Key Responsibilities
1. Costing & Estimation
- Develop and maintain should-cost models for products, assemblies, and systems (e.g., chillers, fan walls, skids).
- Lead project cost estimation during bidding and execution phases.
- Validate BOMs, routings, and manufacturing assumptions for accuracy.
- Partner with engineering to ensure design-to-cost alignment.
2. Supplier & Procurement Costing
- Analyze supplier quotes and build clean-sheet cost models.
- Support procurement in negotiations with fact-based costing.
- Track commodity trends (copper, aluminum, steel, etc.).
3. Cost Optimization / Value Engineering
- Identify and drive cost reduction initiatives (material, design, process).
- Conduct value engineering (VE) / value analysis (VA) workshops.
- Benchmark internal costs vs market and global standards.
- Challenge over-engineering and push standardization/modularization.
4. Support Finance in Margin Control
- Monitor product / project margins vs target.
- Conduct variance analysis (standard vs actual cost).
- Support pricing decisions with cost transparency.
- Build dashboards for cost visibility across business units.
Skills Required
- Develop and maintain should-cost models for products, assemblies, and systems
- Lead project cost estimation during bidding and execution phases
- Validate BOMs, routings, and manufacturing assumptions for accuracy
- Partner with engineering to ensure design-to-cost alignment
- Analyze supplier quotes and build clean-sheet cost models
- Support procurement in negotiations using fact-based costing
- Track commodity trends (copper, aluminum, steel, etc.)
- Identify and drive cost reduction and value engineering initiatives
- Conduct value engineering (VE) / value analysis (VA) workshops
- Benchmark internal costs versus market and global standards
- Monitor product/project margins, perform variance analysis (standard vs actual cost)
- Support pricing decisions and build dashboards for cost visibility
- Legal authorization to work in the United States; no visa sponsorship provided
What We Do
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to ensure its customers’ vital applications run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs approximately 20,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.
