Manufacturing Engineer Electrode Mixing, Battery Cell (m/w/d) - Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg

Manufacturing Engineer Electrode Mixing, Battery Cell (m/w/d) - Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg

Job Category: Manufacturing

Location: Berlin-Brandenburg

Req. ID: 239597

Job Type: Full-time

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. The most important pillar for this are our employees. Their passion, motivation, and engagement ensure that we achieve our goals. We are looking for you to join our amazing team and build Tesla's future together.

Tesla’s cell manufacturing engineering group is looking for a highly motivated equipment development engineer to accelerate our next generation battery cell manufacturing program. This role will be involved in the design, development, commissioning, and ramping of high-throughput equipment, while working in a cross-functional team to test, validate, and roll-out process and product design changes.

The battery cell is a critical component in Tesla vehicles and storage systems. This role will have the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to our products. The work environment is demanding, fast-paced, and incredibly exciting. The ideal candidate should be ready to push their limits, as they join a highly motivated and capable team to make unbelievable things into reality.

What You’ll Do

• Drive design, commissioning, and ramp of complex powder handling and dry mixing manufacturing equipment
• Coordinate new equipment packages requirements, approve new design drawings, and track supplier work implementation/quality on site
• Become owner/subject matter expert to drive equipment-related process improvement including detailed troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Ensure proper as-built documentation and build training material/maintenance routines related documentation for equipment
• Lead safety improvements to production equipment which meets or exceeds regulations or best practices
• Identify equipment critical spare parts and ensure sufficient coverage to prevent extended downtime situations
• Participate in supplier/internal equipment buyoffs
• Provide hands-on support to maintenance team to troubleshoot and resolve extended downtime situations

What You’ll Bring

• Either a BS with 6+ years’ relevant experience or an MS with 3+ years relevant experience in cell manufacturing processes, semi-conductors, or equivalent
• Strong engineering foundations with good electrical knowledge. Aptitude to learn
• Structured thinking and problem-solving abilities. Proven through root cause analysis track record
• Demonstrated experience ramping equipment into manufacturing – Powder handling systems, Electrical design, automation hardware troubleshooting, input/output checks (IOs)
• P&IDs/electrical drawing review and safety risk assessment participation capability required, FMEA experience could be a plus
• Powder handling system, Electrical safety or ATEX knowledge is a plus
• Experience in high volume manufacturing is highly desired

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