Cost Engineering Manager

Dyson is hiring a Cost Engineering Manager in Shanghai, China. Level rates it ; you can apply on Dyson.

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Lead a cost engineering team to drive product cost reductions, benchmarks, and design-to-cost initiatives.

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About us

Dyson’s cross functional Cost Management team is responsible for cost reductions throughout the entire product lifecycle. With our holistic cost management, we safeguard full cost transparency to make the right decisions. A fact-based approach helps us to identify saving opportunities and drive their implementation. For existing and for future Dyson products.

Dyson Cost Management is seeking a highly motivated Manager and Team Leader for our Cost Engineering team in China to work closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Procurement and Finance teams to ensure our cost competitiveness. As the Manager Cost Engineering within Group Finance team, you will have a significant contribution to the profitability of our inventions and innovations. Your work will have a direct impact on our product cost, our product designs, and our manufacturing processes.

About the role

· Establish and lead a local team to generate bottom up Should Cost / Best Practice product cost calculations.

· Establish state of the art Cost & Value Engineering methods and processes.

· Support target cost setting process.

· Lead competitor teardown/benchmarks.

· Analyse supplier quotes and cost breakdowns of parts and tooling concepts to support procurement team.

· Generate and drive implementation of (Design-to-Cost) cost reduction ideas.

· Manage internal knowledge domain and reference calculation models.

· Enhance total cost management process and digitalization.

About you

· A degree in Engineering with experiences in process and part optimization (electronics and/or mechanics).

· Project and/or team leadership experiences.

· In-depth knowledge and proven track record in Cost Engineering.

· In-depth knowledge on manufacturing technologies – understanding of cost structure and margin structure of purchased and in-house manufactured parts.

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.

How we rate this

Cost Engineering Manager at Dyson rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

Cost Engineering Manager is an open job at Dyson.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in China - Shanghai Office.
The job was posted on October 16, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Dyson. Apply on Dyson

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