Senior Cost Engineer

Commutable from North or West London / Greater London / Surrey / Berkshire / Hertfordshire / Buckinghamshire

A world-class engineering and manufacturing business with an exceptional global reputation is looking to appoint a Cost & Pricing Business Partner to join its growing team. Known internationally for technical excellence, innovation, and long-term stability, this organisation supplies highly engineered products into critical global markets and continues to invest heavily in both its people and operational capability.

This role offers a unique opportunity for someone with strong engineering, manufacturing, production, or costing experience to move into a commercially influential position at the heart of major operational and business decisions.

Although the role sits within the Finance function, the business is specifically looking for individuals who understand how products are built, manufactured, routed, costed, and delivered.

The hiring manager is particularly keen to speak with candidates from backgrounds such as:

• Production Engineering
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Project Controls
• Operations Analysis

Especially individuals who have been involved in:

• Manufacturing costing
• BOM analysis
• Routings and labour standards
• Operational analysis
• ERP/SAP costing
• Bid support or estimating activity
• Cost reduction or variance analysis

The Opportunity

You’ll play a key role in developing robust, data-driven cost models that support customer proposals, pricing strategies, and business decision-making across complex engineering programmes. The position combines analytical problem-solving with operational understanding and commercial influence.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and maintaining structured pricing and cost models
• Validating manufacturing and operational cost assumptions
• Analysing BOMs, routings, labour standards, and production cost drivers
• Supporting bid and proposal activity through detailed cost justification
• Conducting actual vs estimate variance analysis and post-award reviews
• Working closely with Supply Chain to assess supplier costing and negotiation opportunities
• Identifying commercial, operational, and compliance risks within pricing models
• Supporting continuous improvement of costing procedures, operational analysis, and ERP data integrity

What They’re Looking For

• Experience with in manufacturing, aerospace, defence, automotive, rail, MRO, or complex engineering environments
• Strong understanding of production or manufacturing processes
• Exposure to costing, estimating, pricing models, project controls, or operational analysis
• Understanding of BOMs, routings, labour standards, and manufacturing cost drivers
• Advanced Excel capability including structured modelling and data analysis
• Experience extracting and interpreting ERP or SAP cost data
• Strong communication skills with the ability to challenge assumptions and influence stakeholders

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to join a globally respected engineering organisation with an outstanding reputation for innovation, quality, and long-term stability. For engineers or commercially minded analysts looking to broaden their impact and move into a strategic operational/commercial role, this is an outstanding opportunity.