Manager, Cost Engineering

The role

This person will own cost engineering, including should-cost models, benchmarking, and negotiation leverage. They will work at the intersection of engineering, sourcing, and finance to shape product design, sourcing, and pricing.

What you will do

• Build and improve should-cost models for raw materials, fabricated components, and capital equipment.
• Establish cost benchmarking practices against industry best practice.
• Track commodity, labor, and overhead trends.
• Use cost models to evaluate supplier quotations and lead negotiations.
• Partner with product and manufacturing engineering to influence design-to-cost.
• Feed cost forecasts and risk into the Sales and Operations Planning forum.
• Establish tools, data structure, and methodology for cost engineering.
• Build and lead a team of cost engineers and analysts.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in cost engineering, finance, manufacturing engineering, or strategic sourcing, including should-cost modeling and supplier cost negotiation
• Direct experience building or scaling a cost engineering capability
• Fluency in activity-based costing, parametric cost modeling, and cost breakdown analysis from BOMs, drawings, or samples
• Track record of using cost models to change supplier negotiations and design outcomes
• Comfort operating with limited market data and building estimation methodology
• People leadership experience or clear readiness to build and lead a team
• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, industrial, or materials engineering, or equivalent experience
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving, first-of-a-kind manufacturing environment

Nice to have

• advanced degree or continued technical credibility

Benefits

• competitive salaries
• stock options
• 100% medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
• 80% healthcare premiums for dependents
• at least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents
• up to 20 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents
• generous vacation policies

Before you apply

• Relocation assistance is available

About the company

Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company. They are revolutionizing energy storage with multi-day technology designed to keep the electric grid secure and reliable.