Cost Engineer

Cost Engineer

Will you be our new colleague?

Cost Engineer

Function group

Research and Development

Barneveld

40 hours

Your role

We are looking for a Cost Engineer! As a Cost Engineer at Moba, you will play a key role in creating cost transparency and ensuring competitiveness within our product portfolio. Do you have technical expertise and business acumen, and would you like to contribute to strategic decisions in design, production, and sourcing? Then we would like to invite you for an introductory meeting!

For over 75 years, Moba has been creating total solutions for sorting, packaging, and processing eggs that are sold all over the world. Over the years, Moba has grown into a global market leader with systems in 111 different countries, processing over 1 billion eggs every day. From design, development, production, and installation to service, it all happens in Barneveld.

As a Cost Engineer, you play a key role in ensuring comprehensive cost transparency and competitiveness within our product portfolio. You develop cost models, analyze design changes, and support data-driven decisions that balance functionality, quality, and costs to influence portfolio, design, production, purchasing, and logistics choices.

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys combining technical insights with business thinking in a dynamic, product-oriented environment.

A selection of the activities:

Developing integrated cost calculation and design-to-cost competencies:

• Developing processes and standardized methods to ensure consistency in cost calculation and integrated cost reporting.

• Using industry-standard tools (e.g., FACTON, aPriori, or similar) to support these processes.

• Developing standardized reports (templates/tools) to assess the current situation and compare costs.

• Increasing cost awareness in the design process and helping teams make better decisions at an early stage.

• Analyzing actual costs and identifying initiatives and opportunities for cost optimization of our portfolio.

Supporting product development projects:

• Provide early-stage cost feedback to support strategic and architectural choices that support realistic cost targets.

• Collaborate with R&D and manufacturing engineering during the development process to assess the costs of design and production choices.

• Support make-or-buy, sourcing, and investment decisions.

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Good working conditions

What you get from us

• You will receive

  An excellent salary;

• You will receive

  27 vacation days and 13 scheduled days off;

• You will receive

  A fixed year-end bonus of 10% and vacation allowance of 8%;

• You will receive

  Flexibility to set your own working hours and a work-from-home arrangement;

• You will receive

  Excellent collective labor agreement; we participate in the Metalektro collective labor agreement;

• You will receive

  A cross-functional role with strong visibility within engineering, sourcing, and management;

• You will receive

  The opportunity to shape Moba's cost engineering framework and digital costing tools;

• You will receive

  A collaborative team focused on continuous improvement;

• You will receive

  Extensive training and development opportunities;

• You will receive

  Excellent pension plan (PME);

• You will receive

  Various secondary employment conditions such as a national company fitness plan in the Netherlands and various group insurance policies;

• You will receive

  Additional activities such as monthly drinks and an active staff association.

What we ask of you

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Production Engineering, or a comparable technical field;
• 3-6 years of experience in cost engineering, product costing, or manufacturing engineering within a similar environment;
• Strong understanding of manufacturing and assembly processes (e.g., machining, casting, injection molding, assembly) and ability to identify key cost drivers in low-volume equipment manufacturing;
• Knowledge of value analysis/value engineering (VA/VE) or should-costing principles;
• Experience with cost estimation, data analysis, and ERP tools (e.g., aPriori, FACTON, MS Dynamics, internal cost models);
• Familiarity with CAD/PLM systems (e.g., Windchill, Creo);
• Familiarity with configurable products (CTO) and variant management in engineering.

Working at Moba

Can you see yourself working at Moba?

Who are you ?

• You are a team player and demonstrate Moba's core values: ownership, innovation, and collaboration.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail;
• You are someone who communicates clearly and confidently and who can effectively convey complex information between different departments and levels within the organization;
• You bring structure and insight to discussions, focus on the core of the issue, and encourage decision-making.

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1. Your information

Moba

Headquarters

Stationsweg 117 3771 VE Barneveld Netherlands

Headquarters

Stationsweg 117 3771 VE Barneveld Netherlands

Contact

Jens de Vries

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