliance, safety, integrity concerns, or grievances within team
• Support long-range and short-term group forecasts, goals, objectives, and priorities
• Prepare and maintain updated job descriptions ensuring functions are aligned with processes and procedures
• Resolve customer and internal issues to facilitate implementation of group objectives and achieve customer satisfaction

Costing Tool

• Coordinate cost model validation, review outputs and challenge as necessary
• Implement, improve, and maintain labor time standards for customers
• Audit the accuracy of the applicable costing/pricing tool
• Support tool implementation, enhancements, or replacements
• Ensure quote standards and cost masters for factory cost forecasts are properly set up each semester
• Ensure quote standards and price masters for customer quotations are properly set up based on customer criteria

Program Support

• Lead and coordinate material prices and labor minutes for customer negotiations and support as necessary
• Attend and support key internal/external project meetings

Costing

• Manage cost estimating teamwork load
• Facilitate support of BOM reconciliation activity
• Participate in new RFQ kick-off meetings and support the commercial review of the quote package
• Coordinate cost estimating needs for quoting activities with pertinent functional groups
• Challenge existing and developing new methods/interfaces to ensure a consistent, efficient and accurate cost estimating process
• Calculate wire harness tooling as required
• Manage price and cost accuracy in the costing tool
• Write and maintain work instructions and process flows for the system level procedures related to the costing / pricing department functions.
• Investigate and resolve quote inquiries from functional groups

REQUIREMENTS

Degree Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Engineering or equivalent

Certification Requirements:

N/A

Previous Experience:

Minimum 5 years experience in automotive electrical distribution systems

Minimum 5 years experience with blueprints, wire harness cost estimating and customer knowledge

Supervisory experience preferred

Travel Requirements:

Minimal - based on business unit or customer need

Language:

English B1+

Application/Software:

Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint), BEAMS, GCT, GPDB

Declaración de igualdad de oportunidades de empleo.

Yazaki está comprometido con ofrecer igualdad de oportunidades de trabajo para todos sin importar raza, color, religión, sexo, edad, estado civil, nacionalidad de origen, discapacidad, capacidades diferentes o cualquier otra característica legalmente protegida. La igualdad de oportunidades se extiende a todos los aspectos de la relación de trabajo. Yazaki cumple cabalmente con la ley estatal y federal de igualdad de oportunidades de empleo y se esfuerza por mantener el lugar de trabajo libre de cualquier tipo de acoso.