Manager, Vehicle Validation Workshop

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Czinger Vehicles is redefining the future of automotive design and manufacturing. Founded in 2019, we're pioneering a new era of performance vehicles through revolutionary, proprietary technology that blends human AI design with sustainable manufacturing. Our flagship 21C hypercar, celebrated as the world’s fastest production vehicle and for its record-setting runs at Goodwood Hill Climb, Circuit of the Americas, and Laguna Seca, showcases the innovation behind over 550 patents in AI-driven generative design, materials, and additive manufacturing.

With our three core pillars of dominating performance, iconic design, and revolutionary technology, Czinger is at the intersection of deep technology, consumer products, and high-performance branding. We invite you to join our world-class talent in shaping the future of the automotive industry. Here, you’ll be part of a groundbreaking journey that pushes the limits of performance, design, technology, and sustainability.

Czinger Vehicles is seeking a hands-on, detail-oriented Validation Workshop Manager to support the overall workshop operations of the Validation team and the activities related to test vehicles. This role involves managing and maintaining a safe, organized, and efficient workshop as well as managing a test technician team tasked with supporting a test vehicle fleet. The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring our validation workshop is efficient, well-supplied, and professional.

They will oversee the successful preparation and operation of the test fleet to ensure our vehicles meet the highest standards of quality, safety, and performance.

The ideal candidate will be a strong and efficient leader and manage a team of Test Technicians and the operations of the Validation Workshop area. The candidate should have a strong background in automotive mechanics, with a passion for high-performance vehicles and a commitment to excellence, organization, and process management. The ideal candidate has a mindset of continuous improvement and will be expected to implement process enhancements for vehicle repairs, maintenance, and testing activities.

The Validation Workshop Manager collaborates closely with the Validation and Engineering teams and is expected to occasionally travel for test and marketing events.

• Manage a team of Validation technicians and provide positive training, mentorship, and overall leadership for the team.
• Handle administrative duties of the technician team including timesheets, expense reports, purchase requests, and performance reviews.
• Maintain technician work schedules, task lists, priorities, and work-items to support business needs in a fast-paced environment, responding efficiently to changes.
• Build the technical skills and professional development of the technician team through proper training and work standards development to enable efficient support for the various technical teams.
• Support Validation engineering requests with technician work efforts around data acquisition from test vehicles, measurement, test setup, and test support.
• Ensure technicians are using proper safety equipment, PPE, and following safe working rules inside and outside of the workshop.
• Oversee the recording and input of all vehicle-related findings from the technician team before, during, and after any vehicle maintenance, repairs, or issue resolution.
• Manage technicians’ input and recording of engineering-related test data, issues, and test findings/results during and after test events.

• Budget and get approval for needed workshop supplies, equipment, consumables, tools, and engineering measurement supplies to support Validation and Engineering needs.
• Maintain a safe, organized, tidy, and efficient working environment and work rules for the technician team.
• Forecast the needs for the team to avoid parts, supplies, and equipment shortages and support test vehicle uptime and test readiness.
• Keep an accurate inventory management system regarding test parts, spare parts, consumables, testing…