Staff Supplier Industrialization Engineer, Exterior Trim

About Lucid
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. That means refusing to choose between performance and sustainability, design and engineering, ambition and integrity. In Lucid Air and Lucid Gravity, we have designed and built vehicles that have redefined their segments, combining exceptional range, performance, design, and expansive space in a single experience.
We achieve this through deep vertical integration, with design, engineering, and production happening in-house across our global offices and manufacturing facilities. Our teams come from industries around the world, united by a shared commitment to excellence. By refusing to settle, you can help redefine what’s possible and shape the future of mobility.
We are seeking a Staff Supplier Industrialization Engineer to lead the industrialization of exterior trim systems from early design development through production launch and sustained manufacturing performance. This staff-level individual contributor will provide technical leadership across supplier selection, manufacturing feasibility, tooling readiness, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), capacity validation, and issue resolution. You will influence product and process decisions across internal teams and supplier organizations, while developing scalable standards and control strategies for complex exterior components. In the first 12 months, success will include establishing clear industrialization plans, reducing supplier and launch risk, achieving production readiness, and ensuring assigned suppliers consistently meet Lucid's quality, timing, and capacity expectations. This role offers direct ownership of highly visible components and the opportunity to shape manufacturing methods that bring distinctive exterior designs to production.
What You'll Own
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.
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.
What You Bring
Required Qualifications