# Senior Cost Engineer

Job Description The Senior Cost Engineer (CE) is responsible to create, analyze and validate component material costs and targets. The cost engineer working in the PPCO / Product Program Cost Optimization team will be responsible for generating ground-up / detailed material cost estimates that encompass both piece price estimations and production tooling estimations. Collaboration with key internal cross functional peers is essential; the selected candidate will have a working relationship with the product engineering team, the purchasing and supply chain team, the vehicle program team, our global j global partners (including Mexico, South America and South Korea), and to an extent the external component supply base. This role involves a high level of independent judgment, initiative, creativity, and the management of multiple estimates that focus specifically on identifying accurate cost estimates as well as proposed cost reductions. The Senior Cost Engineer operates with minimal guidance, often solving non-standard, ambiguous cost problems and shaping cost strategies for an ever-evolving business (i.e., resiliency and industrialization efforts). The cost engineer will have exposu

- **Id**: 4221901
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/general-motors-senior-cost-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Warren, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T20:43:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9366
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Automotive Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 1705
- **Name**: General Motors
- **Domain**: gm.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/general-motors-europe>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 74
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.527
- **Repost share**: 0.027
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 16
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Excel** — Optional: yes
- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T05:37:11Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 795 · green card filings: 1; Filings 12m: 795

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:5, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

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