Technical Costing Analyst

Description

At AKG, we believe great people build great products. We are looking for dependable, safety-focused team members who want to grow their skills and be part of a company that values teamwork, accountability, respect, and continuous improvement.

If you enjoy hands-on work, problem-solving, and working with precision equipment in a manufacturing environment, we encourage you to apply. We will train you...

• Competitive pay based on experience
• Shift differential opportunities
• GREAT Medical, dental, and vision benefits the first of the month after 30 days
• Company Paid Life Insurance, STD insurance and LTD insurance
• PTO and paid holidays
• 401(k) with amazing company match
• Training and advancement opportunities
• Stable manufacturing environment
• Employee recognition programs
• Team-oriented culture focused on safety and respect

The Technical Costing Analyst develops technically accurate, traceable, and commercially sound product-cost estimates for customer quotations, new products, engineering changes, sourcing decisions, and ongoing production. The role translates engineering designs and manufacturing requirements into documented material, labor, machine, overhead, tooling, purchased-component, outside-processing, packaging, and logistics assumptions.

The analyst partners with Engineering, Sales, Purchasing, Production Planning, Manufacturing, and Finance to maintain accurate product-costing data in SAP, reconcile quoted, standard, and actual costs, identify potential margin erosion, and support value-engineering and cost-reduction activities.

The position serves as the technical validator of product-cost assumptions. SAP calculates the result; the analyst validates the physical and commercial assumptions that drive the calculation.

• Develop detailed product-cost estimates from engineering drawings, specifications, bills of materials, manufacturing concepts, customer requirements, and forecasted production volumes.
• Establish documented assumptions for material usage, scrap, yield, labor content, machine time, tooling, outside processing, purchased components, packaging, freight, overhead, and other applicable cost elements.
• Critically evaluate and challenge costing inputs, including BOM completeness, manufacturing-sequence feasibility, cycle-time assumptions, labor content, scrap and yield factors, tooling requirements, sourcing strategies, and capacity constraints.
• Review product designs and proposed manufacturing processes to identify major cost drivers, manufacturability concerns, missing information, and cost-reduction opportunities.
• Work with Engineering and Manufacturing to define preliminary routings, production methods, cycle-time assumptions, equipment requirements, and process parameters when historical data is unavailable.
• Obtain and validate material and purchased-component pricing with Purchasing, including source, effective date, quantity assumptions, minimum-order requirements, lead times, tooling, and nonrecurring costs.
• Support make-versus-buy, sourcing, production-transfer, and alternative-manufacturing-method analyses.
• Execute and support SAP product-costing and mass-costing activities in accordance with approved Finance and business processes.
• Review costing-related SAP master data, including bills of materials, routings, work centers, activity rates, overhead application, scrap factors, and purchasing information; coordinate correction of identified discrepancies with the responsible owner.
• Monitor standard product costs and investigate significant changes, inconsistencies, or incomplete costing inputs.
• Compare quoted costs, released standard costs, and actual production costs to identify unfavorable variances and potential margin erosion.
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