Baseline Coordinator

2 months ago

Christchurch, United Kingdom Curtiss-Wright Full time

We are looking for a Baseline Coordinator to join our Christchurch, Dorset team

As a Baseline Coordinator, you will be responsible to coordinate with customer facing team to define needs and validation of material costing, including the creation and presentation of relevant documentation for reviews. Develop strategies and implement solutions for most efficient costing/pricing models with an eye to repeatability, considering market factors and eventual risk & reward of offered pricing/terms.

Location: Christchurch, Dorset

We Take Care of Our People

Work-life balance through our Hybrid working, flexitime program and condensed work week (role dependent) I Paid Time Off I Retirement with Employer Match I Health and Wellness Benefits  I Learning and Development Opportunities I Competitive Pay I Bonus Scheme I Recognition I  I *

Your Challenge

The primary responsibility is to support the Business Unit with all cost and pricing aspects of program opportunities, including:

  • Capture engineering Basis of Estimates (BOE)

  • Product cost capture from actuals and/or Product Manager inputs

  • Working with procurement and supply chain as needed to gather and verify material cost basis.

  • Manage and capture costing for any 3rd party items that may be required.

  • Coordinate with customer facing team to define needs and validation of material costing, including the creation and presentation of relevant documentation for reviews.

  • Develop strategies and implement solutions for most efficient costing/pricing models with an eye to repeatability, considering market factors and eventual risk & reward of offered pricing/terms.

  • Support/Lead targeted costing and pricing models/analysis/closed loop analysis (post award actuals compared to bid values) and provide lessons learned and recommendations to the applicable business units.

  • Support the development of process and procedure improvement, taking the lead when needed.

  • Ongoing/timely support to various stakeholders (BU Directors and Managers) as required.

What You Bring

  • Must have superior Excel/Word and PowerPoint skills.

  • Be commercially aware with significant customer facing experience

  • Excellent communication skills (oral and written).

  • Able to work effectively as an individual contributor as well as part of a team, ability to work with cross-functional teams, to follow procedures and use system tools.

  • A self-starter, able to work independently and manage concurrent multiple tasks with dynamic priorities.

  • Demonstrated ability and resourcefulness in solving often ambiguous problems with little supervision.

  • Experience with cost/revenue analysis and audits is considered an asset.

  • Excellent analytical skills to collect data, understand significance and explain issues; able to take initiatives and recommend solutions / process improvements.

  • Good ability to work with integrated ERP systems, preferably SyteLine and / or SAP.

  • Ability to present and defend costing / pricing recommendations to senior leadership.

  • Ability to embrace change with enthusiasm for continuous improvement.

  • A post-secondary diploma/degree from a college or university in Accounting, Finance and/or Business

  • Experience in product cost development and cost analysis.

  • Familiarity with Military and Aerospace market and customer base is desired, but not mandatory.

  • 5-7 years of related experience preferably in a manufacturing or high technology environment; or a combination

Who We Are

Curtiss-Wright's Defense Solution division is a trusted, proven leader, delivering superior products and services that meet the defense and aerospace industries' toughest challenges with best-in-class value. In 2017, Curtiss-Wright relocated its Avionics, Sensors & Controls and Industrial Business Units into a brand new, purpose-built 160,000 ft2 facility at Bournemouth International Airport.

The state-of-the-art facility has extensive design and manufacturing capabilities as well as in-house environmental stress screening. The facility is committed to quality and excellence in manufacturing for our flight recorder, air data computer, video management systems, computing systems, mission displays and video recorder products.

As the design center of excellence for flight recorders and air data computers, the units had to be lightweight and small – crash survivability requirements exceeding the existing standards for commercial aircraft.