Industrial Engineering Internship

Location: Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg  

Duration: 6 months   

Time type: Full-time  

Start Date: May 2025 

Tesla is looking for a highly motivated, goal-oriented Industrial Engineering Intern to contribute to implementing Engineering and Lean Principles to the manufacturing process at the Berlin Factory. Through a detailed understanding of the factory objectives and extensive collaboration with internal and external teams, the Engineering Intern will help improve processes to increase overall efficiency, capacity, and safety. Tesla is a demanding and fast-paced environment where you will work on a critical subsystem of an incredibly exciting product.

• Assist Industrial Engineers in developing and deploying efficient systems to integrate production associates, machines, material requirements, and information to achieve optimal manufacturing processes. 
• Collaborate with Production Management and cross-functional support teams to identify manufacturing constraints and execute solutions accordingly. 
• Assist Engineers and Production Management to plan work assignments based on production associate performance, machine capability, and production schedules. Knowledge of rules regarding alternative work schedules. 
• Ability to create multi-process workstation layouts, standardized work, staffing and process maps to execute a successful rebalance of workstations as needed. 
• Ability to prepare diagrams to illustrate workflow, product routing, floor layouts, material handling, and equipment utilization. 
• Ability to collect statistical production cycle time studies, analyze data, and optimize process. Working knowledge of 5S principles, Work Measurement, JIT, Kanban, and Problem-Solving Methods.