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You as the Technical Lead – TCO Engineering is a core member of the TCO (Technical Cost Out) team and is accountable for delivering material and component cost reduction, supply resilience, and margin improvement through technical analysis, specification optimization, exploring different sourcing options, and multi-functional execution. The role partners closely with Procurement, R&D, Quality, Operations, and Suppliers to identify, validate, and implement cost optimization opportunities while maintaining product performance, regulatory compliance, and supply continuity. This role sits within the TCO team within the ISC organization with strong dotted-line engagement to Procurement, R&D, and Operations. The role is execution-focused and operates within established governance forums.
Job Responsibility:
Identify and evaluate opportunities to reduce total costs in materials, components, and processes at ITP sites
Concentrate on insourcing, alternative procurement methods, and process and product value engineering
Ensure alignment to site and partner with Manufacturing Strategy to align to invented future state
Perform structured should-cost, clean-sheet, and teardown analyses
Support category strategies with fact-based cost drivers and benchmarks
Facilitate multi-functional Continuous Improvement, Kaizen and Cost Optimization events to generate and prioritize ideas
Lead a multi-functional technical team through the planning and execution of projects using various engineering and scientific techniques, procedures and criteria
Lead or support technical change execution including specification and material substitution
Coordinate sample builds, trials, and testing
Support change control processes, validation, and implementation (e.g., cut-in planning)
Partner with Procurement, Quality, R&D, Operations, Strategy, and Finance among others
Engage suppliers on process capability, readiness, and cost clarity
Support dual qualification, risk mitigation, and capacity assessments
Lead and track initiatives end-to-end from opportunity assessment, reason development, full execution and hand over of project and savings to operations
Maintain documentation of assumptions, risks, and approvals
Advance quality, service, regulatory, cost or timeline risks
Document and leverage standards as part of the internal TCO center continuous improvement methodology
Requirements:
5-8+ years experience with Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Materials, Plastics, Chemicals, Packaging, or Manufacturing engineering, science, or related field
Shown experience delivering multi-million dollar value engineering savings
Shown experience leading multi-functional projects end-to-end using structured project management methods
Validated understanding of GMP, change control, deviation/CAPA concepts, and validation/qualification principles
Strong analytical capability
Strong interpersonal skills and multi-functional influence skills
Travel required
Nice to have:
Experience in alternative procurement and supplier qualification (APQP/PPAP) in regulated manufacturing, with end-to-end technical and procurement leadership delivering cost savings
Experience translating technical changes into measurable business value, insourcing transitions and tech transfer activities
Experience in value engineering and compose for manufacturability
Experience with cost modelling, should-costing or clean-sheet methodologies