Tier 1 to the world’s leading industry manufacturers (Airbus, BAE Systems, Boeing, Bombardier, Dassault Aviation, Embraer, Honda Aircraft Company, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, Thales), Latecoere serves aerospace with innovative solutions for a sustainable world. The Group operates in all segments of the aerospace industry (commercial, regional, business, defense and space) in two business areas: Aerostructures (doors, fuselage, wings and empennage, struts & rods) and Interconnection Systems (wiring, avionic racks, onboard equipment, electronic systems). As of December 31, 2023, the Group employed 5,497 people in 14 countries.

The Cost Estimator participates in determining products production forecasted costs ('should cost'), in series or in development, taking into account all the determining industrial and economic factors from the call for tender phases to production.

III/ PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

Hierarchic reattachment:

• VP Program & Sales – Americas

Functional reattachment:

• AS Costing Team Manager

Internal contacts:

• Engineering Department and Operations Department to obtain definition elements or implementation processes.
• LAS :

• Sales Department: to define the sales strategy and the methods for presenting costs
• Purchasing Department: to define the market prices of materials and components purchased, and the hourly rates for subcontracted work
• Operations : understand internal processes, capacity and capabilities, and with the support of process specialists, develop and improve costing models
• Industrial Strategy: to provide industrial loads forecast and feed the Make or Buy industrial strategy.
• Controlling Department : to work on cost models, understand analytical structures, hourly rates and operating costs for the Group's factories, as well as cost analyzes of similar products produced
  • Programs & sales Department : to align the costing analysis needs during the development phase with the NPI Program Manager or with the Program Manager Officer on serial programs
  • Customers and suppliers : to present and justify the defined costing elements

IV/ MISSIONS AND ACTIVITIES

• Quantify the costs of new products during call for tenders phases, based on the product definition developed by the Engineering Department (« Design and build ») or by the Customer (“Build to print”):
  • Analyze available technical definitions in order to identify the most suited process to producing the products, as well as the technical drivers needed for the cost evaluation.
  • Evaluate the quantity of hours and materials for production as well as the corresponding industrialization expenses and calculate the production costs, taking into account all the determining industrial and economic factors
  • Evaluate non-recurring costs (NRC) according to its area of responsibility and consistent with recurring costs (RC)
• Quantify the various technical solutions envisaged by the design teams at objective cost (design to cost) in order to provide the Technical Department with the elements of choice for the best technical-economic solutions (call for tenders or redesign phase). cost);
• Establish detailed unit budgets for new products, in labor hours and purchase prices of materials and components, and corresponding to the definition of the product launched into production, in relation to the industrial distribution plan (during the production launching);
• Participate in internal tender management meetings
• Quantify changes in product definition, in order to provide the Programs Department with cost drivers, and/or to provide the Sales Department with elements for additional negotiation of sales prices (design and development phase some products) ;
• Define purchase price objectives, following industrial distribution and in agreement with the Programs Department (during suppliers RFPs);
• Consolidate RCs and NRCs in response to the needs of Commercial & Contract Department, synthesize cos assumptions, risks and associated opportunities and document customer price matrix;
• Participation to technical exchanges with customers in order to ensure the technical-economic costing consistency;
• Participate in offers RETEX as well as updating costing tools (time scales) according to your area of expertise in collaboration with production facilities;
• Contribution to ROM estimation (parametric / analog tools);
• Contribute to the evolution of the tools and formats used for the cost estimations;

CARRY OUT OTHER MISSIONS / ACTIVITIES UPON REQUEST OF YOUR MANAGER

V/ RESPONSIBILITIES AND LATITUDE FOR ACTION

The Cost Estimatorr is responsible for the cost estimation within his product scope under his N+1 supervision.

