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Costing Engineer

Role: Costing Engineer

Reporting to the Director Preliminary Costing Engineer, the Costing Engineer will provide knowledge on new product development across a variety of hard and soft toy categories. The successful candidate will act as an individual contributor, bringing excellence in product cost analysis, supporting cost infrastructure development/ maintenance, and exposing to product cost optimization in the phase of toy development.

 

 

Responsibilities:

1.      Work with internal and external parties as a team in order to achieve identified target costs for new products

2.      Support Prelim Costing Engineer to prepare internal product quotes based on preliminary function description and sketches for new development projects as well as existing products

3.      Liaise with Hong Kong Procurement and China Engineering Office to update materials and components list for new projects as required

4.      Access and maintain companies costing database and component lists

5.      Identify costing operations improvement opportunities under guidance of the Prelim Costing Engineer

 

Qualifications:

1.      ME/IE or equivalent with related intern or summer exposure, preferably in manufacturing industry

2.      Knowledge on continuous product improvement

3.      Strong analytical skills

4.      Knowledge in hard toys tooling, engineering and manufacturing processes

5.      Self-motivated and able to work independently

6.      Displays effective communication skills with employees, suppliers and management

7.      Good command of spoken & written English & Cantonese. Spoken Mandarin is desirable

 

 


$80k + bonus
Southern CA
02/17/2009