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Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract.
As a company, we constantly challenge what's possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.
Role Summary
In this unique engineering Project Manager role, you will lead a team that is responsible for Rivian vehicles as they leave the paint shop ready for their adventures. As vehicles roll off the paint line, your team will shift the gears across multiples scenarios, ensuring standards are in place to detect, manage and fix any issues, diagnosing concerns, and ensuring that anything you find is fully resolved to the highest standards of quality and workmanship before the vehicle is shipped to general assembly. You'll also act a point of contact with engineering, quality, body, suppliers, TA, finance, T&D, and ME to ensure root cause is addressed and avoid recurrence, analyze complex data to suggest changes to products and processes to help the team improve. You will act as a link with support areas like TA, Finance, T&D, ME in order to develop and execute strategies that assure flawless quality, manage the change, act as mentor and coach for salaried and hourly crew to deploy lean manufacturing and data-driven strategies. The opening is located at our Normal, IL facility and reports directly to the Paint Sr. Manager.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Equal Opportunity
Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Rivian is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at candidateaccommodations@rivian.com.
Candidate Data Privacy
Rivian may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes ("Candidate Personal Data"). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.
Rivian may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our People Team, Finance, Legal, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Rivian affiliates; and (iii) Rivian's service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.
Rivian may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.
Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services.
Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract.
As a company, we constantly challenge what's possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.
Role Summary
In this unique engineering Project Manager role, you will lead a team that is responsible for Rivian vehicles as they leave the paint shop ready for their adventures. As vehicles roll off the paint line, your team will shift the gears across multiples scenarios, ensuring standards are in place to detect, manage and fix any issues, diagnosing concerns, and ensuring that anything you find is fully resolved to the highest standards of quality and workmanship before the vehicle is shipped to general assembly. You'll also act a point of contact with engineering, quality, body, suppliers, TA, finance, T&D, and ME to ensure root cause is addressed and avoid recurrence, analyze complex data to suggest changes to products and processes to help the team improve. You will act as a link with support areas like TA, Finance, T&D, ME in order to develop and execute strategies that assure flawless quality, manage the change, act as mentor and coach for salaried and hourly crew to deploy lean manufacturing and data-driven strategies. The opening is located at our Normal, IL facility and reports directly to the Paint Sr. Manager.
Responsibilities
- Analyze complex data thru six sigma analysis.
- Utilize engineering problem-solving techniques such as Drill down trees, 8Ds, PFMEA, Geometrical analysis, Pareto's, Regression, Cause and effect diagrams, SPC to troubleshoot line inefficiencies.
- Design, Plan, Adjust Master schedules for complex projects (Equipment, process, people) with demanding due dates.
- Plan and adjust labor and overhead for future programs.
- Conduct lean six sigma projects to reduce cost and increase line throughput.
- Negotiate manpower and budget with Manufacturing and Finance.
- Rebalance and allocate Labor according to operations Demand.
- Process auditing and confirmation for RIOS Standards.
- Conduct Workstation Design (Layout, time studies, Error proofing) to improve line flow efficiency.
- Analyze the production line to identify bottlenecks and rebalance the line as needed for increased throughput.
- Design and deploy Quality control and quality feedback initiatives.
Qualifications
- 7-10 years working experience in a Manufacturing environment preferred (preferably Automotive).
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, program management, or related STEM field.
- 5+ years Manufacturing Supervisory Experience Preferred (preferably automotive).
- Understanding of labor budgets, KPI's, and efficiency reporting.
- Experience developing departmental plans and priorities.
- Experience with problem-solving tools such as Drill down trees, 8Ds, PFMEA, Geometrical analysis, Pareto's, Regression, Cause and effect diagrams, SPC
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt preferred
- Experience in a high-mix, high-volume environment is highly preferred.
- Experience providing leadership to managers, supervisors, and/or professional staff.
Equal Opportunity
Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Rivian is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at candidateaccommodations@rivian.com.
Candidate Data Privacy
Rivian may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes ("Candidate Personal Data"). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.
Rivian may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our People Team, Finance, Legal, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Rivian affiliates; and (iii) Rivian's service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.
Rivian may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.
Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services.
