Project Engineer Hazardous Waste
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Mid
Bachelor's
Grünheide (Mark), Germany
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Project & Program ManagementProject Management
About the job
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree, technical training, or comparable practical experience in engineering, environmental technology, waste management, chemical engineering, manufacturing, logistics, battery technology, or a related field.
- Basic to advanced knowledge of hazardous-material and battery-waste management.
- Familiarity with EHS compliance frameworks and waste regulations, particularly KrWG, REACH, and the EU Battery Regulation.
- Strong Excel, PowerPoint, and documentation skills.
- Ability to work with project-management and documentation platforms such as Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint.
- Experience in dynamic, cross-functional environments with multiple simultaneous priorities.
- Fluent German and English.
- Maintain and actively promote sustainability principles in daily work, in accordance with Tesla's global EHS&S policy and EMAS requirements, and promote a culture of continuous environmental improvement.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate assigned project activities across multiple departments.
- Maintain project plans, action lists, milestones, and open-issue lists.
- Follow up with stakeholders on agreed actions and deadlines.
- Organize and attend cross-functional meetings.
- Prepare meeting minutes, status reports, and action summaries.
- Ensure responsible engineers and/or team leadership receive relevant information.
- Support hazardous-material and special-waste engineers and engineering leadership with technical project tasks.
- Collect, review, and consolidate technical and operational information.
- Perform basic technical analyses and data evaluations.
- Prepare technical presentations, reports, and documentation.
- Contribute to creating and implementing standard operating procedures, work instructions, and process documentation.
- Identify technical gaps or deviations and report them to responsible engineers and leadership.
- Support coordination among participants in the battery-recycling program.
- Help consolidate information on battery-scrap volume, quality, logistics, and recovery routes.
- Attend relevant battery-recycling meetings.
- Track actions and dependencies across work packages.
- Support communication among project participants.
- Support the interface between waste engineering and waste operations.
- Coordinate daily information exchange between engineering and operations.
- Support implementation of established engineering processes.
- Capture operational feedback and pass it to responsible engineers and supervisors.
- Support engineering activities related to battery-scrap quality, shipping, and logistics.
- Contribute to packaging, loading, and shipping documentation.
- Escalate deviations to the responsible engineer or engineering leadership.
- Support waste-volume forecasts based on production plans and historical data.
- Consolidate production and waste data.
- Prepare forecasts, reports, and dashboards for review by Projects Control and hazardous-material management leadership.
- Track deviations between forecast and actual waste volumes.
- Perform financial controlling and reporting.
Desired Qualifications
- A basic understanding of lithium-ion battery manufacturing or recycling is advantageous.
- Familiarity with waste regulations, particularly KrWG, REACH, and the EU Battery Regulation, is described as desirable.
About the company
Tesla makes electric cars and batteries that store power for homes and utilities, and it develops self-driving software and humanoid robots. In 2023, its Model Y became the first electric vehicle to rank as the world's best-selling car. Buyers order the Model 3 sedan, Model Y SUV, or Cybertruck pickup directly from Tesla instead of through dealers, and they charge on its Supercharger fast-charging network. It also sells Megapack and Powerwall batteries, runs a robotaxi service, and charges drivers a monthly fee for self-driving software that still needs their supervision. Tesla was founded in 2003, with Elon Musk as its lead early investor and a recognized co-founder, and it is based in Austin, Texas.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Austin, Texas
Founded
2003
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- Sales are growing again: revenue rose 26% to $28.2 billion in the June 2026 quarter, after falling 3% in 2025.
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- Growth isn't reaching profit: operating profit fell 57% to $398 million in the June 2026 quarter, a 1.4% margin.
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- Remote Work Options
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