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Cost Engineer

40 hours per week Vlaardingen HBO/WO

Combining finance with technology. That's what you do as a Cost Engineer at in Vlaardingen. We will teach you how to prepare cost calculations, and you will be jointly responsible for project estimates and the budgets for our "cookie machines." Your ultimate goal? To ensure that, thanks to your calculations, the sales department can present a competitive and attractive sales price to the customer.

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About the job

As a Cost Engineer, you play a key role in translating technical designs into accurate and competitive cost calculations. You combine analytical skills with technical insight to ensure our projects are financially sound and commercially strong.

Working closely with multiple departments, you make sure every installation component of our machines is calculated as precisely as possible. Your work directly supports sales, project execution, and innovation within the organization.

Your key responsibilities:

• Determine cost prices for installation components of our "cookie machines," including materials, assembly hours, and engineering hours.

• Consult with internal departments such as Procurement, Assembly, and Engineering to gather accurate cost information.

• Extract and analyze required data from technical drawings and post-calculations of completed projects.

• Identify and advise on potential financial risks within projects.

• Provide financial insights on new technical innovations and development projects.

• Contribute ideas to further improve and optimize the project calculation model.

What we offer

A challenging position within an innovative, specialized, and international company. You will work in a stimulating environment filled with financial and technical challenges, where you are given the opportunity to further develop yourself within your field of expertise.

What you can expect:

• A monthly salary between €3.800 and €4.800 (based on a 40-hour workweek), depending on knowledge and experience.

• 27 vacation days and 13 additional leave days (ADV) in accordance with the Metalektro collective labor agreement.

• The option to "sell" unused ADV days each year.

• A fixed monthly commuting allowance of €0.23 per kilometer.

• A solid pension plan with PME, with 50% of the contributions covered by .

• Attractive employee benefits such as financial support for uncovered healthcare costs, a gym membership, or a contribution towards a new bicycle for commuting.

• A healthy work-life balance, with flexibility to organize your working hours.

• Internal and external training opportunities to support your personal development and to maintain your product and system knowledge.

What you bring

You have good analytical skills and work with precision. Preferable, you have some familiarity with project-based work and preparing calculations. Dont'have this experience yet? We are happy to teach you!

Key qualifications:

• Bachelor's level (HBO) work and thinking skills.

• Analytical skills that enable you to create accurate cost calculations using the right information.

• You can work independently and with focus, but also collaborate to gather the right information from your colleagues.

• You are precise, ensuring that you consistently create accurate cost calculation models based on your analyses.

• Good communication skills in Dutch and English.

• Providing a Certificate of Conduct (VOG) may be part of the application process.

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Excited about this opportunity? Take the next step and send us your application. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Your future team

You are part of the Cost Engineering department, a small but rapidly growing team currently consisting of three Cost Engineers and a Cost Process Manager. You will collaborate closely with them as well as with various engineering departments, such as Procurement, R&D, Engineering, Sales, and Assembly.

Our department is increasingly taking on a central role within the organization: colleagues know how to find us and rely on our expertise in project cost calculations. Together, we work hard to support our colleagues, and we can always turn to each other for questions or advice. In fact, everyone at Houdijk is approachable, which is especially helpful in your role-you can easily walk over to someone to gather all the information needed for a cost calculation.

About

Every day, millions of baked goods move seamlessly through our systems, from oven to packaging, with unmatched efficiency and precision. employs 225 people and operates from its headquarters in Vlaardingen, the Netherlands, supported by global service centers in the USA, Mexico and Austria.

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