Process Equipment Engineer - Battery Pack - Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg in Grünheide (Mark) bei Tesla

Process Equipment Engineer - Battery Pack (m/f/d) - Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg in Grünheide (Mark) bei Tesla

Tesla

What to Expect

Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy. Revolutionary strategies and products were developed within a few years and successfully launched on a large scale. This is only possible through extraordinary speed, innovation and efficiency.

Gigafactory Berlin forms the perfect basis for rolling out Tesla's incredible success story in Europe. The most important pillar for this are our employees. Their passion, motivation and engagement ensure that we achieve our goals. We are looking for you to continue and expand this success story together.

What You’ll Do

Motivate and inspire the team by creating an inclusive environment that promotes positive communication while overseeing day-to-day teams' operation and performance
Lead the team to establish and improve battery manufacturing processes and equipment, including estimated standard times, increasing machine availability, Health, and Safety, optimize headcount
Lead the team to develop process documentation and ensure it is kept current e.g., manufacturing instructions, standard work documents, PFMEA, and control plans
Lead the team to establish and improve equipment maintenance processes, including preventative inspection, corrective repairs, and overhaul planning/execution
Lead your team to utilize SPC data and tools to characterize all equipment processes for operating limits, robustness, and action limits.
Lead and drive the team for continuous improvement projects and standardization to support best in class lean manufacturing systems to maximize yield, capacity, and capability
Lead the team to generate and execute business improvement ideas for cost reduction, labor savings, material flow and safety improvements
Lead the team to develop, manage, and improve changes within Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and line side visualization to improve productivity
Lead supporting activities for engineering, maintenance, and manufacturing including 5S and Lean manufacturing activities, material handling improvements, production line improvements and configuration, and safety procedures
Define the short and mid-term priorities and assign / interfere the team member and follow the pdca path
Monitor teams’ performance and share the improvement suggestions to Production engineering manager
Develop, and coach the process and equipment engineering team
Define, check, and validate the design of experiment plans
Bring a concept of processes to life self-reliantly and in alignment with all stakeholders
Create, validate, and improve work instructions
Monitor critical performance parameters using SPC and define tolerances
Conduct root cause analysis, research in new technologies and prepare the investment case
Work closely with cross-functional teams like manufacturing engineers, operators, quality, EHS and manage suppliers self-reliantly
Sync with and drive global team for lessons learnt and to share critical information for efficiency
Lead critical continuous improvement projects to maximize yield, capacity, and capability

What You’ll Bring

Skills and knowledge according to the equivalent of a University Degree in Engineering, or related field
Perennial experience in this functional area in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
Ability to read, understand, interpret and challenge basic mechanical and electrical layouts
Strong understanding of fundamental scientific principles to apply for the interactions between different equipment and process lines and to solve problems
Strong communication and team working skills (e.g. sharing information efficiently) at all levels of an organization
Strong leadership skills
Comfortable providing clear and focused technical guidance to outside engineering. resources, as well as the Production Team
Being flexible and comfortable to work in a fast-changing environment and to work under time pressure with a hands-on mentality.
Expertise in bonding technology, preferably Atlas Capco 1k and 2k equipment.
Downtime analysis and troubleshooting in case of material and equipment fluctuations.
Support and expertise in implementing camera inspection Cognex or Keyence.
Ability to analyze and continuously develop processes in the area of equipment availability and quality.
Expert knowledge in robotics, especially Fanuc desirable.

What we offer

You will be working in our state-of-the-art Gigafactory where you'll solve the world's most interesting problems with the best and brightest people who share a passion to change the world. Tesla's compensation package includes competitive