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Cost Engineer_HC

CompanyBosch Group
LocationWuxi
Work ModeOn Site
PostedMay 27, 2026
About The Company
The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 413,000 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2025). The company generated sales of 91 billion euros in 2025. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. With its business activities, the company aims to use technology to help shape universal trends such as automation, electrification, digitalization, connectivity, and an orientation to sustainability. In this context, Bosch’s broad diversification across regions and industries strengthens its innovativeness and robustness. Bosch uses its proven expertise in sensor technology, software, and services to offer customers cross-domain solutions from a single source. It also applies its expertise in connectivity and artificial intelligence in order to develop and manufacture user-friendly, sustainable products. With technology that is “Invented for life,” Bosch wants to help improve quality of life and conserve natural resources. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 500 subsidiary and regional companies in over 60 countries. Including sales and service partners, Bosch’s global manufacturing, engineering, and sales network covers nearly every country in the world. Bosch’s innovative strength is key to the company’s further development. At 136 locations across the globe, Bosch employs some 82,000 associates in research and development. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boschglobal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BoschGlobal Glassdoor: https://bit.ly/3raTZnH Imprint: www.bosch.com/corporate-information Privacy statement: https://www.bosch.com/data-protection-notice-bosch-linkedin/
About the Role

Company Description

Do you want beneficial technologies being shaped by your ideas? Whether in the areas of mobility solutions, consumer goods, industrial technology or energy and building technology - with us, you will have the chance to improve quality of life all across the globe. Welcome to Bosch.

Job Description

What awaits you with us:

As an experienced Cost Engineer, you will be a central interface, supporting product responsible, project/module teams, and purchasing in making our products even more successful in the market through an optimized cost structure. You support continuously improving the competitiveness of our products across the entire product lifecycle.

Your Mission – Challenges that will inspire you:

  • The Cost Analyst: You'll dive deep into component and product costs, conduct thorough cost analyses and competitor benchmarks. Using state-of-the-art tools and methods, lead successful cost workshops and you'll uncover optimization potential.
  • The Disassembler & Improver: You'll get hands-on with component deep dives. You'll disassemble parts, understand technical concepts in detail, derive manufacturing concepts, and set up bottom-up cost structures to identify cost drivers.
  • The Presenter & Impetus Provider: You'll convincingly present your results and concrete cost improvement proposals to stakeholders, business unit management, and the HC board. Subsequently, you'll hand over the findings to the stakeholders for further cost work and cost optimization.
  • Design-to-Cost: From early concept phase you bring transparency to development. With cost analyses, product benchmark inputs, and your own innovative ideas, you support engineering in achieving target costs early on.
  • The Strategic Purchasing Partner: You assist purchasing with profound cost analysis and transparency. Your goal is to ensure "best cost at launch," identify further cost potential for series parts, analyze supplier processes and actively support negotiations.
  • The Target Cost Navigator: You support the derivation of target costs for complex HVAC systems and their breakdown into appliances, system components, and modules – always based on performed benchmarks.
  • Cross-functional collaboration & communication: You’ll work in a global, cross-functional environment. You cooperate and communicate across all HC levels with business/product owners and project teams. You’ll translate complex cost challenges into compelling, data-backed improvement proposals.

Qualifications

What you bring – Your profile that convinces us:

  • Education: A completed degree (Master's/Bachelor's/Diploma) with a technical focus or in industrial engineering forms your strong foundation.
  • Experience and Knowledge: You bring several years of professional experience in cost analysis / management and benchmarking. In-depth technical and cost-related expertise in mechanical, hydraulic, and electronic systems is an advantage.
  • Qualifications: profound knowledge in cost analysis. Modern tools and methods of cost engineering, design-to-cost, and target costing are well known.
  • Personality and Working Practice: You are a true team player with a results-oriented and entrepreneurial mindset. Your hands-on mentality, coupled with strong analytical skills, enables you to operate successfully both conceptually and operationally. Excellent communication, coordination, and presentation skills complete your profile.
  • Work Routine: you collaborate with international and intercultural teams and are willing to travel for your assignments.
  • Languages: very good English and local language skills (both written and spoken) are a given for you.
  • Legal Entity: Bosch ThermoTechnology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
  • Key Skills
    Cost AnalysisBenchmarkingDesign-to-CostTarget CostingManufacturing ConceptsTechnical Cost EngineeringStakeholder ManagementCross-functional CollaborationAnalytical SkillsPresentation SkillsMechanical Systems ExpertiseHydraulic Systems ExpertiseElectronic Systems ExpertiseIndustrial EngineeringCost OptimizationSupplier Process Analysis
    Categories
    EngineeringManufacturingFinance & AccountingManagement & LeadershipData & Analytics
    Job Information
    📋Core Responsibilities
    The Cost Engineer acts as a central interface to optimize product cost structures through deep-dive analyses, competitor benchmarking, and the implementation of design-to-cost strategies. They collaborate with purchasing and engineering teams to ensure best cost at launch and identify continuous improvement potentials across the product lifecycle.
    📋Job Type
    full time
    📊Experience Level
    5-10
    💼Company Size
    159206
    📊Visa Sponsorship
    No
    💼Language
    English
    🏢Working Hours
    40 hours
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