Site Reliability Engineer Lead, Plant Floor Systems

Lucid Motors • Casa Grande, AZ

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About The Position

Leading the future in luxury electric and mobility At Lucid, we set out to introduce the most captivating, luxury electric vehicles that elevate the human experience and transcend the perceived limitations of space, performance, and intelligence. Vehicles that are intuitive, liberating, and designed for the future of mobility. We plan to lead in this new era of luxury electric by returning to the fundamentals of great design – where every decision we make is in service of the individual and environment. Because when you are no longer bound by convention, you are free to define your own experience. Come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. Beyond providing competitive salaries, we’re providing a community for innovators who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more sustainable future, then this is the right place for you. The PFS SRE Lead is responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Manufacturing Plant Systems (MES, LMIS) across production environments. This role combines leadership, technical expertise, and cross-functional collaboration to drive operational excellence and system resilience.

Requirements

• 10+ years in IT Operations, SRE, MES support roles with Engineering degree in IT, Electronics or Computer Science.
• Strong knowledge of MES platforms- Rockwell FTPC.
• Strong knowledge of PLC- Rockwell and Siemens
• Experience with monitoring tools (Elastic APM, Grafana, Dynatrace), Automation (Ansible, Python), and CI/CD.
• Excellent Leadership, communication, and incident management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team of MES- focused SREs, automation specialist and monitoring analysts.
• Mentor team member and foster a culture of continuous improvement and blameless postmortems.
• Oversee the implementation of observability tools and dashboards for Systems performance and health monitoring.
• Lead incidents response efforts and ensure timely resolution of MES, LMIS related issues.
• Drive automation of deployments, health checks, and recovery processes.
• Collaboration with Development, Project teams to integrate MES into CI/CD pipelines.
• Work closely with MES & Ignition Developers, PFS Operations, and IT Infrastructure teams.
• Act as the primary point of contact for Plant Systems reliability concerns.
• Analyze systems performance trends and forecast future capacity needs.
• Recommend infrastructure improvements to support MES scalability.
• Ensure MES systems adhere to cybersecurity and regulatory standards.
• Support audits and documentation for compliance initiatives.

Benefits

• Lucid offers a wide range of competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, vacation, and 401k.
• The successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in Lucid’s equity program and/or a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing such programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees