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Job Ref:  12435
Employer:  Tesla Motors.
City:  Fremont
State/Province:  CA
Country:  United States
Type of Employment:  Full Time
Job Description: 
About Tesla Motors:

Tesla Motors is a fast-moving and constantly-innovating young company in the San Francisco Bay Area. We design and manufacture advanced electric vehicles, battery packs, and drive systems that are changing the future of transportation. We are building technically strong, fast-moving teams that pride themselves on superior execution.
Job Title:

Staff Manufacturing Engineer - Casting
Department:

Vehicle Manufacturing Engineering
Description:

We seek a highly motivated engineer for a senior position in our Casting Manufacturing Engineering group. This group is responsible for developing and implementing the processes and equipment used to produce our advanced, high performance structural castings. These castings are critical to our advanced body structure and are a key component to our superior crash and handling performance. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to building a world class manufacturing facility right here in the Bay Area. Tesla is a demanding and fast-paced environment where you will work on a critical subsystem of an incredibly exciting product.
The Manufacturing Engineering team employs a combination of team-based and matrix-based organizational structure. Leadership is responsible for either product lines or specific functions within the team. The ideal Staff Manufacturing Engineer candidate takes pride in his/her own work and that of those under his/her formal or informal guidance. Analytical ability, organizational skills and great attention to detail are of paramount importance. This candidate is familiar with and appreciates an environment where individuals carry tremendous responsibility and where superior work is encouraged, noticed, and rewarded. This candidate enjoys work, thrives on daily interaction with high-caliber people and has a keen understanding of how to work with and/or motivate them.
Roles and Responsibilities:

Our new casting Staff Manufacturing Engineer will begin with a group of existing engineers and lead this cohesive team within Vehicle Manufacturing Engineering. He/She will be responsible for developing the processes and requirements to implement new products and/or in-house manufacturing capacity and then leading the team to execute these projects. He/She will also be responsible for providing design for manufacturing feedback to vehicle design engineers in order to realize superior design efficiency. The deliverable for this position is the handover to day-to-day production of capable and stable manufacturing processes and equipment. The successful candidate should be a skilled and experienced engineer and manager with a successful track record of organizing and growing engineering teams.
Process Development and Implementation
  • Ensure product designs are feasible for manufacturing including production efficiency and built-in quality capability
  • Performance of process analysis including PFMEA, capacity modeling and line balancing
  • Development of new manufacturing processes
  • Performance of manufacturing process comparative analysis
  • Performance of production process parameter DOE

Equipment Development and Implementation:
  • Collaboration with product design and quality engineers to create equipment capability requirements
  • Preparing new product internal sourcing costing to support make vs. buy selection
  • In-house development of manufacturing equipment, fixtures, tools, etc. to support early stage prototype builds
  • Specification development of manufacturing equipment for medium- and high-volume production
  • Management of suppliers during specification, design, buyoff and installation of manufacturing equipment
  • Characterization and validation of new equipment and fixtures for introduction to the production floor

Skills and Experience:
  • Proficiency in the following:
    • designing and costing mechanical equipment, fixturing, tooling and facilities
    • creating technical specifications for automated manufacturing equipment
    • utilizing overall project management tools including detailed schedules and budgeting
    • transitioning products from prototype to production desired
    • utilizing statistical process control (SPC)
  • Experience in the following:
    • generating detailed drawings from solid models for various fabrication techniques (Casting, Degating, CNC/manual machining, welding, etc.)
    • Aluminum Alloys and Metallurgy
    • Low Pressure and High Pressure die casting processes and production environment
    • introducing new products and new processes into a production environment
    • designing for manufacturability
    • interfacing with manufacturing execution system software (MES)
  • Ability to work in a fast paced environment with multiple priorities
  • Exemplary verbal and written communication skills
  • Solidly organized, with meticulous attention to detail
  • Experience in 3D parametric CAD (e.g. Delmia, SolidWorks, Catia) and 2D layout software (e.g. AutoCAD)
  • Mastery of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio

Qualifications:
  • BS/MS Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent)
  • 10+ years of combined career experience as a leader of engineers, as a manager of engineering projects, and as a hands-on industrial/manufacturing/process engineer working on casting manufacturing processes and/or equipment.

07/17/2013

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