Description

Lordstown Motors Corp seeks to eliminate inefficiencies that exist in modern work by creating electric vehicles that radically improve the way work gets done. Cost effective for fleets, safer, and designed to be more productive than traditional commercial vehicles, Lordstown pickup trucks and fleet vehicles are built to fix challenges that limit modern work. With a focus on Integrity, Discipline, Collaboration, and Design & Innovation, we are working to design and build the work vehicles of the future. Join us to make a difference! 

Culture – as a Startup, we are looking for Leaders that want to create an organization and structure where you can make an impact, have your voice heard, ambitious to step up to dynamic challenges and be accountable, like everyone else in the company, for your results.

The Advanced Manufacturing & Launch Director will lead and take ownership of process planning of LMC products with a strong focus on cost and quality targets. The Director will evaluate and introduce new and innovative manufacturing technologies, as well as best use of installed equipment at the production site. Create plans that optimize work force utilization, space requirements, workflow, and product traceability. The Advanced Manufacturing & Launch Director must be able to utilize product and customer requirements to create specifications for tooling and equipment, and work with vendors to procure, setup and implement into the manufacturing facility along with the Manufacturing Engineers (ME) of the production site.

Responsibilities and role:

• Lead global engineering teams, responsibility for Industrialization Engineering, Advanced Process Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering.
• Lead and direct a team of engineers to deliver high quality repeatable processes and automated manufacturing systems to ensure the optimal engineered solution to meet business production goals with a strong focus on quality and cost targets.
• Works to identify and prioritize improvements in design, process and equipment automation for next generation products.
• Develops transformational process/technology/ automation roadmaps.
• Partners with business leaders, operations and supply chain, and manufacturing to drive efficiency and results through continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring strategic operational business results are achieved and the that we increase the capability of our manufacturing organization.
• Provides an expert level of understanding of integrated system engineering and execution to all levels of the organization.
• Facilitates the capital procurement process to execute projects.
• Serves as a technical interface between the manufacturing plant team and the program management and customer teams.
• Coordinates activities to achieve program deliverables, ensures successful launches, manages quality expectations, tracks tooling, and meets delivery requirements, while also leading plant APQP activities and product validation. 
• Leads program finance and budgeting, including material costing, bill-of-material creation and capital equipment requirements, provides product-specific support to marketing, including presentations, datasheets, customer visits, market research data, formulation of product business and launch plans, and develops sample and prototype manufacturing schedules with the plant scheduling department and support development.
• Develops and implements manufacturing strategies by utilizing product design knowledge, materials, tooling and equipment capabilities, assembly methods, quality control standards and product safety requirements.

Other core functions:

• Build and develop multi-year strategic plan driving implementation and innovation to achieve the vision and strategy.
• Developing engineering (process, equipment, automation, integration and assembly knowledge) capabilities within the COE and manufacturing.
• Planning and implementation of production process, equipment and assembly technologies, including initial capacity planning.
• Develop and implement strategy for process optimizations based on LEAN principles. 
• Implementation of large-scale process and equipment VAVE for Electronics.
• Lead the creation and adherence of global teams to industrialization strategy guidelines to support program and project launches.
• Ensure availability of process and equipment specifications and release the documents in collaboration with Design, Purchasing, Quality and other departments.
• Provide leadership and support for creations and processing of PFMEA with teams.
• Lead and support product launches with Industrial Engineering at Electronics Production Plants.
• Develop and provide leadership to pilot operations and New Product Introduction (NPI) in the plant.

Requirements

• 8 years relevant experience in process engineering, NPI, and product launches.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree Engineering, MS Degree preferred.
• 5 years leading global teams in execution of process and/or product development.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
• Strong knowledge and understanding of Automotive manufacturing and life cycle.
• Works actively across boundaries in a matrix structure and creates shared ownership.
• Skilled problem solver who works to understand root cause and develops sustainable solutions.

Lordstown Motors provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.