Manufacturing Engineer, High Pressure Die Casting

Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy. Revolutionary strategies and products were developed within a few years and successfully launched on a large scale. This is only possible through extraordinary speed, innovation and efficiency.

Gigafactory Berlin forms the perfect basis for rolling out Tesla's incredible success story in Europe. The most important pillar for this are our employees. Their passion, motivation and engagement ensure that we achieve our goals. We are looking for you to continue and expand this success story together.

The Role

Tesla is looking for a highly motivated Manufacturing Engineer to Design new High Pressure Die Casting Lines and Facilities. This will include Specifying and Laying out new Equipment, such as Melt Furnaces, Die Cast Machines, Trimming Stations and Finishing lines.  In addition to specifying and procuring equipment, there will also be numerous items, e.g. fixtures, to design and fabricate in-house.

The responsible Engineer will then follow up the Fabrication, Installation, Integration, Commissioning and Ramping the Lines to the point of hand over to a Sustaining Production Operations organization.  Handover will require demonstration of assumed equipment performance (OEE), with all supporting documentation, such as Work Instructions, Maintenance Procedures, etc.  Following hand over, the Engineer will move on to development of the next line, but in many cases, multiple lines will be in various stages of development simultaneously, so effective multitasking and time management of dynamic priorities is a key.

• Taking leadership in manufacturing design and process optimization with leading Design for Manufacturability to integrate early manufacturing considerations.
• Design cell layout, manufacturing equipment and fixtures (2D and 3D).
• Develop manufacturing processes, Test feasibility of new designs, evaluate alternative process applications
• Optimize equipment for KPIs such as material flow, MTTR, MTBF, uptime, and ergonomics.
• Lead root cause analysis of complex technology failures during FAT or commissioning.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on in-house development of novel and complex automation equipment.
• Develop specifications and RFQs for custom automation equipment.
• Closely collaborate with external equipment suppliers on custom automation equipment design and manage integrators from equipment development through buyoff.
• Conduct safety risk assessments; ensure safety performance with effective solutions.
• Design production workstations for ergonomics and efficiency.
• Ensuring compliance with regulations regarding machine and occupational safety as well as environmental and approval processes during installation, commissioning and operation.