Job Description

The Senior Value Optimization Engineer – Chassis will lead technical cost reduction and value optimization initiatives across chassis systems and components while ensuring performance, safety, quality, and customer experience are fully maintained.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead identification, benchmarking, budgeting, and tracking of technical cost reduction initiatives for chassis systems and components

• Define and support cost target setting and ensure delivery against approved objectives

• Generate, evaluate, and approve ideas to reduce material and system costs without compromising performance, safety, or customer experience

• Lead initial engineering feasibility studies, competitive benchmarking, and technical disposition of new cost-saving ideas

• Analyze chassis designs, materials, and manufacturing processes to identify value optimization opportunities

• Lead benchmarking and standardization activities across chassis systems, including:

  • A2MAC teardown reviews

  • Part and system benchmarking

  • Vehicle hoist and teardown evaluations

• Drive standardization strategies across platforms and regions

• Coordinate and lead idea generation activities via supplier submissions, internal engineering workshops, and benchmarking events

• Act as a key technical interface with global counterparts to maximize cross-regional sharing of cost-reduction ideas and best practices

• Present regional and global cost reduction results, including detailed subsystem-level reporting

• Partner with PC&CO, Purchasing, Finance, and Suppliers to drive value optimization initiatives

• Define and provide metafunction budget requirements to PC&CO for Global Finance (COO) approval

• Lead and optimize Value Optimization tools (eVOS, MCM, etc.) across all regions

• Establish and govern common VO methods, processes, and tools

• Own and track VO KPIs (status vs. target dashboards)

• Ensure compliance with Internal Control System (ICS) requirements

• Ensure all VO-driven chassis system and component changes meet performance, durability, safety, and regulatory requirements

• Provide technical leadership to ensure changes are robust through design, validation, and production

• Support system and component benchmarking activities for cost engineering and technical decision-making

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Manufacturing from an ABET-accredited university

• 8+ years of experience in automotive chassis systems within design, release, manufacturing, or cost engineering roles

• Strong expertise in chassis system architecture and hardware (suspension, steering, braking, subframes, structural components)

• Proven experience across the full product lifecycle

• Solid background in activity-based costing, cost modeling, and/or quoting

• Proficiency in NX and Teamcenter

• Strong ability to analyze designs and processes to identify cost reduction opportunities

• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills

• High proficiency in English (spoken and written)

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Previous Design & Release experience in chassis systems

• Strong supplier and negotiation experience

• Experience working in global, cross-functional environments

• Knowledge of Shainin Red X or other reactive quality tools

• Knowledge of Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) or other proactive quality methodologies

• Experience with Lean Product Development principles

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.