Manufacturing Equipment Engineer - Cell Formation

Job Description

<p>The Cell Manufacturing Engineering team at Tesla is looking for a highly motivated Manufacturing Equipment Engineer to contribute to the development and design of battery cell manufacturing equipment. </p><p>Battery cells are one of the most complex and challenging components designed and manufactured at Tesla. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to Tesla’s world-class manufacturing facilities.  Tesla is a demanding and fast-paced environment where you will work on designing and developing a new generation of leading edge, high speed, ultra-high scale automated manufacturing equipment.  </p><p>In addition to developing and sourcing automated manufacturing equipment, the Manufacturing Equipment Engineer works with cross-functional teams to test, validate, and roll-out equipment to production.  The ideal candidate takes pride in his/her hands-on work, analytical ability, organizational skills, and attention to detail.  S/he appreciates an environment where superior work is encouraged, noticed, and rewarded and where individuals carry tremendous responsibility. S/he looks forward to learning an incredible amount on the job. </p>

Job Responsibilities

• Take equipment from a rough concept to full production
• Manage equipment suppliers or internal design teams through development and deployment milestones -RFQ, PO release, FDR, FAT, SAT, SOP
• Develop line layouts, station requirements (work content, automated versus manual, buffering strategy, redundancy requirements, etc.) and equipment timing charts
• Develop material flow strategy within factory and identify utilities needed and utility distribution strategy (PDPs, compressed air, process water, etc.)
• Complete process failure mode and analysis (PFMEA)
• Visit and evaluate equipment vendors
• Oversee equipment installation and coordinate with building and utilities team
• Provide all necessary documentation, including manufacturing instructions, spare parts lists, maintenance plans, electrical drawings, and related materials, train relevant team members on equipment usage, hand over the equipment to the sustaining production team

Job Requirements

• BS/MS Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering or equivalent. 3+ years of related experience developing and launching new manufacturing equipment
• Experience with large manufacturing lines implementation
• Experience with industrial engineering concepts—such as line balancing and timing charts
• Good mechanical aptitude and understanding of tolerance stack up
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally.
• Understanding of manufacturing equipment safety systems (Safety PLCs, safety category requirements, robot safety, safety guarding, light curtains, LOTO, etc.)
• Strong familiarity with structured problem-solving methodologies such as DMAIC, 5 Whys, Fishbone, and 8D
• Experience with developing layouts in AutoCAD and designing mechanical equipment, fixturing, and tooling in CAD (SolidWorks preferred, Catia is also a plus)
• Experience with vision systems, PLC controls (Allen Bradley, Siemens, and/or Beckhoff) and MES & database system architecture and data tracking Python and/or MYSQL is preferred

• Experience with following manufacturing equipment is a plus: Cell Formation equipment, automated storage and retrieval systems, conveyance systems, Pick-and-Place robot, CT scan.