Will you be our new colleague?
Research and Development
Barneveld
40 hours
Your role
We are looking for a Cost Engineer! This is a unique growth role in which you, as Moba's first Cost Engineer, will build the cost calculation discipline from the ground up. As the team grows, your responsibilities will expand. As a Cost Engineer at Moba, you will play a key role in creating cost transparency and ensuring competitiveness within our product portfolio. Do you have technical expertise and business acumen, and would you like to contribute to strategic decisions in design, production, and sourcing? Then we would like to invite you for an introductory meeting!
For almost 80 years, Moba has been creating total solutions for sorting, packing, and processing eggs that are sold all over the world. Over the years, Moba has grown into a global market leader with systems in 111 different countries, processing more than 1 billion eggs every day. From design, development, production, and installation to service, it all happens in Barneveld.
As a Cost Engineer, you play a key role in ensuring comprehensive cost transparency and competitiveness within our product portfolio. You are the founder of the cost engineering function within Moba: you set up processes, methods, and tooling, thereby building a solid foundation for a growing discipline. You will develop cost models, analyze design changes, and support data-driven decisions that balance functionality, quality, and costs in order to influence portfolio, design, production, purchasing, and logistics choices.
This role is ideally suited to someone with experience as a cost engineer who combines technical insights with commercial thinking and the ambition to develop the cost engineering discipline within Moba.
A selection of the activities:
• Developing integrated cost calculation and design-to-cost competencies;
• Setting up and organizing the cost engineering discipline within Moba, including defining the structure, working methods, and objectives for the discipline;
• Developing processes and standardized methods to ensure consistency in cost calculation and integrated cost reporting;
• Using industry-standard tools (e.g., FACTON, aPriori, or similar) to support these processes;
• Developing standardized reports (templates/tools) to assess the current situation and compare costs;
• Increasing cost awareness in the design process and helping teams make better decisions at an early stage;
• Analyzing actual costs and identifying initiatives and opportunities for cost optimization of our portfolio.
Supporting product development projects:
• Provide early-stage cost feedback to support strategic and architectural choices that support realistic cost targets;
• Collaborate with R&D and manufacturing engineering during the development process to assess the costs of design and production choices;
• Support make-or-buy, sourcing, and investment decisions.
Good working conditions
What you get from us
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You will receive
An excellent salary;
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A pioneering and growth role with direct impact: you establish the cost engineering discipline and grow along with it;
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27 vacation days and 13 scheduled days off;
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A fixed year-end bonus of 10% and vacation allowance of 8%;
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Flexibility to set your own working hours and a work-from-home arrangement;
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Excellent collective labor agreement; we participate in the Metalektro collective labor agreement;
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A cross-functional role with strong visibility within engineering, sourcing, and management;
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The opportunity to shape Moba's cost engineering framework and digital costing tools;
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A collaborative team focused on continuous improvement;
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Extensive training and development opportunities;
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Excellent pension plan (PME);
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Various secondary employment conditions such as a national company fitness plan in the Netherlands and various group insurance policies;
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Additional activities such as monthly drinks and an active staff association.
What we ask of you
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Production Engineering, or a comparable technical field;
- 3–6 years of experience in cost engineering, product costing, or manufacturing engineering within a similar environment;
- Strong understanding of manufacturing and assembly processes (e.g., machining, casting, injection molding, assembly) and ability to identify key cost drivers in low-volume equipment manufacturing;
- Knowledge of value analysis/value engineering (VA/VE) or should-costing principles;
- Experience with cost estimation, data analysis, and ERP tools (e.g., aPriori, FACTON, MS Dynamics, internal cost models);
- Familiarity with CAD/PLM systems (e.g., Windchill, Creo);
- Familiarity with configurable products (CTO) and variant management in engineering.
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Who are you?
- Together, you work as a single team on the sustainable success of our customers and build strong, committed relationships.
- You do what you promise by making clear agreements, fulfilling them, and honestly seeking solutions together, so that you build trust with customers and colleagues.
- With respect, you give each other constructive feedback to grow together in a sustainable way;
- You continuously learn, improve, innovate, and challenge yourself to make a real impact for customers, colleagues, yourself, and the world around you.
- Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail;
- You are someone who communicates clearly and confidently and who can effectively convey complex information between different departments and levels within the organization;
- You bring structure and insight to discussions, focus on the core of the issue, and encourage decision-making.
- You have the ambition and ability to build a team over time and are attracted to the challenge of pioneering within a growing organization.