The Staff Supplier Industrialization Engineer - Chassis Systems is a senior technical leader responsible for driving best-in-class supplier quality and manufacturing readiness throughout the product industrialization lifecycle. This role leads Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), design-for-manufacturing and assembly reviews, supplier process development, and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) execution for chassis structures and related components. You will guide suppliers and cross-functional partners through technical decisions, risk reduction, corrective actions, and launch readiness. Success will be measured by capable supplier processes, timely quality-gate completion, strong launch performance, and sustained production quality. This high-visibility role is ideal for a proactive, data-driven engineer who combines deep manufacturing expertise with strong program leadership and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced global environment.

What You'll Own

• Supplier Industrialization: Lead APQP execution from early design and sourcing through PPAP approval and mass-production launch, ensuring supplier processes meet quality, capacity, timing, and reliability expectations.

• Manufacturing Readiness: Evaluate and improve supplier manufacturing processes for chassis components, including metal forming, forging, stamping, extrusion, rolling, machining, casting, coatings, heat treatment, rubber processing, assembly, and quality controls.

• Design for Manufacturing: Lead supplier-facing design reviews and drive DFM/A decisions so chassis component designs incorporate manufacturing feasibility, process capability, quality requirements, and lessons learned before release.

• Change Management: Drive and track supplier engineering design changes, ensuring implementation plans, validation evidence, process documentation, and quality approvals are completed before production release.

• Supplier Performance: Conduct supplier assessments, audits, and site inspections; establish improvement plans; and use performance metrics and build data to drive measurable gains in capability, quality, and delivery readiness.

• Issue Resolution: Partner with Manufacturing, Incoming Quality, Material Planning, Plant Supplier Quality, Engineering, and suppliers to contain quality issues, protect Lucid production, determine root causes, and implement corrective actions and read-across improvements.

• Quality Compliance: Ensure supplier processes and documentation align with ISO 9001, IATF 16949, AIAG expectations, and applicable Lucid quality requirements.

What You Bring

Required Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in high-volume manufacturing or assembly environments within Supplier Quality, Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a closely related discipline.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field.

• At least 6 years of hands-on experience leading APQP and PPAP activities, including product and process validation, quality-gate execution, and supplier launch readiness.

• Demonstrated expertise in chassis components and relevant manufacturing processes, with the ability to interpret engineering drawings, schematics, specifications, and GD&T.

• Working mastery of automotive quality and problem-solving tools, including IATF 16949, APQP, PPAP, SPC, MSA, FMEA, DOE, DFM/A, and structured root-cause analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Engineering or a related technical field.

• Automotive supplier industrialization experience supporting chassis structures or related systems from sourcing through production launch.

• Experience auditing and developing global suppliers across metal forming, casting, machining, coatings, heat treatment, rubber processing, assembly, and associated quality controls.

• ASQ, Six Sigma Black Belt, or comparable quality certification.

• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint; working knowledge of Smartsheet, JMP, Minitab, JIRA, or Tableau.