Sr. Infrastructure Program Manager

Designing and building world-class Gigafactories, at record speed, is key to enable Tesla to scale worldwide. In this role, you will be asked to own portions of Giga Texas scoping, technical planning, integration of manufacturing layouts and drive the factory design and construction from concept definition, design to execution and production for both internal and external facilities. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in technical program management, factory engineering, manufacturing, construction, contract management, and site/real estate development.


Responsibilities

• Owns plan of record, scope definition, approval, strategy, and execution for onsite/offsite infrastructure programs, by integrating, negotiating, and aligning with key stakeholders, real estate, factory engineering, construction, procurement, finance, and project customers
• Owns the factory scoping efforts by pulling together the cross functional teams, understands their needs, drives technical planning, defines options/tradeoffs/cost/schedule/impacts, and secures alignment between the working and leadership teams
• Owns program communications to major stakeholders; Schedule, budget, costs, forecasts, risks, changes, operational readiness, and launch readiness and drives program funding efforts to meet timelines, with quantified options assessment
• Deliverables needed for procurement, costing, permitting, and construction, meet program requirements. Serve as main infrastructure program point of contact for program lifecycle
• Proactively identifies and drives continuous improvement of Tesla processes to improve program performances.
• Leads factory infrastructure team w/o any direct reports, negotiating and influence leadership to prioritize work efforts. Initiates technical studies such as feasibility and value engineering exercises to meet program scoping efforts, and options analysis

Requirements

• Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience
• Engineering experience on manufacturing and industrial projects from concept to delivery with >7 years of demonstrated experience
• Experience and understanding of building and manufacturing facilities design and construction
• Experience in multiple contracting mechanisms, real estate, and offsite contract management
• Advanced project management skills and demonstrated application of project and program management fundamentals to complex engineering problems
• Excellent communication and documentation skills with the ability to understand complex problems and distill the message into a clear plan
• Subcontractor and consulting engineer management experience

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