Valve Costing Leader

5 months ago

Stafford, United Kingdom Renewable Energy Grid Solutions Full time

**Job Description Summary**: Become part of a winning team and help to deliver the Green Energy transition.

Accountable to deliver the offer and costing for valves product with specific focus on competitivity and technical acceptability, in line with the bidding strategy.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide cost estimates for the valve product (HVDC and FACTS)
- Monitor and review costing data to detect and assess problems and make recommendations to resolve issues
- Ensure strong coordination between all roles involved for timely preparation of good quality technical valve offer and costing.
- Monitor Costs and assessed against baseline reference solution target cost.
- Properly benchmark and challenge any cost which does not compare with target cost to avoid both over and under estimation.
- Monitor and report valve cost progress throughout the tender process.
- Provide reports on actual costs versus the reference costs and identify underlying reasons for any variance and proposed resolutions.
- Manage / maintain the valve costing tool and all associated inputs and outputs.
- Close alignment with Engineering on the valve design and associated Solidity
- Agree manufacturing schedule and ensure that the product can be delivered in line with project schedule.
- Align with the manufacturing teams to ensure availability of manufacturing capacity in line with the project need.
- Monitor manufacturing costs against reference solution standard cost.
- Own the costing process.
- Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice, cost estimating vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve operational performance in valve costing.
- Ensure a robust cost estimating process in place to meet production/project requirements and in line with quality standards.
- Ensure consistent cost management processes are applied in the business, working closely with Engineering, sourcing, manufacturing, NPI, Solution Owner and procurement.
- Ensure that the project if awarded will be executable without time nor cost slippage.
- Work closely with Engineering to support continuous improvement through cost engineering techniques and processes, identifying inefficiencies and cost optimisation opportunities.
- Establish the sourcing strategy in collaboration with technical and commercial teams.
- Coordinate with PDG Sourcing to ensure purchasing terms and conditions as well as contract conditions are applied and suppliers pre-qualified.
- Review total cost of ownership, firming provisions and assumptions and supplier selection.

Qualifications & Desired Experience:

- Degree in Electronics / Electrical / Automation engineering or related field.
- Excellent experience in project management: planning, tracking, reporting.
- In depth knowledge about Engineering Tools & Processes
- Good knowledge of Control design, communication protocols and networks, IEDs (Intelligent Electronics Devices), preferably in substation/power plant environment.
- Excellent analytical & critical thinking mindset
- Problem-solving skills.
- Exceptional communication skills
- Conflict management skills
- Influencing skills
- Lean and Continuous Improvement mindset
- Availability to travel ~10% of time
- Understand business and market dynamics
- Provide leadership during the deal reviews and tender review process by addressing any concern and by elaborating solutions.
- Hand over won deals to OTR valves stakeholders.
- Captures return of experience in execution and feedback into tendering activities

**The North Europe Grid System Integration (GSI) team delivers a wide range of turnkey high voltage AC and DC transmission projects to its Customers in the UK, Ireland, and Scandinavia.**

**Grid Solutions, a GE Renewable Energy business, serves customers globally with over 13,000 employees. We provide power utilities and industries worldwide with equipment, systems and services to bring power reliably and efficiently from the point of generation to end power consumers. Grid Solutions is focused on addressing the challenges of the energy transition by enabling the safe and reliable connection of renewable and distributed energy resources to the grid. We electrify the world with advanced grid technologies and accelerate the energy transition.**

**About GE Grid Solutions**:
At GE Grid Solutions we are electrifying the world with advanced grid technologies. As leaders in the energy space our goal is to accelerate the transition for a more energy efficient grid to full fill the needs of tomorrow. With a focus on growth and sustainability GE Grid Solutions plays a pivotable role in integrating Renewables onto the grid to drive to carbon neutral. In Grid Solutions we help enable the transition for a greener more reliable Grid. GE Grid Solutions has the most advanced and comprehensive product and solutions portfolio within the energy sector.

**Why we come to work**:
At GE Renewable Energy, our engineers are always up for the challenge

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