Sr. Hardware Technical Program Manager, Body Structures
Lucid Motors
Our ideal candidate exhibits a can-do attitude and approaches his or her work with vigor and determination. Candidates should have demonstrated the ability to learn quickly and work effectively in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment and be excellent at multi-tasking.
Role:
- Lead and execute diverse projects for the body structures and closures engineering teams to create a unique product or result and drive positive change & business value creation.
- Represent our closures team in program meetings and build events.
- Gather high-level information and elaborate into detailed plans for our team.
- Develop and maintain product development timeline and resource requirements.
- Drive the engineering activities at the body structures and closures product level in accordance with the development timeline, including requirements definition, supplier selection, design release, prototyping, engineering testing, process development, DV & PV testing, APQP, etc.
- Chair disciplined project meetings to communicate detailed plans, understand critical path, follow-up on assigned tasks, and monitor progress on project objectives such as design deliverables that go into build events.
- Drive key decisions (technical, project timing, supplier decisions, change management, etc.) that impact system delivery.
- Take ownership and drive resolution of any blockers to successful delivery of the product, including:
- Technical issues during development or series production - work with responsible engineers to define and drive actions to resolve, monitor and report status to management teams.
- Supplier issues - monitor and escalate appropriately with supply chain and engineering teams to resolve.
- Organizational issues - identify gaps in resources, processes or roles/responsibilities and escalate appropriately with management teams.
- Manufacturing issues that require engineering support – respond to requests for support and escalate appropriately with manufacturing teams and engineering teams to resolve.
- Work cross-functionally with engineering, supply chain, new product introduction, manufacturing, and quality teams.
- Be responsible for driving and tracking all program and product change management activities.
- Contribute to the body structures and closures technology roadmap (including variants, product improvements, supplier changes, etc.) and impacts on technical specifications, validation testing, manufacturing, cost, etc.
- Define and implement new processes to enable more efficient delivery of engineering projects.
- Travel up to 25% of the time to Lucid Motors manufacturing or other locations.
Qualifications:
- Experience in automotive engineering product management, from concept to series production is desired.
- Experience driving multiple projects in fast-paced environments.
- Experience with body structures and closures components is desired.
- Experience creating and interpreting Gantt charts in MS Project, Smartsheet, or similar software.
Advantageous:
- Goal-oriented self-starter and self-motivated.
- Familiarity with Jira is a plus.
- Ability to simplify ambiguity, prioritize tasks, execute in stressful circumstances, and drive decisions.
- Rigorous, detail-oriented problem solving with a willingness to get hands-on where needed.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial.
- Detail oriented personality with a determined problem-solving attitude using an Engineering first principle approach.
- “A good PM fights to deliver” - Exceptional sense of ownership; you are expected to anchor on our mission and take accountability for our own and others’ actions unrestrained by role boundaries.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent from ABET accredited institution or equivalent project management work experience.
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