Location

Bangalore, KA, IN, 560048

Business Unit: Level Measurement Solutions

Posting Date: Nov 9, 2026

The successful candidate will work closely with engineering, operations, manufacturing, quality, and product management teams to identify, evaluate, and implement sustainable cost-saving opportunities throughout the product lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Cost Reduction Leadership

- Lead value engineering initiatives across existing product lines to improve gross margin and profitability.
- Develop and maintain a pipeline of validated cost-reduction projects aligned with annual business objectives.
- Quantify projected and realized savings and provide regular progress updates to management.
- Support strategic margin improvement programs across multiple product families.

Design-Based Value Engineering
- Analyze product designs, BOMs, assemblies, and drawings to identify opportunities for material optimization, component standardization, part count reduction, design change, manufacturer change and/or manufacturing efficiency improvements.
- Apply Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) principles to reduce product cost.
- Partner with mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software engineers to implement design improvements.
- Drive redesign projects that maintain or improve performance while reducing overall lifecycle costs.

Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with global engineering teams in the US, Europe, Mexico, and India.
- Collaborate with operations and manufacturing teams to identify labor reduction and productivity opportunities.
- Support product rationalization and platform standardization strategies.
- Participate in product design reviews and provide value engineering recommendations during development.

Business Analysis
- Conduct cost-benefit analyses and develop business cases for proposed changes.
- Evaluate manufacturing and assembly costs to identify improvement opportunities.
- Monitor implementation effectiveness and verify realized savings.




- Develop metrics and dashboards to track VA/VE performance.

Qualifications

Required

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of engineering experience in product development, manufacturing engineering, sustaining engineering, or value engineering.
- Strong understanding of industrial product design and manufacturing processes.
- Experience interpreting engineering drawings, schematics, and BOM structures.
- Robust analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working with ERP and PLM systems.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred
- Experience with industrial instrumentation, sensors, transmitters, automation products, or process measurement equipment.
- Knowledge of PCB assemblies, electromechanical systems, castings, machined components, plastic parts, and sheet metal fabrication.
- Familiarity with Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) methodologies.
- Experience supporting global engineering organizations.
- Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma certification is a plus.

Compensation

Currency: USD

Salary Minimum: Market

Salary Maximum: Market

Incentive: Market

Disclaimer: Where a specific pay range is noted, it is a good faith estimate at the time of this posting. The actual salary offered will be based on experience, skills, qualifications, market / business considerations, and geographic location.

AMETEK, Inc. is a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions serving a diverse set of attractive niche markets with annual sales over $7.5 billion.

AMETEK is committed to making a safer, sustainable, and more productive world a reality. We use differentiated technology solutions to solve our customers’ most complex challenges. We employ 22,000 colleagues, in 35 countries, that are grounded by our core values: Ethics and Integrity, Respect for the Individual, Inclusion, Teamwork, and Social Responsibility. AMETEK is a component of the S&P; 500. Visit https://www.ametek.com/careers for more information.

📌 Value Engineering Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 AMETEK
📍 Bengaluru