Tesla

Makes electric cars, robotaxis and grid batteries

Senior Technical Program Manager - Cell NPI

Program ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeFremont, CA, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A degree in a quantitative discipline such as Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, or Mathematics, or equivalent experience.
At least 6 years of experience as a Technical Project/Program Manager in a high-volume manufacturing environment, including cross-functional management and technical leadership experience.
Ability to solve problems and adjust priorities in a fast-moving, constantly evolving environment, including working with unstructured, incomplete, and ambiguous data.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Experience with pilot and/or mass-production manufacturing.
Strong engineering skills and a track record of personally solving difficult problems on meaningful projects.
Firm understanding of complex production-line operations, including industrial workflows between facilities and departments, line balance, Overall Equipment Effectiveness, and error proofing.
Understanding of manufacturing validation for complex new products across engineering teams and manufacturing centers or factories, including methodology, validation plans, and associated key performance indicators.
Understanding of manufacturing and production ramps, scaling products based on performance metrics such as yield, availability, and Overall Equipment Effectiveness, ramping through high-volume build campaigns, and scaling for manufacturability at production sites.

Responsibilities

Develop a deep understanding of product design and manufacturing processes to technically inform the impact of changes.
Establish and maintain validation standards; develop testing protocols; lead trials, builds, equipment readiness, and production readiness; lead reviews of documented test results to inform program conclusions; and maintain records.
Lead program trials and builds across different maturity levels, including A/B/C-Phase builds, development builds, and design of experiments, and coordinate cross-functional effort within existing manufacturing systems.
Support design and engineering teams in early development trials and builds and scale product and process changes from pilot to mass-production manufacturing scale.
Support design and process engineers by conducting data analysis and understanding how they need to align on change management.
Analyze and determine optimal solutions for coordinating changes with manufacturing, other company plants, and suppliers, including engineering and manufacturing bills of materials and change control.
Work with stakeholders to refine vague problem statements, define the scope of analysis, and use results to drive informed decisions.
Lead and support development-site roadmap strategy in planning and execution, including shared entity and resource allocation; apply technical understanding of program requirements to development-site production, resources, tools, and engineering planning to maintain a stable pipeline and achieve program build targets and deadlines.
Lead product and process changes and support development of manufacturing processes for cell production.
Lead testing and validation of systems, parts, and processes involved in cell production and manufacturing development, including trials and builds at pilot or mass-production-representative scale, program roadmaps, technical challenge forums, and cross-functional alignment on program priorities and key performance indicators.
Work with safety, design, manufacturing, quality, production, engineering, and service departments to ensure validation targets are met for each change, trial, or build before technology scaling or inclusion in official program roadmaps.
Manage introductions of major coordinated changes into manufacturing systems and factories through multiple product phases.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with New Product Introduction or product/process launches, associated change-management systems, and validation methodologies, including early-to-mature material or product phases.
Battery cell manufacturing experience.

Category	Manufacturing
Location	Fremont, California
Requisition ID	286523
Type	Full-time

Job Description

<p>The Technical Program Manager (TPM) of the New Product Introduction (NPI) team is responsible for leading product/process changes and supporting development of manufacturing processes for 4680 cell production. </p><p>The primary responsibility will be to lead the team in testing and validating systems, parts, and processes involved in cell production and manufacturing development, such as driving trials/builds on pilot/mass-production representative scale, maintaining program roadmaps, leading deep-dive technical challenge forums, and aligning cross-functional members to common program priorities, and KPI’s. Kato (Fremont, CA) is a development-heavy site where different programs are at different levels of maturity requiring technical engagement, cross-functional leadership, and lots of coordination. Working with safety, design, manufacturing, quality, production, engineering, and service departments, you will lead cross-functional teams to ensure validation targets have been met for each change/trial/build ahead of scaling a technology or introducing changes into official program roadmaps. Ultimately, you will manage introductions of major coordinated changes into our manufacturing systems and factories through multiple product phases.</p>

Job Responsibilities

Develop a deep understanding of our product design and manufacturing processes to technically inform impact of changes
Establish/maintain validation standards, develop testing protocols, lead trial/build/equipment/production readiness, lead data reviews of documented test results to inform conclusions to draw back to respective programs, and maintain records
Lead program trials/builds across different levels of maturity (A/B/C-Phase Builds, Development builds or DOE’s, etc.) and coordinate cross-functional effort within our existing manufacturing systems
Support design and engineering teams in early development trials/builds and scaling of product/process changes from pilot to mass production manufacturing scale
Support design and process engineers by doing data analysis and understanding how they need to align on managing change
Analyze and determine the optimal solutions for change coordination with manufacturing, other Tesla plants, and suppliers (including EBOM, MBOM, Change Control, etc.)
Work with stakeholders to take a vague problem statement, refine the scope of the analysis, and use the results to drive informed decisions
Lead/Support the Development site with roadmap strategy both in planning, execution, and shared entity/resource allocation. Apply technical and detailed understanding of program requirements/considerations to how we plan our overall development site (production, resources, tools, engineering, etc.) to ensure stable pipeline, and high attainment to program build targets and deadlines

Job Requirements

Degree in quantitative discipline (Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, etc.) or equivalent experience
6+ years of experience as a Technical Project/Program Manager in a high-volume manufacturing environment as well as experience with cross-functional management and being a technical leader
Experience in New Product Introduction or product/process launches (and associated change management systems, and validation methodologies) with experience in early to mature material/product phases preferred
Ability to problem solve and adjust priorities in a fast-moving and constantly evolving high growth environment; should be comfortable in an environment with unstructured, incomplete, and ambiguous data
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Experience with pilot and/or mass production manufacturing (battery cell manufacturing experience preferred)
Strong engineering skills and proven track record of exceptional ability (i.e., you personally solved difficult problems that moved the needle on meaningful projects)
Production Operations Knowledge - has a firm understanding of how complex production lines operate including key items such as industrial workings between facilities/departments, line balance, OEE, error proofing, etc.
Understanding of how the manufacturing validation process runs in relation to complex new products that stretch across various engineering teams and manufacturing centers/factories (methodology, validation plans, associated KPIs)
Understanding of manufacturing/production ramps, applicable to how to scale a product with respect to performance metrics (yield, availability, OEE, etc.), ramp through high volume build campaigns, scale for manufacturability to production sites

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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