Project Engineer, Manufacturing Operational Excellence

This role reports to the project management office of Tesla's internal 4680 cell production organization. It is directly responsible for connecting the technical work in the factory to Tesla's overall technology and business objectives. Through coordination of a diverse group of stakeholders (product design, manufacturing, quality, and the production organization), you will take high level ambiguous targets and break them down into tangible, actionable, measurable projects. You will first give high level targets to different team in our production facility, then partner with each to build a bottom-up project list that delivers the target in the desired timeframe. Ultimately, you will be responsible for defining, tracking, and improving our production efficiency through specific yield, availability, speed, and quality improvement projects.


Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of the cylindrical cell manufacturing process
• Connect business objectives to organizational project lists and drive accountability
• Track and report progress to the executive team
• Distill complex highly coupled challenge down to the key variable
• Join the project team of the highest impact projects as an individual contributor to accelerate progress
• Define long term strategy to improve yield and quality, connecting action across the organization from our supply base to final inspection
• Define multiple solutions for each problem, and balancing risk across different teams (reducing upstream variation and increasing downstream process window)
• Building funding requests and tracking budgets when required

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in quantitative discipline (e.g., Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering) or equivalent experience
• Experience and interest in data visualization techniques
• Experience with complex analytical problem solving in a fast-moving, constantly evolving high-growth environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Comfortable in an environment with unstructured, incomplete, and ambiguous data
• Data driven experience in high volume manufacturing environment
• Strong engineering skills and proven track record of exceptional ability (i.e., you personally solved difficult problems that moved the needle on meaningful projects)
• Production Operations Knowledge - has a firm understanding of how complex production lines operate including key items such as industrial workings between facilities/departments, line balance, OEE, error proofing, etc.

Compensation and Benefits
Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• LGBTQ+ care concierge services
• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• Tesla Babies program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program