What to ExpectThe New Product Introduction (NPI) Technician Supervisor leads a large team of skilled NPI Engineering Technicians supporting product launches at Tesla’s Energy Manufacturing facilities including Solar Panels, Charging, and Residential products – all of the things that make Tesla unique. The NPI Technician Supervisor works with a diverse cross-functional team supporting every phase of Tesla’s product development lifecycle, including hand-building low volume engineering trials, executing extended product validation builds, validating equipment and process readiness for production launch, and training production teams as products launch. Successful candidates will demonstrate superior leadership and communication skills; a background in low volume, high variability production; and an excellent work ethic.What You’ll Do Build a strong, motivated team capable of consistently delivering high quality results against aggressive product development targets Allocate NPI technicians across multiple sites and shifts that have technical requirements, understand and determine priority with various competing program priorities Maintain and track teams KPI’s, forecast headcount needs based on current and future programs Work cross-functionally with program teams to ensure aggressive project milestones are achieved Develop hiring, training, and career progression plans for given team, while increasing individual skillsets Drive high standards in safety, quality, innovation, collaboration, teamwork, and trustworthiness Drive Objective and Key Results (OKR) initiatives, ensure technicians meet build timelines and objectives  What You’ll Bring Associate’s Degree or higher preferred (Engineering degree is a plus) 5+ years’ experience working in a manufacturing environment 3+ years managing teams of people in a production environment Experience in process development and equipment bring-up Knowledge of 5S, lean manufacturing or 6-Sigma principles Successfully managed teams in a technical environment and experience selecting and developing new team members Ability to develop and maintain performance metrics

Buffalo, New York

Full time