Sr. Industrial Engineer

Job Description

Tesla is currently seeking a motivated and accomplished Sr. Industrial Engineer who will be the owner of Industrial Engineering initiatives for Megapack manufacturing operations. This role presents a unique opportunity to contribute to the world-class manufacturing facility in Brookshire, TX, working in a demanding and fast-paced environment to improve critical subsystems of an exciting product. The team is responsible for sustaining, ramping, and improving business critical new product lines through collaboration with Production, Manufacturing, Process Engineering and Development, Material Flow Engineering, Supply Chain, Construction and Facilities teams. Innovation and grit are expected. Through a detailed understanding of sales and demand planning objectives and extensive collaboration with internal and external teams developing individual components, this teams ensures that the overall operational excellence and achieves all of Tesla’s objectives.

This role will be based out of the Greater Houston Area (TX) and will require 90% travel to the Bay Area (CA) to support early builds and validation support for the next 6-12 months. Travel plans and reimbursement will follow Tesla’s Travel Policy and will be governed by the direct manager.

Please note as this travel is deemed as business critical. In the event employees trigger a reporting requirement in California, Tesla will cover the tax due in California per this business travelers policy. For any Tesla employee traveling from a non-income tax state to an income tax state such as Texas to California, Tesla will cover the taxes due via Tesla Payroll for business critical moves only. Please ensure all expenses are booked via Concur timely in accurately per the Travel and Expense Policy.  

Job Responsibilities

• Manage capacity planning standards for all Megapack manufacturing lines in the factory
• Create operating plans for all production lines, including labor requirements, breaking strategies, and shift schedules using linear programming, and assess headcount addition/removal requests based on line needs and requirements
• Conduct options analysis for existing line optimization and new line installations and estimate resource requirements for factory footprint expansion projects
• Work with internal operations and management teams to define scenarios for growth and formulate improvement strategies to help with product ramp
• Perform capacity studies and static sensitivity analyses to identify factors impacting line throughput (OEE, Headcount, number of material handling equipment) and make recommendations for improvement
• Perform discrete event simulation modeling and statistical modeling to influence key business decisions
• Lead continuous improvement exercises across various manufacturing functions
• Standardize metrics and problem solving tools
• Design assembly line, support space, and amenity area layouts using quantitative and qualitative evaluation techniques to facilitate smooth operations and optimize cost/sqft
• Lead projects to efficiently allocate and space inside and outside the factory to support value-added and support team operations

Job Requirements

• 7+ years’ practical experience working as an Industrial Engineer
• Degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated leadership and ability to drive projects with diverse teams in a manufacturing environment 
• Able to work under pressure while managing competing demands and tight deadlines
• Extensive experience with Excel Macros (VBA a plus) 
• Experience with automated/semi-automated manufacturing lines and robotics is a plus
• Distinguishing experiences/skills: 2D CAD, lean manufacturing, work measurement, analytics (SQL, Tableau), discrete event simulation (FlexSIM), operations research, lean manufacturing, scale manufacturing experience, MOST
• Ability to self-manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines
• Exemplary verbal and written communication skills