Staff Supplier Industrialization Engineer, Exterior TrimActive

Lucid Motors
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The opportunity

At Lucid, we are creating exceptional mobility experiences through innovation to drive the world forward. Built on Lucid’s proprietary technology and software-defined vehicle architecture, our award-winning vehicles bring our “Compromise Nothing™” approach to the global automotive market.

What you'll do

  • Industrialization Strategy: Own the end-to-end industrialization strategy for assigned exterior trim commodities, including timing, tooling, capital equipment, fixtures, process validation, assembly readiness, Run at Rate, PPAP, and start of production.

  • Technical Leadership: Serve as the technical lead for complex supplier manufacturing challenges, guide cross-functional decisions, and establish scalable standards, lessons learned, and best practices across programs and suppliers.

  • Manufacturing Feasibility: Influence part design and sourcing decisions by assessing manufacturing feasibility, supplier capability, capacity, quality systems, and launch risk before business award and design release.

  • APQP and Launch Readiness: Lead robust APQP execution from early design through mass production, ensuring risks are identified, mitigated, and documented through process flow, PFMEA, control plans, capability studies, validation builds, and PPAP evidence.

  • Process and Quality Excellence: Develop manufacturing and quality control strategies using GD&T, tolerance analysis, measurement systems, statistical methods, test methods, gaging, and preventive quality tools to achieve reliable production performance.

  • Supplier Performance: Lead supplier audits, site assessments, capacity reviews, and corrective-action plans; monitor performance metrics and drive permanent resolution of process, quality, and delivery issues.

What they're looking for

  • Cross-Functional Delivery: Partner with Purchasing, Engineering, Manufacturing, NPI, Incoming Quality, Material Planning, Supplier Quality, and assembly plant teams to protect production, resolve escalations, and deliver program milestones.
  • + years of high-volume automotive manufacturing experience in exterior trim: systems, including experience in supplier industrialization, supplier quality, manufacturing engineering, launch engineering, or product engineering.
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.
  • Hands-on experience leading APQP, PPAP, supplier readiness, tooling and: process validation, Run at Rate, launch execution, and structured problem solving.