Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TechDoQuest is seeking a Senior Consultant to lead and execute an end-to-end Value Workshop (VW) program for industrial product suppliers. The role involves developing execution roadmaps, analyzing product costs and manufacturing processes, facilitating supplier workshops, validating savings concepts, coordinating implementation readiness, and reporting progress to client stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Translate client expectations, product scope, and timing targets into a structured VW execution roadmap for the supplier
- Establish clear governance, cadence, workshop plans, and decision gates for supplier-side execution
- Ensure supplier leadership and cross-functional teams (Design, Manufacturing, Procurement, Quality, etc.) are aligned, resourced, and accountable
- Review VW readiness, metrics, timing, process standardization, and specification compliance
- Review supplier’s current product cost structure, BOM, routing, manufacturing processes, tooling
- Perform should-cost analysis, material savings mapping, tear-down insights, benchmarking, alternate material/process feasibility
- Identify major cost drivers and critical VW levers
- Lead and facilitate on-site VW workshops using industry-standard methods (FAST, DFMA, 7-step VW, idea funneling etc.)
- Drive supplier participation ensuring ideas originate from their teams
- Promote creative but practical ideation, leveraging benchmarking and cross-industry best practices
- Maintain traceable idea register
- Guide supplier engineers in developing VW concepts to technically feasible level
- Review supplier calculations: BOM impact, labor/cycle time changes, tooling implications, yield and scrap effects, supply chain and logistics impacts
- Ensure savings assumptions are realistic, defendable, and auditable
- Coordinate supplier pilot assessments (DFM/A, PFMEA updates, etc.)
- Work with supplier teams to define prototype, test, and qualification needs for each shortlisted idea
- Coordinate timing, PPAP/validation, and supplier internal signoffs
- Ensure lessons learned capture, knowledge sharing, and VW portfolio evolution
- Maintain up-to-date documentation: idea funnel, business cases, risks, decisions, and validation progress
- Produce weekly reports for Program Manager with cost, timing, dependencies, and decisions needed
- Present VW status to client engineering, procurement, and leadership stakeholders
- Drive alignment between supplier and client during reviews
- Ensure ideas approved by client are ready for implementation (complete drawings, process updates, validation evidence)
- Support supplier to prepare implementation timelines, investment requests, and transition plans
- Ensure VW ideas translate into implementation tracking
Skills
- • 15+ years in VW/Value Engineering, NPD, Manufacturing Engineering, Cost Reduction, or Industrial Engineering
- • Strong background in product cost breakdown, design-for-manufacture/assembly, and manufacturing processes
- • Experience in industrial products, automotive, design-for-manufacture/assembly, and manufacturing processes
- • Deep understanding of BOM, cost modeling, manufacturing processes, tooling, and supply chain operations
- • Skilled in structured VW tools and methodologies: FAST diagram, DFMA, tear-down analysis, benchmarking, cost driver modeling
- • Ability to interpret drawings, specifications, engineering change documents
- • Strong workshop facilitation and cross-functional leadership
- • Excellent stakeholder management across supplier teams and client teams
- • High integrity, ownership, accountability, and execution maturity
- • Able to drive consensus, influence, and prioritization
Benefits
- Majority Remote/Hybrid
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