Operations Manager, Drive Unit and Battery Pack

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

The Operations Manager, Drive Unit and Battery Pack will be responsible for meeting production forecast and ensuring policies and procedures are carried out to achieve established company goals. The Operations Manager will lead the Production team, with a focus on Safety, Quality, Shop Capacity and Cost. 

• Accountability of key shop metrics: First Time Through, Overall Equipment Efficiency, Safety Matrix, Quality Targets and Daily Production Plan.
• Support and meet all business plans, capacity & headcount targets, and Key Performance Indicators.
• Maintain high product quality and manufacturing yield while ensuring optimal use of resources and adherences to best safety practices.
• Help with implementation of and continued adherence to Lean manufacturing and 5S initiatives.
• Assess and analyze current practices and drives continuous improvement.
• Ensure consistency in standards and documentation; monitor and ensure compliance.
• Maintain and improve production processes based on KPI`s
• Monitor and evaluate product key characteristics.
• Support new product and material introductions. Interact with design team to coordinate new model launches.
• Develop, chart, track production metrics. Manage and trend production equipment.
• Make countermeasures for timely completion of project goals.
• Interact with Quality management team and Process team to correct, contain, and resolve vehicle quality concerns.
• Support and manage continuous improvement activities in safety, environmental, quality, cost, efficiency, and productivity objectives; provide feedback to management on issues; benchmark other organizations for best practices.
• Administer, coordinate, and comply with all Business Management Systems (BMS) and Environmental Management Systems (EMS) requirements.
• Enforce proper material management procedures.
• Leads in the interviewing, hiring, training, and decision making process for all new hires in the production supervisors and production associates.