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Rivian

Makes electric pickups, SUVs and delivery vans

Test Resource Manager

Business OperationsUpdated on Nov 12
Full-timeTustin, CA, USA$137.8k - $172.2kIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent hands-on experience in powertrain testing, lab operations, or test resource planning.
  • Strong experience working in test cells, dynamometer environments, or other complex automotive test facilities.
  • Experience planning and coordinating laboratory testing activities across multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
  • Familiarity with electrified powertrain systems, including motors, inverters, gearboxes, propulsion systems, and thermal support systems.
  • Working knowledge of instrumentation, test setup, error-proofing, and mechanical integration required to support robust testing.
  • Experience with environmental, health, and safety requirements in lab environments, including risk assessments and safe system-of-work practices.
  • Strong organizational skills, sound judgment, and the ability to react quickly to unplanned changes in test demand, capacity, or hardware availability.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, validation, and operations teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the end-to-end intake, review, and prioritization of test requests, ensuring scope, technical requirements, and project timing are clearly defined before scheduling across multiple sites.
  • Collaborate with site leads to identify execution limitations and refine the master schedule, ensuring deliverables meet high-quality standards and supporting development milestones.
  • Perform scenario-based capacity modeling to provide leadership with data-driven trade-offs between conflicting test programs, proactively forecast bottlenecks, and offer actionable recommendations.
  • Create long-term facility utilization forecasts to align lab capabilities, equipment, and infrastructure with future testing demands, technology roadmaps, and program requirements.
  • Partner with diverse teams to cultivate a demand pipeline and maximize the technical impact of Powertrain lab assets across the organization.
  • Own, develop, and communicate the master lab schedule, optimizing test resource usage while balancing program urgency, hardware availability, lab team capacity, and stakeholder priorities.
  • Coordinate with the wider testing team to secure interface hardware ahead of schedule, ensuring fixtures, coolant setups, adapters, wiring, and halfshafts are available before the test article arrives.
  • Act as the primary operational point of contact for new Powertrain test facility requests and respond to changes in test demand, capacity, or hardware availability.
  • Act as the business owner for lab management systems, translating operational pain points into technical requirements for tools, dashboards, and reporting methods.
  • Build data-driven tools to analyze upcoming schedules, track test cell operating status, monitor key performance indicators, and identify bottlenecks early.
  • Monitor and communicate progress against testing key performance indicators, generate recurring monthly operational analytics and performance reports for leadership, and provide accurate lead-time forecasts.
  • Coordinate regularly across Drive Unit, Motor, Gearbox, Vehicle, and Thermal Systems teams to align lab execution with program timelines.
  • Partner with engineers, validation leads, and technical experts to define test plans, fixture needs, and methodology improvements as new technologies arise.
  • Use retrospective operational data to identify continuous improvement opportunities that enhance data visibility and testing efficiency and support lessons-learned initiatives.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience building or improving scheduling, tracking, reporting, or data-analysis tools.

About the Company

Rivian

Makes electric pickups, SUVs and delivery vans

Rivian designs and builds electric pickup trucks, SUVs, and delivery vans, pairing off-road ability with electronics and software it develops itself. In 2021, its R1T became the first fully electric pickup truck on the US consumer market, ahead of larger rivals such as Ford and Tesla. It makes the R1T pickup, the R1S and R2 SUVs, and commercial vans in Normal, Illinois, and sells them directly online and in its own stores rather than through dealers. Its vehicles run on Rivian's own software, which gains features through updates sent over the internet, and most revenue comes from vehicle sales, with service and optional software adding more. Rivian was founded in 2009 and is based in Irvine, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Irvine, CA
Founded
2009

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