What To Expect
Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy and our Energy business is at the forefront of this effort.

We're seeking an experienced Staff Quality Engineer to oversee the manufacturing of large stationary battery products, ensuring that products and the manufacturing processes meet the highest standards of safety, reliability, and quality.

To ensure the highest standards we are striving for built right first time and zero defect mindset, with a strong emphasis on continuous improvement, to guarantee that every product that leaves our factory meets our exceptional standards.

As a key player in our mission to deliver exceptional energy storage solutions to customers, you will collaborate with multiple engineering groups, manufacturing areas, and product teams to exceed customer expectations and establish world-class quality processes.

Our goal is to create a seamless, efficient, and reliable operations that prioritizes customer satisfaction, safety, and sustainability, while driving business growth and profitability.

What You'll Do

Accountable for the quality of incoming components and quality controls and assurance in production process and driving continues improvement

Responsible for solving complex technical challenges impacting internal and external customers by leading problem solving process utilizing methodologies such as 8D, Lean Six Sigma and Shainin

Lead cross-functional teams to safeguard and improve product and components quality including risk assessment, containment actions, conducting in depth root cause analysis, experiments and executing corrective and preventive actions including lessons learned for future products

Leading cross-functional teams to achieve and improve internal & external customer satisfaction, field reliability, nonconformities, scrap and improving first pass yield and additional relevant objectives and key results

Leading Advance Product Quality Planning for new programs including development of quality critical product, components and process requirement and characteristics including supplier qualification

Driving Design & Process Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) to identify risks and implement appropriate actions to mitigate this risks together with cross-functional teams including proactive and continue improvement of current controls

Identification and deployment of critical product/subassemblies/components and manufacturing requirements to ensure customer and production needs including supplier development

Develop, validate, implement and consistently improving effective quality controls across production lines in coordination with Design, Production, Operations, Controls and Maintenance teams

Participate in program, projects, design change management reviews to ensure product subsystem quality and reliability requirements are met including analysis, trials and validation

Assist development with dimensional analysis, statistical tolerancing and other methods to investigate the effects of part and process variability on system performance and manufacturability including process capability analyses to investigate and improve the ability of suppliers and production processes to meet defined specifications and quality standards

What You'll Bring

Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Materials or Industrial Engineering, or equivalent experience

Minimum 5 years of experience in manufacturing environment and Quality Engineering function

Minimum 3 years of experience with electro-mechanical assemblies, battery modules manufacturing preferred

Quality Engineering expertise including ASQ certification preferred (Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Six Sigma Green/Black Belt/Certified Quality Auditor/Certified Manager of Quality etc.)

Exceptional problem solving skills and expertise utilizing problem solving methodologies as 8D, Lean Six Sigma and Shainin methodology, relevant certification as plus

Specific training, fundamental understanding and demonstrated success in applying Automotive Core Tools and other relevant methods and tools (8D, FMEA, Control Plan, SPC, Capacities Study, MSA, APQP, PPAP, DOE, Hypothesis Testing, etc.)

Strong background and demonstrated success analyzing and interpreting large set of data including data mining, databases and scripting experience eg. MySQL, Python. Minitab, JMP or other statistical software expertise are preferred

Understanding and familiarity with Quality Management standards as ISO 9001 and IATF 16949

Bring broad technical expertise and background to work with cross-functional teams, including engineering, manufacturing, service engineering, and suppliers

Benefits
Compensation and Benefits
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction

Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits

Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution

Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna medical plan with HSA

Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits

Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays

Back-up childcare and parenting support resources

Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance

Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs

Tesla Babies program

Commuter benefits

Employee discounts and perks program

Expected Compensation

$97,200 - $172,800/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits

Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

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