Job description
Role Overview
Manager, Body Structures, Closures, Harness at Lucid Motors. This Engineering Manager role leads the Resident Product Engineering (RPE) team supporting Body Structures, Closures and Low Voltage Harness across Lucid's production vehicle programs.
Company Overview
Lucid is creating exceptional mobility experiences through innovation, built on proprietary technology and software-defined vehicle architecture. The company operates with deep vertical integration, with design, engineering, and production happening in-house across global offices and manufacturing facilities. Lucid's award-winning vehicles including Lucid Air and Lucid Gravity combine exceptional range, performance, design, and expansive space while refusing to compromise between performance and sustainability, design and engineering, or ambition and integrity.
Role Purpose
The role exists to strengthen engineering ownership for production issue triage, containment, root cause analysis, permanent corrective actions and cross-functional escalation management. Success in the first 12 months means establishing clear issue ownership, improving response time to production concerns, reducing repeat issues, and creating a stronger feedback loop between current production, future programs and core Vehicle Engineering teams. This position provides direct influence over complete vehicle system robustness across structural, closure, mechanical and electrical interfaces in a fast-moving EV manufacturing environment.
Key Responsibilities
Engineering Leadership
- Lead the RPE organization across Body Structures, Closures and Low Voltage Harness, setting priorities and balancing workload.
- Develop engineers and build capability for current production, launch support and continuous improvement.
Product Issue Resolution
- Own engineering triage for production and field concerns, ensuring clear problem definition, risk assessment, containment and root cause investigation.
- Plan corrective actions and verify effectiveness.
Plant Escalations
- Serve as the engineering escalation point for build, assembly, quality, supplier and manufacturing disruptions.
- Make timely decisions that balance safety, quality, delivery, cost, manufacturability and customer impact.
Cross-Functional Alignment
- Coordinate Vehicle Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Production, Quality, Supplier Quality, Service, Supply Chain, Purchasing and Program teams to align ownership, timing, resources and closure evidence.
Launch Readiness
- Support launch, ramp and Safe Launch activities by ensuring production learnings are incorporated into design standards, validation plans, manufacturing requirements and future program readiness.
Operational Improvement
- Improve RPE standard work, escalation forums, issue management systems, reporting cadence and problem-solving discipline.
- Reduce recurrence and increase transparency.
- Develop processes, tools and standards to enable efficient use of resources within the team as per pre-defined scope and associated cross-functional engagement.
Qualifications & Experience
- 10+ years of automotive product engineering experience, including production, launch, sustaining engineering or resident engineering exposure.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of engineering leadership, people management or technical team leadership experience, including responsibility for prioritization, coaching and execution across multiple engineers or workstreams.
- Experience with Body in White (BIW) manufacturing, closure assembly, sealing systems, mechanisms, stampings, castings, extrusions, joining systems and Low Voltage harness routing or packaging.
Skills & Competencies
- Demonstrate expertise in structured problem solving for complex product issues, including containment, root cause analysis, corrective action development and effectiveness verification.
- Strong working knowledge of vehicle structures, closures and/or low-voltage electrical distribution systems, with the ability to manage cross-system interfaces in a manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated experience in escalation management efficiently with competing priorities between functions in the plant.
- Expertise in using failure mode management tools in product and process development lifecycle, including DFMEA, DVP&R, DFM, DFA, PFMEA and Control Plan.
- Exceptional communication and documentation skills.
- Knowledge of APQP, PPAP, Safe Launch, VMEA, FMEA, 8D, PPS or similar structured problem-solving and quality methods.
- Experience using Jira, PLM, issue management systems and production quality data to manage engineering execution and escalation transparency.
- Six Sigma Black Belt certification is preferred.
- Collegiate FSAE, BAJA or similar experience is preferred.
Additional Information
Lucid offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and disability coverage; paid time off; paid holidays; paid sick leave; and a 401(k) retirement plan. Salaried exempt employees accrue up to 160 hours paid time off. Eligible employees may also participate in Lucid's equity program and/or a discretionary annual cash incentive program. Incentive and equity awards, if applicable, are determined based on individual performance, role scope, market considerations, and overall company results, in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans.
Lucid Motors is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive workplace for all. The company considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable state or federal laws and regulations.
Lucid Motors is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. All applications must be submitted through the Lucid Motors Careers website.