What to Expect

Tesla’s Cell Qualification and Abuse Test teams are looking for a skilled and motivated Test Lab Supervisor (Labor-/Industriemeister). The teams’ missions are to validate lifetime, reliability and safety performance of cells against requirements and standards. The team thus contributes to design and product validations. 

It's an exciting work environment with plenty of engineering resources and bright colleagues to collaborate with. As an industry leading company, Tesla offers the opportunity to work on state-of-the-art technology in a fast paced, dynamic, and high visibility role. 

What You'll Do

• Participate in as much testing as time allows, in order to understand test equipment and product behavior and become grounded in lab operations. 
• Perform and supervise test preparation activities (e.g. instrumentation, charging) and destructive teardowns for root-cause analysis.  
• Maintain high test throughput/efficiency and data quality. Drive globally aligned improvement as needed. Collaborate with internal or external stakeholders to realize improvements. 
• [As needed] Build, assemble, commission equipment and tests. 
• Own and allocate organizational tasks & responsibilities like creation & maintenance of procedures, SOPs, standards, equipment, inspections, lab commissioning, facilities, maintenance and staff trainings. 
• Enforcement of and compliance with occupational health & safety; chemical & environmental, electrical protection guidelines. If needed, introduce and implement relevant measures e.g. through creation of risk assessments. 
• Tasks require work with hazardous materials using mandated PPE and to set up and perform tests in person and in lab environments. 

What You'll Bring

• Completed vocational training (Berufsausbildung) or recognized equivalent education in Process Technology, Chemical, Medical, Environmental or Physical Laboratories (Chemisch-/medizinisch-/physikalisch-technischer Assistent oder Chemikant). 
• Completed additional training as an expert technician or master craftsman [Weiterbildung zum Techniker oder Meister] in a relevant technical field. 
• Experience with application and enforcement of German standards for safety (ASR/TRGS/TRBS/DGUV/VDE/DIN etc.) and proven ability to transfer standards into actionable tasks and outcomes. 
• Experienced with MS office tools (Outlook/Excel/Word/PowerPoint/ Project), Adobe products, JIRA and Confluence or willingness to learn their use quickly. 
• Ability to adapt to a constantly changing environment with new technologies, equipment and processes. 
• Analytical, structured, independent, team and goal-oriented work style combined with high flexibility. 

Additional preferred skills & experience:

• >2 years of relevant professional and management experience in a fast-paced laboratory, production or development environment. 
• Experience with test equipment for cell and/or battery testing (cyclers, environmental chambers, DAQs) or comparable experience with electrical test equipment. 
• Assumption of responsibilities under dangerous goods law/ordinance; particularly but not limited to packaging and vehicle loading.