Manufacturing Cost Engineer

Position: Manufacturing Cost Engineer (Permanent)
Location: Salford

Manufacturing Cost Engineer

Salford

Up to £45,000 DOE + Bonus

Hybrid working, flexi hours

Pension, Life Assurance, Health cash back, Holidays

A leading global manufacturer is seeking a Manufacturing Cost Engineer to support its continued growth. Working as part of a high‑performing, collaborative team, you'll help shape and deliver effective profitability strategies across the business. The role centres on transforming complex data into clear insights, enabling informed decision‑making and contributing directly to the company's long‑term success.

Role Description

Reporting directly to the Strategic Lead play a key role in enhancing visibility of cost and margin performance, building reliable reporting and ensuring profitability is a core consideration at every stag
Maintain accurate and consistent cost and margin reporting.
Analyse Bills of Materials (BoMs), routings, and labour flows to identify key cost drivers, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
Collaborate with Engineering and Operations to review product design and manufacturing methods, identifying simplification opportunities and cost-down potential.
Partner with Engineering, Procurement, Operations, and Finance to ensure margin performance is consistently monitored and addressed
Support the implementation of standardised cost control processes, dashboards, and reporting cycles

Skills and Qualifications

Ideally qualified to degree level.
Proven experience as a cost analyst, cost engineer, cost specialist or similar role
Experience in data, operational and financial analysis.

Experience with in a manufacturing, engineering, or technical organisation.
Experience working within a Standard Cost environment and showing an understanding of Manufacturing Variance
Extensive knowledge and experience of SAP Company Information

As a business our client is a true market leader within their industry with a strong presence across the UK. With a secure portfolio of clients these roles provide a stable and secure opportunity in the present economic market.

In return for your commitment my client offers a stable and secure career for technically motivated engineers. If you feel this is of interest, please send your CV to directly to Ben Watkins at (url removed)

If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.

Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.

Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

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