Clay Smoak

Clay Smoak is an experienced manufacturing engineering manager at Proterra Inc since February 2022, with prior experience as a manufacturing engineer at Bosch from April 2011 to March 2022, focusing on scrap reduction, productivity, and problem-solving. Early in the career, Clay worked as a supplier quality engineer at Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick, P.A. as a law clerk and held a co-op position at Robert Bosch LLC. Clay holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University, earned in 2010, with a background in statistical analysis, change management, and mechanical testing technologies.