Manager Paint Manufacturing Engineering - Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg (m/w/d)

Tesla; Grünheide (Mark); Vor Ort; EUR 80.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading electric vehicle manufacturer is seeking a Manager in Paint Manufacturing Engineering for their Gigafactory in Berlin-Brandenburg. The role involves leading a team to establish manufacturing processes and ensuring high-quality production. Ideal candidates will have strong experience in mechanical engineering, project management, and must be fluent in English and German. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to a world-class manufacturing facility in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of leadership experience in engineering roles.
• Experience in high-volume manufacturing processes.
• Ability to design and cost mechanical and electrical equipment.

Aufgaben

• Build and lead a team of engineers.
• Develop processes for new products in manufacturing.
• Provide feedback on design for manufacturing.

Kenntnisse

Leadership of engineers

Project management

Fluent in English & German

Statistical process control (SPC)

3D parametric CAD

Ausbildung

BS/MS Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

AutoCAD

Jobbeschreibung

Manager Paint Manufacturing Engineering - Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg (m/w/d)

What To Expect

Tesla is accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy. Revolutionary strategies and products were developed within a few years and successfully launched on a large scale. This is only possible through extraordinary speed, innovation and efficiency. Gigafactory Berlin forms the perfect basis for rolling out Tesla’s incredible success story in Europe. The most important pillar for this is our employees. Their passion, motivation and engagement ensure that we achieve our goals. We are looking for you to continue and expand this success story together.

The Role

We seek a highly motivated engineer for a leadership position in our Paint Manufacturing Engineering group. This group is responsible for developing and implementing the processes, equipment and tooling used to paint and seal our vehicles. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to building a world‑class manufacturing facility. Tesla is a demanding and fast‑paced environment where you will work on a critical subsystem of an incredibly exciting product. This position reports to the Gigafactory Berlin, Paint Senior Manager.

The Manufacturing Engineering team employs a combination of team‑based and matrix‑based organizational structures. Leadership is responsible for either product lines or specific functions within the team. The ideal Manager 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.

What You’ll Do

• Build a new team of engineers and lead this cohesive team within Vehicle Manufacturing Engineering.
• Lead the development of processes and requirements to implement new products and/or in‑house manufacturing capacity and then lead the team to execute these projects.
• Provide design‑for‑manufacturing feedback to our vehicle design engineers in order to realize superior design efficiency.
• Deliver the handover to day‑to‑day production of capable and stable manufacturing processes, equipment and tooling.

What You’ll Bring

• BS/MS Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ 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 manufacturing processes and/or equipment.
• Must be fluent in English & German.
• Designing and costing mechanical, process and electrical equipment for a Paint shop.
• Designing and costing facilities and utilities infrastructure for a Paint shop.
• 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).
• Designing and optimizing the software and hardware stack used in a Paint shop.
• Experience in the following:
• Detailed knowledge of high‑volume, high‑quality assembly processes.
• Leading major modifications of existing production equipment.
• Introducing new products and new processes into a production environment.
• Root‑causing quality defects & developing solutions to resolve.
• Designing for manufacturability.
• Interfacing with manufacturing execution system software (MES).
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment with multiple priorities.
• Previous experience in a role leading multiple groups of professionals.
• Exemplary verbal and written communication skills.
• Solidly organized, with meticulous attention to detail.
• Experience in 3D parametric CAD (e.g. SolidWorks, Catia) and 2D layout software (e.g. AutoCAD).
• Mastery of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio.