The Role:
• Be a significant contributor to a world-class vehicle engineering team by supporting with plastics expertise and owning polymer-related aspects of development
• Consultation with design engineers and suppliers throughout product development process, focusing on material selection, design optimization, part function, efficiency, and cost
• Extraction of material requirements from part specifications and material selection after holistic evaluation of plastic grades
• Utilization of understanding of polymers (e.g. structure property relation) to troubleshoot parts and processes
• Support of internal non-engineering teams and representation of Lucid material team in communication with suppliers (incl. on-site visits)
Qualifications:
• B.Sc. in polymer engineering, material science or related field
• 5+ years’ experience, selecting and developing plastics and composite materials.
• Must have worked in automotive development environment, ideally through a complete product development process
• Good knowledge of automotive injection molded materials
• Proven experience in selection of plastic grades for different applications across automotive commodities (e.g. interiors, exteriors, powertrain)
• Exemplary verbal and written communication skills
Advantageous:
• M.Sc. in polymer engineering preferred
• Experience with automotive materials for compression molding, and overmolding/back-injection designs utilizing luxury materials such as synthetic leather, suede, textiles, wood, and metal
• Hands-on experience with injection molding process optimization and familiarity with other plastic manufacturing processes and their part designs (e.g. blow molding, thermal forming, vacuum forming, slush molding, resin infusion)