• Participates in the production of « traditional » cost estimations using identified tools and procedures.
• Participates in the production of complex costings by adapting business tools and procedures if necessary, produces and presents costing summaries, as well as participating in technical discussions with customers.
• Establishes the methodology and processing products data according to the customer’s specificity in case of complex costing.
• Use diagnostic procedures (ABC, data comparisons) in oreder to provide a first level of validation and argumentation on the results of labor and material costings.
• Participates, in collaboration with the other Cost Estimators, in the distribution of costing activities and associated technical exchanges.

  The Cost Estimator participates in determining products production forecasted costs ('should cost'), in series or in development, taking into account all the determining industrial and economic factors from the call for tender phases to production.

  III/ PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

  Hierarchic reattachment:

• VP Program & Sales – Americas

• Functional reattachment:

• AS Costing Team Manager

• Internal contacts:

• Engineering Department and Operations Department to obtain definition elements or implementation processes.
• LAS :
• Sales Department: to define the sales strategy and the methods for presenting costs
• Purchasing Department: to define the market prices of materials and components purchased, and the hourly rates for subcontracted work
• Operations : understand internal processes, capacity and capabilities, and with the support of process specialists, develop and improve costing models
• Industrial Strategy: to provide industrial loads forecast and feed the Make or Buy industrial strategy.
• Controlling Department : to work on cost models, understand analytical structures, hourly rates and operating costs for the Group's factories, as well as cost analyzes of similar products produced
  • Programs & sales Department : to align the costing analysis needs during the development phase with the NPI Program Manager or with the Program Manager Officer on serial programs
  • Customers and suppliers : to present and justify the defined costing elements
  
  

• IV/ MISSIONS AND ACTIVITIES

  Quantify the costs of new products during call for tenders phases, based on the product definition developed by the Engineering Department (« Design and build ») or by the Customer (“Build to print”):

  • Analyze available technical definitions in order to identify the most suited process to producing the products, as well as the technical drivers needed for the cost evaluation.
  • Evaluate the quantity of hours and materials for production as well as the corresponding industrialization expenses and calculate the production costs, taking into account all the determining industrial and economic factors
  • Evaluate non-recurring costs (NRC) according to its area of responsibility and consistent with recurring costs (RC)
• Quantify the various technical solutions envisaged by the design teams at objective cost (design to cost) in order to provide the Technical Department with the elements of choice for the best technical-economic solutions (call for tenders or redesign phase). cost);
• Establish detailed unit budgets for new products, in labor hours and purchase prices of materials and components, and corresponding to the definition of the product launched into production, in relation to the industrial distribution plan (during the production launching);
• Participate in internal tender management meetings
• Quantify changes in product definition, in order to provide the Programs Department with cost drivers, and/or to provide the Sales Department with elements for additional negotiation of sales prices (design and development phase some products) ;
• Define purchase price objectives, following industrial distribution and in agreement with the Programs Department (during suppliers RFPs);
• Consolidate RCs and NRCs in response to the needs of Commercial & Contract Department, synthesize cos assumptions, risks and associated opportunities and document customer price matrix;
• Participation to technical exchanges with customers in order to ensure the technical-economic costing consistency;
• Participate in offers RETEX as well as updating costing tools (time scales) according to your area of expertise in collaboration with production facilities;
• Contribution to ROM estimation (parametric / analog tools);
• Contribute to the evolution of the tools and formats used for the cost estimations;



• CARRY OUT OTHER MISSIONS / ACTIVITIES UPON REQUEST OF YOUR MANAGER

  V/ RESPONSIBILITIES AND LATITUDE FOR ACTION

  The Cost Estimatorr is responsible for the cost estimation within his product scope under his N+1 supervision.

  Participates in the production of « traditional » cost estimations using identified tools and procedures.

• Participates in the production of complex costings by adapting business tools and procedures if necessary, produces and presents costing summaries, as well as participating in technical discussions with customers.
• Establishes the methodology and processing products data according to the customer’s specificity in case of complex costing.
• Use diagnostic procedures (ABC, data comparisons) in oreder to provide a first level of validation and argumentation on the results of labor and material costings.
• Participates, in collaboration with the other Cost Estimators, in the distribution of costing activities and associated technical exchanges

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