Associate Engineering Manager, Stator, Drive Unit

Tesla is seeking an Associate Engineering Manager to join the Stator, Drive Unit, Production Engineering team at Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg in Germany.  

We are seeking a servant, highly motivated, tenacious, and team-oriented leader to be responsible for the performance and development of a team of  process engineers while driving improvements in overall equipment efficiency, product yield, cost, and cycle time. The Associate Engineering Manager will lead by example and manage, support, and develop the performance of the team to ensure continuous production and enable world-class manufacturing of Tesla’s cutting-edge Drive Units. 

• Mentor, develop and lead a team of process engineers at Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg  focused on manufacturing of Drive Units
• Lead optimization of production processes to ensure safety and quality while maximizing Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) in cost effective means to achieve world-class performance levels
• Own, report on and drive improvement of area KPI’s including equipment availability, product yield, cycle time and cost
• Manage the strategy and deployment of improvement projects with a focus on Safety, People, Accuracy, Rate and Cost
• Coach and assist engineers and technicians in resolving unplanned down events and driving permanent RCCAs, using the 3D/8D process or Lean Six Sigma where applicable
• Make daily resource allocation decisions, balancing competing priorities, to support the engineering, maintenance, manufacturing, and production teams
• Serve as backup Engineer for all members of the team both to ensure zero gaps in coverage as well as adequately address issues of escalating complexity
• Foster collaboration among cross functional teams to develop, install and deploy new processes, and equipment
• Able to utilize structured problem solving techniques such as DMAIC, Ishikawa, Five Why (5W) or Eight Disciplines (8D) 
• Knowledge of Statistical Process Controls and it's application