Sr. Staff Cost Engineer

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Southfield, MI, USA
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Automotive
The Role
Leading the future in luxury electric and mobility

At Lucid, we set out to introduce the most captivating, luxury electric vehicles that elevate the human experience and transcend the perceived limitations of space, performance, and intelligence. Vehicles that are intuitive, liberating, and designed for the future of mobility.

 

We plan to lead in this new era of luxury electric by returning to the fundamentals of great design – where every decision we make is in service of the individual and environment. Because when you are no longer bound by convention, you are free to define your own experience.

 

Come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. Beyond providing competitive salaries, we’re providing a community for innovators who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more sustainable future, then this is the right place for you.


We are currently seeking a Sr. Staff Cost Engineer to support the Lucid Motors in all vehicle manufacturing commodities. The Cost Engineer will play a key role in providing product costs, process costs and cost driver analysis. This will ensure accurate, plausible should-be piece cost and tooling cost.
You Will:

  • Bring in depth technical knowledge and know-how of product processes and mechanics to drive should-be cost modeling.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Purchasing, Engineering, Finance and Operations to provide defendable cost estimating support for existing, changing and new parts throughout the complete vehicle.
  • Identify and build Cost Driver Models to assist in design and purchasing activities.
  • Mentor and help develop the Staff and Sr. Cost Engineers
  • Develop robust Cost Models to determine should-be costs across all commodities and for both green and brown sights.
  • Promote and Support Design-to-Cost activities in early product development cycles.
  • Develop defendable models for ground-up estimating of production tools.
  • Collect and maintain key cost driver data including raw materials, production labor, machine rates, process parameters, SG&A and Engineering.

You Bring:

  • Expertise. This is a position that will require you to leverage years of expertise in many different domains. Lucid will lean on this expertise is the development of our cost models and negotiations with suppliers.
  • BS/BA degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or finance discipline. Master’s degree preferred.
  • Minimum of 15 years of experience in manufacturing costing of three or more of the following: Electronics, Casting, Stamping, Assembly, Injection Molding, Battery manufacturing, Tooling. 
  • Expertise in Excel based modeling that is understandable and defendable; building detailed benchmark and what-if models for piece cost, tooling and engineering. 
  • Strong written and verbal skills as well as organizational and program management capabilities
  • Ability to deep-dive costs from both a top-down and bottom-up approach.
  • Experience in the Automotive Industry is required.

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To all recruitment agencies: Lucid Motors does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our careers alias or other Lucid Motors employees. Lucid Motors is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. 

 

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The Company
HQ: Newark, CA
8,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Lucid is the new generation of EV. Our relentless focus on innovation, luxury, and sustainability drives us into a reality where you no longer have to choose between doing great things, doing the right thing, and doing everything with the highest regard for efficiency and design. There were luxury cars, then EVs, now there’s Lucid.

Why Work With Us

At Lucid, we’re driven by a simple belief: the future deserves to be built without compromise. That means every role here contributes directly to setting new standards in technology, sustainability, and design. We’re tackling one of the hardest challenges in the world — creating electric vehicles that are as beautiful as they are efficient — and it

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