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The role

Tesla’s cell manufacturing engineering group is looking for a highly motivated Manufacturing process development engineer to accelerate our next generation battery cell manufacturing program. This role will be involved in development, commissioning and ramping of high-throughput equipment, while working in a cross-functional team to test, validate, and roll-out process and product changes.

The battery cell is a critical component in Tesla vehicles and storage systems. This role will have the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to our products. The work environment is demanding, fast-paced and incredibly exciting. The ideal candidate should be ready to push their limits, as they join in highly motivated and capable team to make unbelieve things into reality.

• Drive development, commissioning, and ramp of complex Mixing manufacturing process equipment.
• Lead statistical process control data collection and analysis to identify levers for product quality Improvement
• Become subject matter expert to drive process improvement including detailed troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Monitor changes/improvements with impact on product to ensure process sameness across our 3 sites
• Collaborate with new product introduction team to plan, qualify and validate new raw material introduction on existing production lines
• Develop and manage FMEA risk assessments to prioritize equipment improvement projects
• Work collaboratively with the equipment expert to ensure best quality product possible with existing equipment and provide feedback to drive further improvement
• Build training material for process handover to operation (production, quality and maintenance)
• Provide hands-on support to production and Manufacturing teams to run product trials.

• Either a BS with 6+ years’ relevant experience or an MS with 3+ years relevant experience in cell manufacturing processes, semi-conductors, or equivalent
• Strong process or chemical engineering foundations. Aptitude to learn
• Demonstrated experience ramping equipment into manufacturing – highly automated processes, powder handling system, dry mixing equipment, and data capture
• Structured thinking and problem-solving abilities. Proven through a number of root cause analysis following a data driven approach, statistical software (JMP) a plus
• P&ID, FMEA and MES experience a plus
• Experience in high volume manufacturing is highly desired but strong R&D experience across above field will be equally considered
Willingness to travel to US occasionally