Lead Cost & Value Engineer (all genders)

Lead Cost & Value Engineer (all genders)

Location: Hamburg or Bremen

Responsibilities:

• Lead and embed cost & value engineering across Skyborn’s full project portfolio and life‑cycle, ensuring sustained cost competitiveness and practical implementation.
• Challenge supply‑chain cost drivers and assumptions across engineering, materials, fabrication, T&I and services, working directly with suppliers to improve productivity and scope efficiency.
• Build and maintain a robust should‑cost and benchmark fact base, including cleansheets, to support decision‑making, negotiations and contract optimization.
• Identify, quantify and prioritize high‑impact cost and value opportunities across project stages and packages, translating insights into actionable levers and tracked value capture.
• Drive cross‑functional alignment on cost/value trade‑offs by partnering closely with Engineering, Development, Commercial, Package Management, Risk Management and Legal.
• Contribute to project and business risk management by identifying cost and value risks early and implementing optimization measures across functions and packages.
• Lead and facilitate structured value engineering initiatives in a matrix environment, delivering clear decisions, documented actions, and measurable value capture outcomes.

Qualifications:

• Engineering degree (Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Industrial, or equivalent technical discipline).
• Several years’ experience across engineering, fabrication/production, supply chain, T&I and/or commercial interfaces, ideally in offshore wind (foundations, cables, substations, or similar).
• Strong analytical skills to assess cost drivers and challenge engineering and commercial assumptions.
• Proven stakeholder management across engineering, commercial, risk, and legal functions in a matrix organization.
• Ability to lead value engineering from analysis and decision‑making through to execution.
• Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus.
• Willingness to travel to suppliers and other office locations as required.
• Permanent employment in an international company where you make a difference in the renewable energy sector.
• Flexible ways of working: Mobile office regulation of 40% per week.
• Enjoy your vacation of 30 days, extended with possible unpaid vacation days.
• A modern work environment with open doors and room for your own ideas in a friendly, modern working environment.
• Learning and Development Opportunities to support your personal and professional growth.
• Our company celebrations, team events and get‑togethers are extraordinary.
• We care for your wellbeing: our Employee Assistance Program offers training and counselling to support your wellbeing.
• Other employee benefits depending on location: capital‑forming benefits, subsidized company pension plan, company bicycle leasing (business bike) and company fitness (EGYM Wellpass).