Senior Project Engineer, Cost Modeler

About Whirlpool India Whirlpool of India Limited, headquartered in Gurugram,  is a leading home appliances company dedicated to enhancing life at home and inspiring generations through its trusted brands. The company operates three state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Faridabad, Pune & Puducherry, each reflecting Whirlpool’s commitment to providing best-in-class consumer solutions. Further driving innovation, the company has a Technology & Engineering Center, where India's world-class talent architects the next generation of home innovation. In the 2024-25 fiscal year, Whirlpool of India reported approximately INR 8110 Cr in annual revenue and employed 2193 people. More information is available at   www.india.whirlpool.in   About GTEC Transforming Vision into Reality: The Global Technology & Engineering Center where India’s world-class talent architects the next generation of home innovation. The team you will be a part of 
 You will join an elite, global cross-functional strategy and engineering task force within the CAA division at Whirlpool’s Global Technology & Engineering Center (GTEC) in Pune. Operating at the intersection of strategic cost transformation, competitive benchmarking, and product architecture, our team acts as an internal management consulting engine for a Fortune 500 leader in consumer durables. We partner directly with global design leadership, Global Strategic Sourcing (GSS), manufacturing, and product management units to unlock bottom-line value, optimize cost structures, and drive sustained market leadership. This role in summary 
 As an Analyst in Mechanical Cost Modeling , you will serve as a core analytical driver responsible for building highly accurate clean-sheet cost models, establishing zero-based costing frameworks, and conducting deep-dive competitive teardowns. Leveraging 7 to 10 years of deep expertise across plastics, sheet metal, and tooling, you will translate granular engineering teardowns into high-level strategic insights that directly influence product architecture decisions, target costing, and long-term margin optimization across global platforms. Your responsibilities will include 
 Strategic Clean-Sheet & Should-Cost Modeling: Lead end-to-end parametric should-cost model development for complex plastic components, injection tooling, sheet metal dies, and assembly processes in close alignment with Design, Manufacturing, and Plant GSS teams. Design-to-Cost (DtC) & Teardown Analytics: Direct competitive teardown studies and reverse-engineering initiatives. Synthesize complex teardown data into executive-level process insights, manufacturing sequence roadmaps, and actionable cost-reduction hypotheses. Strategic Architecture Alignment: Partner with the CAA Architecture Analysis team to build and maintain robust communication matrices and competitive benchmarking databases that inform internal Whirlpool manufacturing strategies. Supplier & Tooling Cost Optimization: Apply advanced process knowledge of injection molding, stamping, tooling design, and specialized polymer/metal processing to identify cost drivers and benchmark vendor pricing. Advanced Tooling & Analytics Integration: Deploy cutting-edge costing platforms, CAD/PLM systems, and data visualization engines to elevate team productivity and institutionalize analytical excellence. Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as a trusted advisor to global project stakeholders, presenting strategic cost insights to senior leadership and framing trade-off analyses between product feature sets, design complexity, and cost. Key Deliverables 
 Granular Should-Cost Frameworks: Detailed injection molding and sheet metal should-cost models and tooling cost estimation models. Competitive Teardown & Benchmarking Intelligence: Comprehensive teardown analysis reports highlighting design-for-manufacturability (DFM) and design-for-assembly (DFA) opportunities. Competitive Category & Architecture Strategy Reports: