Manager, Craftsmanship

Lucid Motors

5500

Newark, CA, United States

Posted on: 2022-07-20

Category: emobility

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Lucid is the new generation of EV. Our relentless focus on innovation, luxury, and sustainability drives us into a reality where you no longer have to choose between doing great things, doing the right thing, and doing everything with the highest regard for efficiency and design. There were luxury cars, then EVs, now there’s Lucid.

Leading the future in luxury electric and mobility

At Lucid, we set out to introduce the most captivating, luxury electric vehicles that elevate the human experience and transcend the perceived limitations of space, performance, and intelligence. Vehicles that are intuitive, liberating, and designed for the future of mobility.

We plan to lead in this new era of luxury electric by returning to the fundamentals of great design – where every decision we make is in service of the individual and environment. Because when you are no longer bound by convention, you are free to define your own experience.

Come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. Beyond providing competitive salaries, we’re providing a community for innovators who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more sustainable future, then this is the right place for you.

The Body Engineering team is looking for a Manager to take over Craftsmanship and Design Quality. This person will be in charge of perceived and design Quality of vehicles before they go to SOP and after.

At Lucid, we don’t just welcome diversity - we celebrate it! Lucid Motors is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, marital status, and any other characteristic protected under applicable State or Federal laws and regulations.

Notice regarding COVID-19 protocols

At Lucid, we prioritize the health and wellbeing of our employees, families, and friends above all else. In response to the novel Coronavirus all new Lucid employees, whose job will be based in the United States may or may not be required to provide original documentation confirming status as having received the prescribed inoculation (doses). Vaccination requirements are dependent upon location and position, please refer to the job description for more details.

Individuals in positions requiring vaccinations may seek a medical and/or religious exemption from this requirement and may be granted such an accommodation after submitting a formal request to and the subsequent review and approval thereof by our dedicated Covid-19 Response team.

To all recruitment agencies: Lucid Motors does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our careers alias or other Lucid Motors employees. Lucid Motors is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Role

Perceived Quality:

Build and lead a premier team of Craftsmanship Engineers to maximize PQ

Achieve maximum perceived quality with minimum cost/time. Make Lucid products the best cars in their class / price bracket

Provide independent oversight of the design planning process, design verification & validation activities, design transfer and product production, and performance in the field to ensure that all design requirements are optimally met.

Be capable of developing the tools and techniques (such as Cubing) to enable analysis and root cause of PQ issues within the design development

Support GD&T input/output, through design iteration and manufacturing execution to ensure world class gap/flush

Identify positive and negative attributes impacting the customer's impression related to fit and finish, appearance, quality of materials, surface quality and sound, through product benchmarking. This includes making objective targets from subjective perceptions.

Prioritize enablers with target implications to drive decision-making.

Provide expertise on customer-perceived quality to Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and External suppliers

Champion the integration of engineering craftsmanship into the LUCID product design process

Ongoing digital and physical assessments throughout vehicle development cycle.

Design Quality/Craftsmanship:

Build and lead a premier team of Design Quality SEs

Support the development of a Design Quality System to define, develop, and instill all strategies, processes and procedures to achieve and sustain quality and cost objectives.

Manage the Design Quality functions through all product development events up to and including the start of production while guiding engineering development to ensure DFM is considered in the design phase and that quality expectations are defined.

Support Quality reviews during vehicle development, prototype and manufacturing pre-production phases driving issues resolution improving launch excellence.

Work multi-functionally with the Design Studio, Design Engineers, Manufacturing and External suppliers

Support the CMF team to provide feasibility input on materials, finishes, flushness, gaps, angles, parting lines, sounds, all senses, etc.

Digital evaluation and aesthetic analysis on 3D data to ensure target achievement at design stage.

Review and strive for zero visible parting lines.

Establish tool draft guidelines to ensure texture integrity.

Be capable of reviewing pre-grain, post-grain parts and assess all customer interfacing components for AAR