Sr. Maintenance Technician

About Lucid Motors Middle East

Lucid Motors is dedicated to creating advanced mobility experiences through innovation, driving the world forward with proprietary technology and software-defined vehicle architecture. The company's vehicles are recognized for their approach to performance, sustainability, design, and engineering. Lucid achieves this through deep vertical integration, with design, engineering, and production managed in-house across global offices and manufacturing facilities.

Position Overview: Sr. Maintenance Technician

The Sr. Maintenance Technician is a multi-craft professional responsible for ensuring optimal equipment uptime and factory efficiency. This role involves performing advanced diagnostics and troubleshooting, executing complex corrective and preventative repairs, and safely restoring equipment. The mission of this position is to deliver safe, capable, and sustainable Powertrain operations while accelerating local technical capability and launch readiness. This internship position is based in Makkah, specifically in King Abdullah Economic City, and requires 5-10 years of experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Diagnose interacting mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, sensor, motion, and PLC-controlled faults.
• Utilize schematics, I/O status, alarms, trends, and measurements to isolate root conditions without defeating safeguards.
• Support controlled backup/restore and component replacement under automation governance.
• Execute complex preventative maintenance (PMs), alignments, calibrations, condition checks, and rebuilds to defined acceptance criteria.
• Accurately record findings, measurements, parts, and follow-up work in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Lead field evidence collection and 5-Why analysis; implement approved countermeasures and verify recurrence prevention.
• Identify maintainability, spare parts, documentation, and training gaps, and escalate improvement proposals.
• Coach technicians and operators on troubleshooting, Autonomous Maintenance (AM) Level 3, safe work practices, and defect recognition.

Enterprise and Workforce Expectations

• Safety: Adhere to Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) procedures, guarding, interlocks, and High Voltage (HV) controls.
• Quality: Protect product conformity, traceability, and calibrated-tool discipline; contain abnormalities and preserve objective evidence.
• Delivery: Support stable flow, takt/cycle achievement, and rapid, structured escalation of constraints.
• Cost: Reduce scrap, rework, downtime, energy, and consumable losses through data-based countermeasures.
• People: Build Saudi national capability through coaching, cross-training, Individual Learning Unit (ILU) progression, and knowledge transfer.
• Continuous Improvement: Participate in tier meetings, 5S, Kaizen, Quick Response Quality Control (QRQC), and closed-loop corrective action.

Success Measures

• Safety compliance, near-miss/action closure, and zero unauthorized bypasses.
• Quality-at-source, traceability completeness, and repeat-defect reduction.
• Delivery/cycle or equipment-availability performance within the role's scope.
• Timely closure of launch, PM, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), punch-list, and improvement actions.
• Skills-matrix/ILU progression, cross-training, and Saudi national capability transfer.
• Data and documentation accuracy, audit readiness, and disciplined handover.

Experience Required

Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in maintenance or a related technical field.