What to Expect
What You’ll DoWhat You’ll Bring
Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy. Revolutionary strategies and products were developed within a few years and successfully launched on a large scale. This is only possible through extraordinary speed, innovation and efficiency.
Gigafactory Berlin forms the perfect basis for rolling out Tesla's incredible success story in Europe. The most important pillar for this are our employees. Their passion, motivation and engagement ensure that we achieve our goals. We are looking for you to continue and expand this success story together.
- Motivate and inspire the team by creating an inclusive environment that promotes positive communication while overseeing day-to-day teams' operation and performance
- Lead the team to establish and improve battery manufacturing processes and equipment, including estimated standard times, increasing machine availability, Health, and Safety, optimize headcount
- Lead the team to develop process documentation and ensure it is kept current e.g., manufacturing instructions, standard work documents, PFMEA, and control plans
- Lead the team to establish and improve equipment maintenance processes, including preventative inspection, corrective repairs, and overhaul planning/execution
- Lead your team to utilize SPC data and tools to characterize all equipment processes for operating limits, robustness, and action limits.
- Lead and drive the team for continuous improvement projects and standardization to support best in class lean manufacturing systems to maximize yield, capacity, and capability
- Lead the team to generate and execute business improvement ideas for cost reduction, labor savings, material flow and safety improvements
- Lead the team to develop, manage, and improve changes within Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and line side visualization to improve productivity
- Lead supporting activities for engineering, maintenance, and manufacturing including 5S and Lean manufacturing activities, material handling improvements, production line improvements and configuration, and safety procedures
- Define the short and mid-term priorities and assign / interfere the team member and follow the pdca path
- Monitor teams’ performance and share the improvement suggestions to Production engineering manager
- Develop, and coach the process and equipment engineering team
- Define, check, and validate the design of experiment plans
- Bring a concept of processes to life self-reliantly and in alignment with all stakeholders
- Create, validate, and improve work instructions
- Monitor critical performance parameters using SPC and define tolerances
- Conduct root cause analysis, research in new technologies and prepare the investment case
- Work closely with cross-functional teams like manufacturing engineers, operators, quality, EHS and manage suppliers self-reliantly
- Sync with and drive global team for lessons learnt and to share critical information for efficiency
- Lead critical continuous improvement projects to maximize yield, capacity, and capability
- Skills and knowledge according to the equivalent of a University Degree in Engineering, or related field
- Perennial experience in this functional area in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
- Ability to read, understand, interpret and challenge basic mechanical and electrical layouts
- Strong understanding of fundamental scientific principles to apply for the interactions between different equipment and process lines and to solve problems
- Strong communication (both German and English) and team working skills (e.g. sharing information efficiently) at all levels of an organization
- Strong leadership skills
- Comfortable providing clear and focused technical guidance to outside engineering. resources, as well as the Production Team
- Being flexible and comfortable to work in a fast-changing environment and to work under time pressure with a hands-on mentality
What we offer
You will be working in our state-of-the-art Gigafactory where you'll solve the world's most interesting problems with the best and brightest people who share a passion to change the world. Tesla's compensation package includes competitive salary and Tesla shares or bonuses. Typical benefits that are offered are a pension program, 30 vacation days, employee insurances, free EV charging stations and public commuting support.
