Technical Costing Analyst

At AKG, we believe great people build great products. We are looking for dependable, safety-focused team members who want to grow their skills and be part of a company that values teamwork, accountability, respect, and continuous improvement.

If you enjoy hands-on work, problem-solving, and working with precision equipment in a manufacturing environment, we encourage you to apply. We will train you...

What We Offer:

• Competitive pay based on experience
• Shift differential opportunities
• GREAT Medical, dental, and vision benefits the first of the month after 30 days
• Company Paid Life Insurance, STD insurance and LTD insurance
• PTO and paid holidays
• 401(k) with amazing company match
• Training and advancement opportunities
• Stable manufacturing environment
• Employee recognition programs
• Team-oriented culture focused on safety and respect

What You’ll Do:

The Technical Costing Analyst develops technically accurate, traceable, and commercially sound product-cost estimates for customer quotations, new products, engineering changes, sourcing decisions, and ongoing production. The role translates engineering designs and manufacturing requirements into documented material, labor, machine, overhead, tooling, purchased-component, outside-processing, packaging, and logistics assumptions.

The analyst partners with Engineering, Sales, Purchasing, Production Planning, Manufacturing, and Finance to maintain accurate product-costing data in SAP, reconcile quoted, standard, and actual costs, identify potential margin erosion, and support value-engineering and cost-reduction activities.

The position serves as the technical validator of product-cost assumptions. SAP calculates the result; the analyst validates the physical and commercial assumptions that drive the calculation.

Essential Functions:

• Develop detailed product-cost estimates from engineering drawings, specifications, bills of materials, manufacturing concepts, customer requirements, and forecasted production volumes.

• Establish documented assumptions for material usage, scrap, yield, labor content, machine time, tooling, outside processing, purchased components, packaging, freight, overhead, and other applicable cost elements.

• Critically evaluate and challenge costing inputs, including BOM completeness, manufacturing-sequence feasibility, cycle-time assumptions, labor content, scrap and yield factors, tooling requirements, sourcing strategies, and capacity constraints.

• Review product designs and proposed manufacturing processes to identify major cost drivers, manufacturability concerns, missing information, and cost-reduction opportunities.

• Work with Engineering and Manufacturing to define preliminary routings, production methods, cycle-time assumptions, equipment requirements, and process parameters when historical data is unavailable.

• Obtain and validate material and purchased-component pricing with Purchasing, including source, effective date, quantity assumptions, minimum-order requirements, lead times, tooling, and nonrecurring costs.

• Support make-versus-buy, sourcing, production-transfer, and alternative-manufacturing-method analyses.

• Execute and support SAP product-costing and mass-costing activities in accordance with approved Finance and business processes.

• Review costing-related SAP master data, including bills of materials, routings, work centers, activity rates, overhead application, scrap factors, and purchasing information; coordinate correction of identified discrepancies with the responsible owner.

• Monitor standard product costs and investigate significant changes, inconsistencies, or incomplete costing inputs.

• Compare quoted costs, released standard costs, and actual production costs to identify unfavorable variances and potential margin erosion.

• Conduct post-launch and periodic cost reviews to determine whether quotation assumptions remain valid after design release and production stabilization.

• Prepare clear cost summaries, assumptions, sensitivities, risks, and recommendations for quotation and management review.

• Support value-engineering, design-to-cost, continuous-improvement, and cost-reduction activities with fact-based financial analysis.

• Maintain costing standards, templates, calculation methods, assumptions, revision history, and supporting documentation.

• Escalate incomplete, inconsistent, or unreliable costing inputs that could materially affect quotation accuracy or product margin.

• Support budgeting, financial planning, capital analysis, and margin reviews as assigned.

• Adhere to applicable company safety, quality, environmental, confidentiality, and operational requirements.

• Maintain regular and reliable physical attendance.

Secondary Functions:

• Participate in reviews involving new products, engineering changes, sourcing changes, production transfers, and capital projects.

• Participate in value-analysis, cost-reduction, and continuous-improvement workshops.

• Provide backup support for related estimating and costing activities during absences or peak workload.

• Travel occasionally to manufacturing facilities, suppliers, or other company locations.

• Perform other related duties assigned by management.