Production Planner, Energy

What to Expect
Tesla’s manufacturing operations team is looking for an experienced and driven Production Planner to work alongside manufacturing to support production goals at Tesla's Gigafactory New York location in Buffalo, NY. The planner will be responsible for scheduling production for Tesla Residential and Charging products. The planner will also be responsible for structuring and performing analysis to support the road map for production capacity changes on their assigned production lines.
What You’ll Do

• Support manufacturing by creating production schedules that reconcile production capacity with demand for fabricated components, following the factory’s master schedule

• Perform analysis that supports defining the roadmap for production capacity increases/change

• Work with manufacturing & support teams to establish & improve processes (e.g., production batch sizes, material transfer processes & controls) for just-in-time or line-side Kanban delivery

• Respond to unanticipated changes—e.g., production shortfall vs. schedule or material shortages: provide information, impact assessment, and options to downstream shops, revise production shifts and or mix as needed

• Generate and publish production performance metrics and forecasts showing risk to supply of fabricated components vs. demand

• Communicating plans, plan revisions, and production vs. plan to all manufacturing, support, and business stakeholders as well as assist in implementing systematic solutions to control inventory flow, minimize shortages

• Collaborate with Supply chain and Engineering to coordinate Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) to plan for material and product end of life and minimize obsolescence

What You’ll Bring

• Degree in Engineering or equivalent to in, Industrial Engineering/Operations Research, Supply Chain Management, or another quantitative field preferred, or equivalent experience

• Demonstrated high volume production planning experience in a manufacturing environment, ideally with 1 + years’ experience structuring and building analytical models

• Ability to spot process improvement opportunities and influence others to make change

• Good organizational and project management skills. (Role requires juggling long-term projects, daily tasks, and urgent questions)

• Ability to command the english language, both written and verbal

• Ability to recognize opportunities for improvement in operations and reporting/information visibility

• Familiarity with specific reporting & visualization tools such as Tableau desired as well as experience working in SAP or other ERP system preferred