Tesla

Makes electric cars, robotaxis and grid batteries

Facilities Water Engineer

Water Resources EngineeringUpdated on Nov 9

Full-timeSparks, NV, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A degree in Chemical, Mechanical, or Environmental Engineering and at least 2 years of experience in water purification operations, including reverse osmosis or wastewater treatment systems.
Advanced knowledge of water purification technologies and system operations.
Operational experience in wastewater treatment, domestic water, and demineralized water systems.
Experience commissioning, starting up, and troubleshooting water systems, and understanding water chemistry.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Design, Operations, Maintenance, and Production teams and site tenants to ensure process, equipment, and asset availability and meet customer requirements.
Implement and standardize safety practices for water purification and wastewater treatment systems.
Analyze operating data and conditions to forecast inputs and outputs for power, make-up water, wastewater, chemicals, discharge water, and media replacements.
Respond to and support facilities operational process issues in a 24/7 production setting, increase process uptime, and minimize unscheduled equipment downtime for assigned assets.
Create, modify, and optimize standard operating procedures, programs, documentation, and site specifications.
Complete monthly system operational cost analyses and drive improvements based on the analyses.
Conduct research and pilot studies to drive capital expenditure improvement projects.
Monitor current system demands and capacity concerns.
Perform system analysis, including root cause analysis, failure mode analysis, capacity and demand management, and troubleshooting.
Provide input to short- and long-term strategic infrastructure planning to minimize production downtime associated with preventative maintenance, system retrofits, or factory expansion activities.

Desired Qualifications

Prior experience in a high-purity facility, such as a semiconductor facility, or a water reclamation facility.
Ability to use hydraulic analysis tools such as Pipe-Flo and reverse osmosis analysis tools such as ROSA.
Effective communication and cross-functional abilities.

Category	Construction & Facilities
Location	Sparks, Nevada
Requisition ID	280733
Type	Full-time

Job Description

<div class="MSWordContent"><p>Tesla is seeking an experienced and self-motivated Facilities Water Engineer to support industrial water production and distribution systems infrastructure for electric vehicle drivetrain and battery systems production at Gigafactory Nevada. You will play a critical role on our facilities engineering team supporting and optimizing domestic water distribution, sanitary wastewater systems, RO and DI skids for pure water production, and GFNV’s relatively new advanced wastewater treatment facility (AWTF), still in various stages of evolution and commissioning. The AWTF is designed to condition reclaimed water from GFNV’s water supplier into suitable quality make-up water for all industrial processes and to likewise recycle and extract suitable make-up water from the factory’s various industrial discharge streams (RO reject, cooling tower blowdown, manufacturing wastewater) while minimizing liquid discharge. As the facilities water engineer, you are expected to be working as a subject matter expert who is responsible for safety, capacity improvement, refining operational tools, process optimization, and structured problem solving on pure, industrial, sanitary waste, Reclaim, and domestic water streams as well as concentrated brine treatment systems. Significant expansions to the existing advanced water treatment facility are expected, which will create opportunities for the candidate facilities engineer to collaborate on the design, installation, and commissioning of further state-of-the-art treatment facilities. Come join us to help accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy! </div>

Job Responsibilities

Collaborate with cross functional teams (Design, Operations, Maintenance, and Production) along with site tenants to ensure process, equipment, and asset availability to best meet customer requirements
Implement and standardize best safety practices for all water purification and wastewater treatment systems
Analyze operating data and operating conditions to forecast system inputs/outputs for power, make-up water, wastewater, chemicals, discharge water, and media replacements
Effectively respond to and support facilities operational process issues in a 24/7 production setting. Increase process up-time and minimize unscheduled equipment downtime for the assigned assets
Create, modify, and optimize standard operating procedures, programs, other documentation and site specifications
Complete monthly system operational cost analysis and drive improvements based on analysis
Conduct research and pilot studies to drive a CapEx improvement projects
Monitor current system demands and capacity concerns
Perform system analysis including root cause analysis, failure mode analysis, capacity and demand management, and troubleshooting
Provide input to strategic short-term, and long-term infrastructure planning to eliminate or minimize production downtime associated with preventative maintenance, system retrofits, or factory expansion activities

Job Requirements

Degree in Chemical, Mechanical, or Environmental Engineering and 2+ years of experience in water purification operations including reverse osmosis (RO) and or wastewater treatment systems
Advanced knowledge of water purification technologies and system operations
Operational experience in wastewater treatment, domestic water, and demineralized water systems a must
Prior experience in a high purity facility (e.g. semiconductor) or water Reclamation facility preferred
Experience with commissioning, starting up, and troubleshooting water systems and understanding of water chemistry
Ability to use hydraulic analysis such as Pipe-flo and RO analysis tools such as ROSA is preferred
Effective communications and cross-functional abilities are highly desired

About the Company

Tesla

Makes electric cars, robotaxis and grid batteries

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, TX
Founded: 2003

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