Design Studio, Design Quality Internship

4 Months ago • Upto 1 Years

Job Summary

Job Description

This 6-month full-time internship at Tesla's Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg focuses on Design Quality. The intern will be the voice of the customer, defining design intent and approving appearance parts. Responsibilities include coordinating with design and engineering teams, managing supplier relationships, ensuring quality throughout production, and leading communication with various stakeholders. The role involves travel to supplier locations worldwide and requires strong communication, detail-orientation, and familiarity with manufacturing processes. The ideal candidate possesses excellent color perception, understanding of DFM, and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's or Master's in relevant field
  • Excellent color perception (Ishihara & Farnsworth-Munsell tests)
  • Strong communication & detail-orientation
  • DFM knowledge
  • Manufacturing process knowledge

Job Details

What to Expect

Location: Gigafactroy Berlin Brandenburg

Duration: 6 months

Time type: Full-time

Start date: March / April 2025


The internship assignment

In this role you will be responsible for upholding the fundamentals of Design Quality as the voice of the customer and for governing the definition of Design Intent through managing the process of approving appearance parts for color, harmony, and appearance quality. The Design Quality Team interfaces with the Design and Styling Team to illustrate design intent while collaborating with the Engineering Teams to ensure that quality is built into the part design. You will work with Tesla Supplier Industrialization (SIE) to manage the supply base for timing, documentation (AARs), and color and appearance harmony reviews as the champion of Tesla’s design intent. You will lead a team that interfaces with General Assembly Quality Engineers and Production Control to ensure standardization and quality are upheld throughout production. You will facilitate the sharing of best practices and lessons learned while prioritizing work in partnership with executives, operational leaders, engineers, associates, and other key stakeholders.

 

The ideal candidate will possess high energy, flexibility, and excellent communication skills, with the ability to navigate compressed timelines and several cross-functional activities simultaneously. You will be expected to push beyond traditional limits, think creatively to find solutions to technical problems and inevitable delays to the effect of defining new processes and standards of the industry. This role is based in Grünheide in the Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg and travel is involved to supplier locations throughout the world.

What You’ll Do


  • Coordinate with the Design Studio / Color, Materials and Finishing Team on design intent for production
  • Assist with mastering for production: sign-off of new masters once master standard is approved, match to master development as needed
  • Support material development and manufacturing processes with consideration to benchmarking
  • Interface with Engineering on DFM reviews and define appearance quality expectations
  • Define appearance boundaries and outline quality improvement initiatives for manufacturing and production teams
  • Interpret customer’s perception of quality through all senses, conveying objective feedback of appearance, haptics, sound, and fit
  • Share institutional knowledge, verbalize design intent, and promote quality objectives throughout the organization
  • Coordinate visual reviews for all appearance parts at various stages including vehicle harmony
  • Manage Design Quality data (AAR) in supplier portal
  • Lead communications with texture suppliers for grained parts, defining grain maps, direction, reductions for draft angles, and zero parting line
  • Oversee supply base timing for pre-grain, post-grain, and overall appearance of appearance parts
  • Attend tool trials for appearance parts of plastic injection molding, casting, wrapping, filming, etc.
What You’ll Bring


  • Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's program in Industrial Design, Product Design, Quality Management, Material Science or a related field
  • Ishihara Color Blindness - Pass, 100% with no indication of color deficiency to red and green
  • Farnsworth/Munsell 100 Hue Color Acuity - Excellent Score, TES (Total Error Score) = 4 (Superior Discrimination)
  • Detail oriented and organized. Can manage data, timelines and tracking and follow through
  • Strong communication skills, ability to be firm and flexible at the same time
  • Ability to effectively communicate qualitative feedback
  • Knowledge of Colorimeter
  • Sensitive to appearance and color harmony
  • Some experience and technical knowledge of different manufacturing processes for appearance parts
  • Design oriented
  • Familiarity with DFM

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