Form Energy
Manager, Cost Engineering
$170K–$213K
Berkeley, CA · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years; people leadership experience or clear readiness to build and lead a team.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, industrial, or materials engineering, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads cost engineering for battery manufacturing, building cost models and benchmarking to inform sourcing, supplier negotiations, product design, and financial planning.
What you'll do
- Build should-cost models and benchmarking practices for materials, components, and equipment.
- Use cost analysis to support supplier negotiations and influence product and manufacturing design.
- Establish the cost engineering function, provide cost forecasts, and build and lead a team.
What they ask for
- 8+ years in cost engineering, finance, manufacturing engineering, or strategic sourcing, including should-cost modeling and supplier cost negotiation.
- Experience building or scaling a cost engineering capability.
- Fluency in activity-based costing, parametric cost modeling, and cost breakdown analysis.
- Track record of using cost models to change supplier negotiations and design outcomes.
Nice to have
- Experience in automotive, aerospace, electronics, or industrial manufacturing.
- Advanced degree or continued technical credibility.
Pay
$170,246 – $212,813 (base salary)
Tools
activity-based costing, parametric modeling, BOMs
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