What to Expect
The Process Engineer will be responsible for process sustaining and continuous improvement on the production line, building Tesla’s commercial scale energy storage product. This position will be responsible for applying lean manufacturing principles to monitor yield, fallout, and critical parameters and drive necessary process improvements. Daily work will be highly cooperative in nature with regularly interactions with manufacturing engineering, new product introduction, quality engineering, equipment engineering, and production operators – strong interpersonal skills are critical. The engineer will place a significant focus on troubleshooting and root causing test failures and fallout, including data collection and rework process development
What You’ll Do
Electronics troubleshooting with PCBA, Altium and schematic analysis
Develop and modify line layouts, including material flow, waste reduction, and ergonomics, utilizing Lean Manufacturing best practices
Root Cause analysis of complex systems, and mitigation of failure modes via a systems approach
Analyze and optimize production processes to ensure safety while maximizing Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) in cost effective means while driving to achieve world-class quality levels
Lead NCM (non-conforming material) activities, including the documentation and troubleshooting of line fall out
Utilize structured problem solving techniques such as DMAIC, Ishikawa, Five Why (5W) and Eight Disciplines (8D)
Perform supporting activities for engineering and manufacturing including 5S and Lean manufacturing activities, material handling improvements, production line configuration, and safety procedures
Monitor and reduce process variation using techniques such as Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA)
Create and maintain Manufacturing Instructions, routings, and associated processes
Support 24 by 7 production operations
What You’ll Bring
Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering , Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Science, or equivalent relevant experience
Design for Manufacturability experience, Poke Yoke, and elimination of risk with design recommendations
Background in Automated Systems (Electronics, Computer Controls, Electromechanical, Fastening, and/or IT Systems) is preferable to support End of Line (EOL) troubleshooting
2 years experience developing and improving Process. Have a demonstrated track record of Overall Equipment Effectiveness improvement activities
Good understanding of Bill of Materials, Manufacturing Execution System, Specification Management, Change Point Management
Able to utilize structured problem solving techniques such as DMAIC, Ishikawa, Five Why (5W) or Eight Disciplines (8D)
Linux, Can, I2C, SPI or ETH preffered
Strong ability to work and communicate effectively with team and peers within a manufacturing and engineering organization. This includes excellent communication skills: written and verbal
Creative capacity for developing new ways to do things better, cheaper, faster in alignment with the Tesla approach to revolutionary product development
Experience programming in Python, C, C++ or scripting is nice to have

LATHROP, California

Full time