# Cost Engineer – Stampings & Welded Assemblies

**Company**: Ford
**Location**: Naucalpan de Juarez, MEX
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

Ford of Mexico is seeking a Cost Engineer – Stampings & Welded Assemblies in Naucalpan de Juarez, MEX, Mexico. This is a hybrid role.

As a Cost Engineer, you will serve as the financial conscience of vehicle programs by developing, analyzing, and validating should-cost models, piece-part costing, and total cost of ownership analyses across components, systems, and full vehicle programs.

Responsibilities:

- Develop, analyze, and validate should-cost models, piece-part costing, and total cost of ownership analyses.

- Partner with engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain teams to uncover cost-reduction opportunities without compromising quality, safety, or performance.

- Build detailed cost breakdowns and benchmarking analyses to equip negotiators with the insight needed to secure the best value from the supply base.

- Conduct competitive teardown and benchmarking studies to compare materials, manufacturing processes, and design choices.

- Build and defend should-cost models from the ground up to validate supplier quotes and strengthen negotiation leverage.

- Bridge finance and engineering, acting as the translator between technical teams and business leaders.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, Mechanical/Mechatronics Engineering, or related degree.

- 3+ years of work experience with automotive suppliers or any other OEM.

- Cost analysis or manufacturing cost engineering experience, automotive or manufacturing industry strongly preferred.

- Solid knowledge and experience in Manufacturing Processes.

- Understanding of main concepts of Lean Manufacturing.

- Advanced English.

- User level for Teamcenter or any other viewer for viewing 2D Drawings or 3D Models; CATIA.

- Analytical Skills: Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Data analytics.

Your Operating System:

- Ability to work in a globally culturally diverse team.

- Effective & Clear communication, presentation skills.

- Leadership, learning agility, proactivity, preventive approach, adaptability under ambiguity, results-driven mindset & Curiosity.

- A sharp analytical mind paired with the communication skills to make complex cost data accessible to cross-functional teams.

- Precision Under Pressure, program deadlines don't wait for perfect data.

- Teamwork and interpersonal skills particularly to deal positively with multiple simultaneous competing priorities from different stakeholders.

- Bias Toward Action, don't just flag a cost problem , you bring options, trade-offs, and a recommendation.

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## Skills

### Required
- industrial engineering
- Mechanical/Mechatronics Engineering
- cost analysis
- manufacturing cost engineering
- Lean Manufacturing
- Teamcenter
- CATIA
- Microsoft Excel
- Data analytics

### Nice to have
- advanced English

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