LCPA Team Leader

About Lucid Motors Middle East

Lucid Motors Middle East is dedicated to creating advanced mobility experiences through innovation, driving the automotive world forward. The company's vehicles are built on proprietary technology and software-defined architecture, reflecting a "Compromise Nothing™" approach that integrates performance, sustainability, design, and engineering. Lucid achieves this through deep vertical integration, with design, engineering, and production managed in-house across global facilities.

The LCPA Team Leader Role

The LCPA Team Leader is responsible for leading and coordinating the planning, execution, and reporting of Layered Control Process (LCP) Audits across manufacturing operations. This role ensures compliance with standardized work, quality control plans, error-proofing systems, safety requirements, and manufacturing processes. The Team Leader will ensure consistent audit execution, coach team members on audit standards, and drive accountability for process adherence within Lucid Motors Middle East in Saudi Arabia. This is an internship position requiring 0-1 years of experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the planning, scheduling, execution, and reporting of Layered Customer Product Audits (LCPA) across manufacturing, assembly, logistics, and quality operations.
• Ensure audit coverage is completed according to established schedules and organizational priorities.
• Coach, mentor, and develop auditors and team members to ensure consistent application of audit standards, methodologies, and reporting requirements.
• Verify adherence to standardized work instructions, control plans, PFMEA controls, quality standards, and operational procedures.
• Assess compliance with safety requirements, process controls, product quality standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Validate the effectiveness of error-proofing (Poka-Yoke) systems, process controls, containment actions, and quality safeguards.
• Review manufacturing operations for compliance with approved work instructions, process parameters, and operational requirements.
• Identify high-risk areas through analysis of process deviations, recurring defects, internal audit findings, warranty issues, and customer concerns, adjusting audit focus as needed.
• Review and approve audit findings, ensuring accurate documentation, objective assessments, and timely communication to stakeholders and leadership.
• Drive accountability for timely closure of audit findings through effective tracking and verification of corrective and preventive actions.
• Escalate significant quality, process, safety, or compliance risks to appropriate management levels.
• Lead follow-up audits and effectiveness reviews to verify the sustainability of implemented corrective actions.
• Analyze audit performance metrics, trends, and systemic issues to identify improvement opportunities and strengthen process compliance.
• Support internal quality system audits, customer audits, manufacturing assessments, launch readiness reviews, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement actions focused on reducing defects, variation, waste, and process failures.
• Prepare and present audit performance reports, KPIs, trends, and risk assessments to management and leadership teams.
• Promote a culture of quality, accountability, process discipline, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across manufacturing operations.
• Ensure audit resources are effectively utilized and aligned with business priorities and manufacturing requirements.
• Support succession planning, capability development, and knowledge sharing within the audit team.

Qualifications and Experience

• 0-1 years of relevant experience.
• Ability to lead and coordinate audit activities effectively.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, quality control plans, and safety requirements.
• Proficiency in identifying systemic gaps, escalating risks, and facilitating problem-solving.
• Capability to analyze audit performance metrics and identify improvement opportunities.

Work Environment

This internship position is based in Saudi Arabia, contributing to Lucid Motors Middle East's manufacturing operations. The role supports manufacturing discipline and operational excellence by identifying systemic gaps, escalating risks, facilitating cross-functional problem-solving, and ensuring timely and effective closure of corrective actions to sustain continuous improvement and product quality.