Principal Costing engineer
Leoni Wiring Systems
Total years of experience :13 years, 4 Months
Professional Experience:
Principal Costing Engineer -Leoni Wiring Systems Jan2014- Present
Key Responsibilities:
• Leading a team of Costing Engineers to Supply Commercial interface (UK team) with Cost values to charge our Customer and giving manufacturing plant values to charge UK for harnesses.
• Assisting and Supporting first line managers in Business problem Solving.
• Responsible for Designing and Implementation of on Job training and Improvement plans of team members.
• Supporting team associates with their daily activities.
• Supervise Implementation of all the transferred activities from UK BU.
Key Achievements:
• Supporting Improvement project to create a live video library for all Non-standard processes to be a reference for all the parties involved in using those processes which will save a lot of time.
Key Responsibilities:
• Leading a team of Costing Engineers and responsible for assigning tasks to all team members to make sure that all the targets are met
• Conducting On-Job training for all new Comers and Body mentor them through their probation period
• Co-ordinating Costing activities between Egypt and UK and make sure that the data are available on time with the relevant parties.
Key Achievements:
• Raising Costing team from 3 members (Engineers) to fully functioning and Independent 10 Costing Engineers and a Costing assistant.
• Leading a project of improving standard templates team is using to conduct their Costing activities to be Compatible with data formatting to decrease non-value added time Consumed in changing format from data received to our templates.
• Supervising the Project of Constructing a training manual to be used in Conducting trainings to the new Comers and to be a reference for the rest of the team (The know -how of the Costing Process was clearly described in it ) with the participation of all the team members.
• Initiating an Improvement process to review Cycle between Costing Dept. the relevant depts. from whom we receive the data to Cost (Design team & Design for manufacturing) to Spot the non-value added areas and minimize it which resulted in an Improvement project to our database and reducing Non-value added time by 34%.
• Leading a negotiation with UK Engineering team leader to review data sent to Costing team which lead to having a new Check list Compatible with Costing requirements and standards for UK design team to adhere to when Creating data that will be sent to the Costing team.
• Implementing a Saving Idea which is moving all the Costing data for the dead projects from the server to DVD’s to be used when needed which saved about 9GB space on our server shared area.
• Participating in maintaining Implementation of 5S Japanese Concept (Sort-Set in order- Shine - Standardize-sustain) within Costing area.
Mini MBA in Project management ,Knowledge academy (PMI certified) that included: • Project Planning Techniques. • Organizational Behavior. • Project Contract and Quality Management. • Advanced Management & Leader Ship. • Project Monitoring &Control Techniques. • Business Finance.
