What to Expect
As an Associate Materials Manager for Production Control, you will be playing a critical role in ensuring the materials team is able to support the production goals of the Gigafactory. You will be asked to work cross-functionally, interfacing with engineering, production, and planning to ensure production goals are being met. 

What You’ll Do
Tesla people leaders are responsible for a variety of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) assurance functions, including ensuring their teams’ safety training is current, documenting EHS incidents, proactively correcting workplace hazards in the areas, and empowering others to continuously improve operations
Leading and managing people, projects and resources to optimize production for on-time delivery.  Coordinate material input to ensure on time delivery and output schedules, lead in the attainment of increased production efficiency and cycle time reduction and manage the flow of material through the supply base to support on-time delivery performance
Ensure timely and accurate material movements through all inventory areas (receiving, stockroom, floor, and shipping) at the lowest total possible cost while maintaining 99% inventory accuracy
Provide business analysis and process/system development to optimize transactions and provide required information to the operation in a timely manner to optimize materials management performance, and drive the development and implementation of internal systems and software
Support all planning and production scheduling; inventory control; warehouse operations; logistics integration; production planners and material planners (buyers) for Tesla’s manufacturing plant to ensure minimization of excess/obsolete inventory and increase annual turns and establish and maintain appropriate inventory levels for all products
Support interaction with internal customers and suppliers to obtain feedback, and ensure collaboration between Tesla, other operations, suppliers, and customers result in the development and deployment of supply chain solutions that improve quality, performance and service levels.  Provide feedback on suppliers’ performance on overall cost, delivery, and quality
Monitor and drive down overall cost of materials including freight expenses, administration expenses, and cost of materials management
What You’ll Bring
Ideal candidate will have 5-7 years of experience working in a manufacturing environment
Expertise in material distribution through the manufacturing process by orchestrating the efficiency of moving material from the warehouse through manufacturing operations in an organized fashion
Proven examples of continuous improvement in efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness of the materials function within high growth, fast paced, manufacturing environment
Proven success in managing department(s) responsible for some or all aspects of materials control functions
Demonstrated financial understanding of materials and supply chain performance
Strong communication and management skills combined with business analytics, process and system development and change management

Sparks, Nevada

Full time