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Job Title: Senior Consultant VAVE Program
Location: Cottage Grove, MN (Each location to be visited once. USA (CA, NE, ND, NC, OH) and Tijuana (Mexico). May add few more locations.)
Onsite/ Hybrid/ Remote: Hybrid
Duration: 3 Months
Role Summary:
The Senior VAVE Consultant will lead, anchor, and execute the end
to
end VAVE program directly at the supplier s facility for Industrial products.
This role ensures that the supplier generates credible, feasible, and implementable cost
reduction ideas without compromising quality, reliability, performance, or regulatory compliance.
Consultant will work closely with the Program Manager, the client's cross-functional teams, and the supplier s cross
functional teams to ensure the program delivers validated savings.
Key Responsibilities
VAVE Strategy, Planning
Alignment
Translate client expectations, product scope, and savings targets into a structured VAVE 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.
Define VAVE workstreams: material, design, process, standardization, and specification optimization.
Technical Analysis
Baseline Preparation
Review supplier s current product cost structure, BOM, routing, manufacturing processes, tooling.
Perform structured analyses: functional analysis, cost driver mapping, tear
down insights, benchmarking, alternate material/process feasibility.
Identify major value levers and prioritize high
impact VAVE zones.
Facilitation of Workshops
Ideation Sessions
Lead and facilitate on
site VAVE workshops using industry
standard methods (FAST, DFMA, 7
step VAVE, idea funneling etc.,).
Drive supplier participation, ensuring ideas originate from their teams.
Promote creative but practical ideation, leveraging benchmarks and cross
industry best practices.
Maintain a traceable idea register.
Technical
Cost Feasibility Development
Guide supplier engineers in developing VAVE concepts to a technically defensible 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, evidence
backed, and auditable.
Coordinate supplier s risk assessments (DFMEA/PFMEA updates).
Validation Planning
Coordination
Work with supplier teams to define prototype, test, and qualification needs for each shortlisted idea.
Coordinate trials, PPAP/FAI readiness, and supplier internal testing.
Ensure ideas meet client s quality, regulatory, safety, and performance standards.
Reporting, Documentation
Stakeholder Management
Maintain up
to
date documentation idea funnel, business cases, risks, decisions, and validation progress.
Provide weekly progress reports to the Program Manager with clear risks, dependencies, and decisions needed.
Present VAVE outputs to client engineering, procurement, and leadership stakeholders.
Drive alignment between supplier and client during reviews.
Implementation Readiness
Handover
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 a clean handover into implementation tracking.
Required Skills
Experience
Experience
15+ years in VAVE/Value Engineering, NPD, Manufacturing Engineering, Cost Reduction, or Industrial Engineering.
Proven experience leading VAVE programs at tier
1 or tier
2 suppliers in relevant industries (electro
mechanical, industrial, automotive, electronics, consumer products, etc.).
Strong background in product cost breakdown, design
for
manufacture/assembly, and manufacturing processes.
Technical Skills
Deep understanding of BOM, cost modeling, manufacturing processes, tooling, materials, and supply chain economics.
Skilled in structured VAVE tools and methodologies:
FAST diagrams, DFMA, Tear
down/value analysis, Benchmarking, Cost driver modeling
Ability to interpret drawings, specifications, engineering change documents.
Behavioral Skills
Strong workshop facilitation and cross
functional leadership.
Excellent stakeholder management across supplier teams and client teams.
Able to handle conflicts, push for accountability, and maintain neutrality.
High clarity in communication, documentation, and presentations.
Typical Deliverables of this Role
VAVE roadmap
execution plan
Baseline cost analysis
teardown insights
VAVE workshop outputs and idea funnel
Technical and commercial feasibility packs
Savings validation documents
Risk register, validation plan
Final VAVE report for client approval
Implementation readiness package