Associate Director, Value Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Connecticut.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and cultivate a team of Design-to-Cost and Producibility Engineers across various product lines and programs.

• Establish and execute value engineering strategies, processes, tools, and best practices.

• Drive value engineering CORE events throughout Collins Aerospace's five SBUs.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Program Management, Supply Chain, Operations, and Finance to make cost-informed design decisions.

• Define requirements, design architecture, and make design choices aimed at reducing costs and production risks.

• Develop and implement cost modeling and should-cost methodologies for design trades, supplier negotiations, proposals, BOEs, ROMs, and business cases.

• Supervise and perform producibility assessments, DFMA analyses, manufacturing risk evaluations, design reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Integrate cost, schedule, risk, and producibility factors into program plans and technical baselines.

• Provide engineering-based cost inputs throughout the product lifecycle.

• Create KPIs and reporting mechanisms for product cost performance, producibility index, and cost reduction results.

• Promote innovation, continuous improvement, and value engineering excellence across the organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• A degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) with a minimum of 12 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field with at least 10 years of experience.

• Over 10 years of applicable engineering experience, including design, manufacturing, value engineering, or cost engineering.

• A minimum of 3 years of experience leading technical teams.

• Familiarity with DTC, DFMA, producibility engineering, or cost modeling methodologies.

• Ability to influence decision-making in the early phases of design across various levels.

• U.S. citizenship is required; only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

• A Master's degree in Engineering is preferred.

• Experience in Aerospace/Defense development and production is preferred.

• Knowledge of model-based engineering, digital manufacturing methods, or advanced cost modeling tools is preferred.

• Experience with DFx tools such as aPriori and DFMPro is preferred.

• Proven success in driving cost reduction or producibility improvements on complex products is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees.

• Generous 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions and a separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option.

• Tuition reimbursement program.

• Student Loan Repayment Program.

• Life insurance and disability coverage.

• Optional pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal services, and identity theft protection.

• Birth, adoption, and parental leave benefits.

• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning support.

• Adoption Assistance.

• Autism Benefit.

• Employee Assistance Plan, offering up to 10 free counseling sessions.

• Healthy You Incentives wellness rewards program.

• Doctor on Demand virtual medical visits.

• Bright Horizons child and elder care services.

• Teladoc Medical Experts second opinion program.

• Flexible work schedules.

• Employee Scholar Program.

• Paid time off and holidays.

• Potential annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs (not guaranteed).

• Remote work primarily from home; travel to the site as necessary.

• Potential flexible spending accounts.