Senior Costing Manager / Costing Head – Manufacturing

Qualification ./ Mechanical Engineering

Reports to Managing Director (MD)

Salary ₹ 8- LPA (negotiable for an outstanding candidate)

Key responsibilities

Product costing and estimation

• Cost products end-to-end from engineering drawings and specifications.

• Prepare BOMs; calculate material weights, consumption, nesting, scrap and wastage.

• Estimate raw material, cutting, fabrication, welding, machining, casting, heat treatment, painting, labour and overhead costs.

• Include packing, freight and export documentation costs where relevant.

Costing system and rates

• Build and maintain machine-hour rates, labour rates and overhead absorption for both units.

• Set scrap and yield norms by material: MS, SS, Bright Bar, Hardox 450/500, engineering steels, castings.

• Create standard costing sheets by product family and keep a historical cost database.

• Set up or improve costing masters in the ERP.

Pricing, control and reporting

• Give pricing recommendations with margin logic for every quotation.

• Compare estimated vs actual cost on completed orders; find the cause of every major gap.

• Identify savings: material substitution, better nesting, process changes, make-vs-buy.

• Send a monthly profitability and variance report to the MD.

• Handle pricing, cost and customer data with complete confidentiality.

Coordination

• Work with Purchase (material and vendor rates), Production (cycle times, process routes) and Sales (enquiries, deadlines) for accurate, on-time quotes. Required skills

• Strong reading of mechanical and GA drawings; independent BOM and weight calculation.

• Hands-on costing of fabrication, machining, casting and industrial components.

• Material knowledge of MS, SS, Bright Bar, Hardox 450/500 and engineering steels.

• Advanced Excel; AutoCAD or other CAD for reading drawings; ERP experience preferred. • Clear communicator who can explain cost and margin to Sales and the MD.

Industry background (in order of priority) 1. 2. 3.

First priority: cement plant equipment and spares, mining equipment, bulk material handling (bucket elevators, conveyors, feeders, crushers, chutes, hoppers, wear liners). Next: heavy engineering, steel fabrication, wear-resistant steel products, foundry or machining for industrial equipment.

Acceptable only if exceptional: other industrial manufacturing with heavy fabrication content.

• Experience

  8 - 14 Years

• No. of Openings

  1

• Education

  Graduate (B.Tech/B.E : Mechanical)

• Role

  Senior Costing Manager

• Industry Type

  Industrial Products / Heavy Machinery

• Gender

  Male

• Job Country

  India

• Type of Job

  Full Time

• Work Location Type

  Work from Office

• Face Interview Location

  Sihani Chungi Ghaziabad