Sr. Manufacturing Engineer

Job Description

Tesla is looking for a highly motivated Manufacturing Engineer to create manufacturing equipment and processes for our cutting-edge battery products. Battery development is at the heart of our company, and this is an exciting opportunity work directly the central challenge with electric vehicles – battery cost. Tesla is a demanding and fast-paced environment where you will work with a highly motivated team on extremely challenging projects.

In addition to developing manufacturing equipment and processes, Manufacturing Engineers work with cross-functional teams throughout the entire product lifecycle. You will work closely with Design Engineering, Quality, and Production to take battery design changes and new battery designs from initial concept through prototype development and into full production.

Job Responsibilities

• Drive ramp of new production lines by characterizing baseline performance and capability of each system and driving actions to maintain or improve performance as measured by product quality and tool availability
• Design and develop the manufacturing processes and equipment to ensure that methodologies comply with applicable standards, company policy, and all health and safety laws, acts, regulations and codes
• Generate and maintain documentation including machine and process specifications, drawings, BOMs, spare parts, PFMEAs, control plans, and process flow charts
• Develop manufacturing metrics and key performance indices and implement metrology to measure all critical quality and safety related process items
• Design the layout of production workstations for product flow, ergonomics, and efficiency
• Drive Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and develop specifications for custom automation equipment
• Closely collaborate with and manage external equipment integrators on custom automation equipment development from development through buyoff
• Validate and characterize new equipment and fixtures for production implementation
• Generate machine qualification checklists and manage the install, commissioning, and start-up of new equipment while balancing speed and safety
• Create manufacturing introduction and deliver training to Operations and Maintenance Technicians to ensure and seamless handover of new equipment

Job Requirements

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in manufacturing engineering (10+ years of experience preferred)
• Experience developing manufacturing processes from prototype to mass production
• Experience developing automated manufacturing equipment, including fixturing and tooling in 3D CAD (SolidWorks preferred, Catia is also a plus)
• Experience drawing machine or production line layouts in 2D CAD (AutoCAD preferred)
• Experience introducing new equipment and new processes into a production environment (APQP is a plus)
• Extensive project management experience
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally
• Experience in high volume manufacturing involving one or more of these areas is highly desired: roll to roll polymer extrusion, winding/rewinding, calendering/pressing, lamination, web handling, stamping, steel rolling/milling, airplane/rocket engine hydraulics, mechanics, battery manufacturing (li-ion, electrode, cathode, anode or other similar chemistries)