Senior Manager of Body Engineering
- Overall: Lead the body engineering team to design a bonded aluminum support structure and composite cosmetic exterior panels for a unique electric RV
- Collaborate with other Lightship engineering teams to ensure proper mechanical integration of their content, especially closures, glazing, high and low voltage electrical systems, interior systems
- Work with internal and external partners to optimize the body structure and exterior panels to meet targets for structure, cost, mass, manufacturing and assembly, dimensional and cosmetic quality
- Support selection of suppliers and work closely with the chosen supplier to manage delivered part quality and delivery timing
- Develop and perform component and system level testing as needed to validate your designs
- Support the manufacturing team in the assembly of the body structure in-house
- BS Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
- 10+ years of experience with production-level vehicle body design; 5+ years in a leadership position
- 5+ years utilizing CATIA, to design vehicle structures
- 3+ years experience collaborating closely with Industrial Design teams to deliver class A vehicle body designs
- Highly organized: ability to plan and track progress for a large number of subcomponents through design, release, production and revision
- Collaborative mindset, dedication to excellence and completeness, clear communication style
- Experience within a startup or other small company environment
- Strong CATIA 3DX user
- Significant automotive body design leadership experience including dimensional control, sealing, fit & finish
- Experience applying lightweighting techniques, materials and processes to vehicle structures
- Experience with achieving aggressive aerodynamic targets on vehicle structures
- Lightship compensation consists of the yearly salary above plus equity, which gives you a stake in the company
- Healthcare, Dental, Vision
- 401k
- Flexible Paid Time Off - that we actually want you to use!
- 8 Company Holidays + the company observes a period of scheduled downtime during the end of the year for a week, allowing all employees to enjoy a break
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- $2,000 per year towards an RV trip of your own &/or professional development opportunities - we call this a LightTrip
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