Process Furnace Technician, Castings

What to Expect

Tesla is seeking energetic and highly motivated Process Technicians to join our Castings team. The Process Technician position is critical to ensuring the reliability and success of Tesla’s manufacturing operations, and you’ll have the opportunity to become a part of it. You will bring knowledge and experience in extreme elements. A strong drive to learn new skills and acquire knowledge will improve your likelihood to success both in this role and your personal career development at Tesla.

What You’ll Do

• Operate and load the stack melting furnace, Record the weight of the charge and additives in the Ignition-Vulcan System
• Cleaning and maintenance of melting furnaces to produce high quality metal, work with high temperature aluminum and furnaces, and transfer liquid aluminum from Stack Melter to holding furnaces through transfer ladles, while communicating improvements to engineering through Take Charges, that they believe are necessary to actively work on the implementation
• Troubleshoot furnace failures and equipment related issues and report to engineers and maintenance for support
• Prepare samples for periodic chemistry controls and reduced pressure/density index tests, understand the role of additives and their effect on the testing behavior of components and ensure metal chemistry and incoming materials meet Tesla specifications-verification of results before each loading of ingots in ignition-Vulcan system
• Lead the recycling and remelting process to reduce the cost of raw materials through the preparation and location of containers for the process, and to comply with the monitoring of the use of recycling material, you must follow a loading pattern established by engineering (the ratio ingot, crushed material, runner, biscuit, overflow, scrap parts), and to ensure that the degassing process in each furnace’s is working (verifying the injection of nitrogen/Argon) through porous plugs, lances, and diffusers)
• Maintain the inventory of foundry additives and tools at a good level and comply with the monitoring of the use of recycling material, you must follow a loading pattern established by engineering (the ratio ingot, crushed material, runner, biscuit, overflow, scrap parts)
• Clean and recycle the dross bins and maintain a safe and clean work environment around stacks melting and holding furnaces

What You’ll Bring

• Ability to manage workload while contributing to a positive, fast paced, team-oriented work environment, with at least 2 to 3 years of experience in a manufacturing / mass production environment along with knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and 5S principles
• Skilled with the use of a variety of hand tools and basic measurement tools
• Detail oriented with strong record-keeping and organizational skills
• Skilled with common workplace software (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Minitab)
• Must have command of the English language, both written and verbal
• Associate degree or technical certificate is a plus
• Forklift driving is a plus