What to Expect

Tesla is seeking a Technical Program Manager on the Vehicle Assembly team to be part of a world-class team of Engineers that are responsible for designing and building the vehicle assembly equipment at the Tesla factories. As a Technical Program Manager, you are responsible for managing technical projects from “cradle to grave”. This includes driving the design and implementation of new manufacturing lines globally across various vehicle assembly shops for new or existing products. Program Managers own driving the scope, schedule, implementation and cost of the entire program as well as additional functions such as vendor relations, stakeholder management and report outs to leaders.

The key objective of the Vehicle Assembly team is developing new and innovative solutions in the factory and help Tesla achieve its ambitious manufacturing goals. All these manufacturing processes will be initially planned, assembled and tested at our Tesla facilities in North America or other factories/facilities around the world.

What You’ll Do
Define new program goals and align on common strategy in accordance across the manufacturing organizations
“Concept to completion” ownership of projects from project ideation, validation and production execution while work collaboratively with all engineering stakeholders (project engineering, industrial engineering, design, controls, software etc.) through the various stages of the project: Concept development, prototype testing, engineering design, system build, integration, and testing
Drive vendor partnership working closely with supply chain and purchasing team and ensure alignment on engineering requirements, scope, schedule and cost
Drive product requirements and manufacturing solutions with all internal stakeholders such as infrastructure, logistics, controls, software and manufacturing engineering teams for the success of the project
Coordinate with internal operations during the install, commission, testing and integration phases of the project while seting goals, tracking deliverables, identifing risk and drive mitigations across all stages of the project
Own execution and completion of multiple programs/projects, as needed while continuously develop and adapt processes and methodologies to the team’s needs
Own report-outs for all projects, highlighting status, risks, mitigations and opportunities across all levels of management/functions within Tesla while managing road-map of milestones working within the framework of the overall program
What You’ll Bring
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
Experience in technical program or project management, ideally with multiple delivered projects of medium ($1-25M+) to large sized capital equipment systems
Experience developing processes and methodologies to suit specific engineering workflows desired
Technical understanding of manufacturing processes – low, medium and high volume
Knowledge of JIRA and diverse continuous integration workflows is a plus

Fremont, California

Full time