Project Engineer, Cell Manufacturing

What to Expect

Tesla’s Cell Manufacturing Engineering group is looking for a highly motivated Project Engineer to lead equipment design, installation and commissioning projects from concept to execution. The role requires a highly organized individual that can take complex, ambiguous requirements into reality to build high-speed manufacturing equipment and factories.

As a Project Engineer, you will join a cross-functional project engineering team responsible for the technical deliverables, schedule, budget, work packages, interface management, project risk mitigation, equipment design and contractor scopes for all aspects of engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, and commissioning.

What You’ll Do

• This role will develop, scale-up and optimize battery manufacturing equipment, focused heavily on Powder Mixing equipment at multiple sites
• Responsible for leading the full design and engineering of Tesla equipment and factory design from concept to production launch
• Responsible for defining and leading engineering discipline scopes for internal and external engineering teams, including mechanical, pneumatics, automation, electrical, structural, civil, etc.
• Develops and interfaces with internal and external engineering teams, managing 3rd party vendor contracts and budgets
• Responsible for defining, creating, and/or managing engineering deliverables for multiple engineering disciplines (layout drawings, technical specifications, risk assessments, P&IDs, PFDs, One-line diagrams, etc.)
• Leads design reviews and manages cross-functional action items through to completion
• Responsible for field execution and manages resources at the site of the projects

What You’ll Bring

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams within Architectural/Engineering firms or design-build firms
• Experience leading engineering teams for large brown-field and green-field manufacturing projects with EPCs firms or in-house design teams
• Full understanding of all engineering disciplines and ability to demonstrate skills to manage engineering resources
• Proven record in delivery of IFB, IFP, and IFC packages
• Experience designing manufacturing processes or equipment in healthcare, laboratory, mission critical, and site infrastructure development project types
• Excellent communication skills with ability to understand complex topics/problems and distill the message clearly
• Pre-Construction Project Management experience
• Auto-CAD, Solidworks, Inventor experience
• Revit or Bluebeam 2D drawings experience is a plus