Staff SIE, Exterior Trim

We launched Lucid in 2016 to build the world’s best cars and accelerate the shift to clean energy. Our vehicles deliver best-in-class performance *and* efficiency. Equally important, we’re building a world-class team: From our state-of-the-art factory in Arizona to our global headquarters in California’s Silicon Valley, we’re recruiting high-performing people who want to help decarbonize Earth. Join us!

You will collaborate in upfront part design development as well as roll up your sleeves with suppliers to create new manufacturing methods and control strategies to achieve ambitious specifications and ensure flawless execution during launch.

You Will:

• Be responsible to review, approve and manage all supplier industrialization activities including but not limited to program timelines, tooling, capital and fixture construction, tooling trials, assembly readiness, Run@Rate.
• Develop, manage and ensure a robust implementation of the APQP -Advanced Product Quality Planning- process with suppliers from the initial design stage through PPAP submission and the start of mass production.
• Work cross-functionally to collaborate and guide engineering development and supplier selection to award businesses to appropriate suppliers with the right qualifications to meet Lucid's requirements, expectations and timelines.
• Ensure supplier manufacturing and industrialization capabilities are considered in the part design phase and proper quality expectations are established and agreed.
• Work with suppliers to develop new manufacturing techniques or processes to meet design requirements.
• Develop quality plans, design test methods and gages, identify potential failure modes and process weaknesses, and drive preventative actions.

You Bring:

• 5+ years of high-volume manufacturing experience in Interior Cockpit parts such as Instrument Panels, Center Consoles, Door Panels, Ambient Lighting, Cross Car Beams, Molded parts, performing roles in Supplier Quality, Manufacturing Quality, or Manufacturing Engineering.
• Hands-on Supplier Industrialization, APQP, PPAP and Program Management experience.
• Excellent analytical abilities, technical writing ability, and comprehensive understanding of quality toolbox (IATF 16949, SPC, MSA, FMEA, DOE, GD&T, etc.).
• Ability to read and interpret schematics and drawings and in-depth knowledge of quality standards and specifications in the commodities assigned.
• Certification preferred - American Society for Quality, Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean Manufacturing, etc.
• Experience with tolerance analysis, mold flow, AAR approval.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Working knowledge of Smartsheets, JMP, Minitab, JIRA and Tableau is a plus.
• Bachelors degree in a related Engineering field, Masters degree is preferred.

 

 

 

 

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.