Lucid Motors is looking for a highly motivated Product Line Quality - NPI Project Manager to work in a challenging and fast-paced environment where you will lead New Product Introduction activities for Mid-size and future programs. You will collaborate closely with Project Lifecycle Management, Vehicle Integration, Design Engineering, Logistics, Quality, Manufacturing, and other cross-functional teams to ensure the seamless integration of new products and changes without impacting plant production planning and vehicle quality.
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You Will:
- Manage a team of NPI project engineers to drive ECRs and programs from evaluation to execution, including engineering changes affecting a part used in the manufacturing process.
- Represent the Product Line Quality Corporate at the manufacturing plant.
- Act as a liaison between the Plant NPI and Product Engineering in headquarters.
- Drive NPI activities in new programs such as part readiness and line readiness, ensuring timely updates of MBOM affected by new parts.
- Ensure timely escalation for proper correction of critical items that represent a risk to a new program or current production.
- Participate in Engineering Change Request meetings to determine assessment criteria based on the nature of approved changes.
- Coordinate and ensure effectiveness of ECR for new parts trials, ensuring proper documentation and disciplined execution.
- Gain holistic knowledge of the product, production processes, and manufacturing technologies to understand and mitigate risks and recognize optimization opportunities.
- Work with cross-functional teams to understand critical actions necessary for successful introduction of new features, capabilities, and products, ensuring those needs will be met ahead of deployment.
- Maintain and communicate project timelines and coordinate NPI and project-related plant activities.
- Coordinate and manage all vehicle material cut-over activity.
- Manage the Manufacturing Bill of Materials (MBOM) for the Mid-Size programs.
- Continuously improve NPI processes and systems to ensure effectiveness, planning efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
You Bring:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering required, Master’s degree in Engineering preferred (Industrial/Quality/Production Engineering).
- 8+ years of experience in an automotive manufacturing organization (OEM) is a must.
- 4+ years of experience with Greenfield OEM is a strong plus.
- Experience and knowledge of product design is required.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and organizational skills.
- Presentation skills are a must.
- Ability to coach and train people at different levels of the manufacturing organization.
- Excellent analytical & technical writing abilities and a comprehensive understanding of Document Control, problem solving, and procedures development among other organizational processes.
- Project management capabilities are required.
- Working knowledge with AutoCAD is required.
- Strong knowledge of MS Office tools (MS-Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
- Creative, energetic, self-motivated, and highly organized.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced and changing environment and scalable organization.
Additional Compensation and Benefits
Lucid offers a wide range of competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, vacation, and 401k. The successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in Lucid’s equity program and/or a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing such programs.
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