Cost Engineer in the Netherlands

• A salary between € 4,500 and € 5,500 gross per month, depending on experience
• A full-time position in day shifts
• 27 vacation days and 13 ADV days
• Annual profit sharing
• A good pension scheme according to the Metalektro collective labor agreement (CAO)
• Travel allowance
• Plenty of room for training and development
• The chance to help shape a new role within VDL Jansen
• Working within a stable family business with a long-term vision
• Fun staff activities, team outings, and the annual VDL party

What will you do?

As a Cost Engineer, you are responsible for setting up, managing, and improving the cost structure of our products and systems. You ensure that costs are reliable, up-to-date, and well-substantiated. In doing so, you provide direct input for selling prices, margins, and strategic decisions. This is not a role in which you only perform calculations. Instead, you will play an important role in further professionalizing and automating the costing process within VDL Jansen. You will interact daily with colleagues from Engineering, Purchasing, Supply Chain, Production, and Management. As a result, you are right in the middle of the organization and have influence on much more than just numbers. Your responsibilities include:

In this role, you are the connecting link between technology, data, and commerce.

• Preparing and maintaining cost calculations for products and systems
• Analyzing material, production, and purchasing costs
• Translating costs into selling prices and margins
• Developing and improving calculation models and automations
• Identifying deviations and opportunities for cost savings
• Setting up management information, analyses, and reports
• Collaborating with various departments to collect reliable data and improve processes
• Analyzing post-calculations and historical data to further improve future calculations

You love structure, numbers, and technology. You enjoy delving into processes and get energy from improving systems and working methods. At the same time, you do not lose sight of practical application. You do not need to be a specialist in everything, but you do understand how production, purchasing, and engineering are interconnected. Additionally, you recognize yourself in the following:

Are you someone who brings technology, data, and costs together? And does it seem interesting to you to further build up and professionalize Cost Engineering within VDL Jansen? Then we would love to meet you!

At VDL Groep, we believe in personal contact with our candidates. Therefore, we handle the recruitment and selection for this vacancy ourselves and only make use of selected recruitment partners with whom agreements have been made. Do we receive an unsolicited CV via this vacancy anyway? Then we will treat this as a direct application from the candidate. This does not create any mediation or placement agreement. Thank you for your understanding and interest in VDL Groep.