Manufacturing Development Engineer Battery Cell Assembly (m/w/d) - Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg

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-Brandenburg forms the perfect basis for rolling out Tesla's incredible success story in Europe. The most important pillar for this is 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 Cell Manufacturing Engineering team at Tesla is looking for a highly motivated Manufacturing Development Engineer to contribute to the development and improving of cell manufacturing equipment and processes for our cutting-edge Tesla Energy Batteries Cells. The Cell is one of the most complex and challenging components designed and manufactured at Tesla. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to Tesla’s world class manufacturing facilities.

Tesla is a fast-paced environment where you will work on a critical subsystem of an incredibly exciting product. In addition to developing working on ramping the line the Manufacturing Engineer works with cross-functional teams to test, validate, and roll-out equipment to production. The ideal candidate takes pride in his/her hands-on work, analytical ability, organizational skills and attention to detail. The candidate appreciates an environment where superior work is encouraged, noticed and rewarded and where individuals carry tremendous responsibility. The candidate looks forward to learning an incredible amount on the job.

• Drive development of innovative manufacturing processes and equipment, working in cross functional teams and with internal/external suppliers.
• Lead development projects from first idea, over proof of principle to implementation into high-volume productions lines.
• Work w/ internal Cell Design Team to drive Design for Manufacturability (DFM).
• Setup proof of principle (POP) trials, design required parts/fixtures, execute experiments and analyze results based on data driven diagnostics and analyzation.
• Own individual workstations/tools/processes, run/troubleshoot/recover by PLC, HMI or tool management software.
• Lead design reviews and generate documentation, including machine and process specifications, DFMEA, PFMEA, process flow charts, part drawings.
• Drive development of existing production equipment and processes by characterizing baseline performance and capability of each system and drive actions to maintain or improve performance as measured by product quality and tool availability.
• Drive root cause analysis through process and equipment expertise, correlate with upstream/downstream processes.
• Closely collaborate with external equipment integrators on custom automation equipment development
• Manage external equipment integrators from equipment development through buyoff
• Validate and characterize new equipment and fixtures for production implementation
• Generate machine qualification checklist and manage to install, commission and start-up equipment balancing speed and safety
• Create manufacturing introduction and deliver training to operations and maintenance technicians to ensure and seamless handover of new equipment

• Either a BS with 5+ years’ relevant experience or an MS in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or equivalent.
• Evidence of exceptional ability and a passion for Engineering, mindset according First Principle Thinking for Engineering.
• Knowledge of Statistical Process Control and its application, preferred.
• Experience developing and improving Process. Have a demonstrated track record of Overall Equipment Effectiveness improvement activities, preferred.
• 2 or more years of experience in a production environment and/or proven manufacturing development track record.
• Experience developing manufacturing processes for new and unique products.
• Experience developing (semi)-automated manufacturing equipment, fixtures and tooling in 3D (SolidWorks preferred, Catia).
• or comparable areas.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.