Costing Engineer

Build Your Career with Wanek Furniture

At Wanek Furniture, we provide extensive opportunities for career development, including domestic and international training programs, collaboration with a global network of professionals, and daily interactions with industry experts across various functions. These opportunities empower our employees to achieve their professional goals and excel in their careers.

By joining Wanek Furniture, you become part of a team committed to excellence, innovation, and exceptional quality. Take the next step in your career and contribute to shaping the future of the global furniture industry with us.

What Will You Do?

At Wanek, we're a forward-thinking organization that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We are currently seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented
Costing Engineer (Furniture)
to join our Engineering team.

1. Front-End Quoting & Feasibility Analysis:

• Receive and analyze all incoming quotation requests for new OEM and International R&D projects.
• Rapidly interpret customer requirements from diverse inputs, including inspiration photos, technical drawings, target price points, and functional descriptions.
• Conduct initial feasibility assessments to determine if a concept can be manufactured within the desired cost and quality parameters.

2. Preliminary BOM & Routing Development:

• Leverage your extensive technical knowledge to create 
  preliminary Bill of Materials (BOMs)
   for new concepts, making educated assumptions about materials, hardware, and components.
• Develop 
  preliminary manufacturing routings
  , estimating the sequence of operations and labor time required for production based on product complexity.
• Build a complete, top-level cost estimate (Material, Labor, Overhead) based on this initial technical breakdown.

3. Strategic Cost Guidance:

• Provide quick, data-driven feedback to the Sales and R&D teams on the viability of customer requests.
• Proactively identify key cost drivers and suggest alternative design approaches, materials, or construction methods to help meet the customer's target price.
• Clearly articulate the technical assumptions made during the quoting process to manage expectations.

4. Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Work closely with Sourcing to obtain preliminary pricing for new or non-standard components.
• Collaborate with the Design and Engineering teams to translate your preliminary BOM and routing into a formal product design.
• Act as the technical costing expert in initial project kick-off meetings.

What You Need?

1. Education:

• Graduated from university with a major relating to Engineering.
• Good command of English communication skill.

2. Experience:

• More than 2 years' experience in the cost/estimating furniture field.
• Familiarity with 3D CAD software (e.g., SolidWorks) for design review.
• Knowledge of different furniture construction techniques (e.g., RTA vs. fully assembled, wood frame vs. metal frame).
• Expert user of Excel and statistical analysis software.
• Experience with ERP systems like SAP.
• Experience of presenting cost engineering information to management team.

3. Knowledge of:

• Cost engineering functions, including cost estimating, cost control, and cost analysis.

4. Skills and Abilities

• A strong "can-do" attitude with the ability to make logical, defensible assumptions based on incomplete information.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical and financial information clearly.
• Ability to work under high pressure.
• Highly capable of identifying problems and solving problems.
• Very proactive and energetic.
• Systematic, methodical, detailed, thorough, transparent.
• Expert-level understanding of Bill of Materials (BOMs) and Manufacturing Routings. You must be able to create these from scratch based on a concept.
• Proven ability to read and interpret technical drawings and product specifications.
• Excellent Written and Spoken English.

*Note: Shuttle bus is provided (Routes include
Binh Duong, Bien Hoa,
and
Ho Chi Minh City
).

Who Are We?

Wanek Furniture is a vital partner in the supply chain of the world's largest furniture manufacturer, with a distribution network spanning over 123 countries. Since establishing operations in Vietnam in 2008, we have grown significantly, operating across four facilities in Binh Duong Province and employing over 9,000 dedicated team members.

We take pride in offering an international, professional work environment where employees can build long-term, stable careers. With a comprehensive benefits package and a strong culture of positivity and success, Wanek Furniture is recognized as an employer of choice. Our commitment to employee engagement, continuous development, and collaboration drives individual growth and collective achievement.

Apply today and grow your career at Wanek

Our Core Values

• Honesty & Integrity
• Passion, Drive, Discipline
• Continuous Improvement/Operational Excellence
• Dirty Fingernail
• Growth Focused

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