Tesla · 16 hours ago
Quality Engineer, Subassemblies
Lathrop, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
$65K/yr - $146K/yr
2+ years expTesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy, and they are seeking an experienced Quality Engineer to oversee the manufacturing of large stationary battery products. The role involves ensuring that products and manufacturing processes meet high standards of safety, reliability, and quality while driving continuous improvement and collaborating with multiple engineering and manufacturing teams.
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Responsibilities
Accountable for the quality of incoming components and quality controls and assurance in production process and driving continues improvement
Responsible for solving complex technical challenges impacting internal and external customers by leading problem-solving process utilizing methodologies such as 8D, Lean Six Sigma and Shainin
Lead cross-functional teams to safeguard and improve product and components quality including risk assessment, containment actions, conducting in depth root cause analysis, experiments and executing corrective and preventative actions including lessons learned for future products
Leading cross-functional teams to achieve and improve internal & external customer satisfaction, field reliability, nonconformities, scrap and improving first pass yield and additional relevant objectives and key results
Leading Advance Product Quality Planning for new programs including development of quality critical product, components and process requirement and characteristics including supplier qualification
Driving Design & Process Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) to identify risks and implement appropriate actions to mitigate these risks together with cross-functional teams including proactive and continue improvement of current controls
Identification and deployment of critical product/subassemblies/components and manufacturing requirements to ensure customer and production needs including supplier development
Develop, validate, implement and consistently improving effective quality controls across production lines in coordination with Design, Production, Operations, Controls and Maintenance teams
Participate in program, projects, design change management reviews to ensure product subsystem quality and reliability requirements are met including analysis, trials and validation
Assist development with dimensional analysis, statistical tolerancing and other methods to investigate the effects of part and process variability on system performance and manufacturability including process capability analyses to investigate and improve the ability of suppliers and production processes to meet defined specifications and quality standards
Qualification
Required
Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Materials or Industrial Engineering, or equivalant experience
Minimum 2 year of experience in manufacturing environment and Quality Engineering function
Specific training, fundamental understanding and demonstrated success in applying Automotive Core Tools including 8D, FMEA, Control Plan, SPC, Capacities Study, MSA, APQP, PPAP, DOE, and Hypothesis Testing
Bring broad technical expertise and background to work with cross-functional teams, including engineering, manufacturing, service engineering, and suppliers
Outstanding oral and written communication skills with ability to build trusted relationship across multiple teams and levels of organization
Preferred
Minimum 1 year of experience with electro-mechanical assemblies, battery modules manufacturing preferred
Quality Engineering expertise including ASQ certification, Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Six Sigma Green/Black Belt, Certified Quality Auditor/Certified Manager of Quality preferred
Exceptional problem-solving skills and expertise utilizing problem solving methodologies as 8D, Lean Six Sigma and Shainin methodology, relevant certification as plus
Strong background and demonstrated success analyzing and interpreting large set of data including data mining, databases and scripting experience eg. MySQL, Python. Minitab, JMP or other statistical software expertise are preferred
Understanding and familiarity with Quality Management standards as ISO 9001 and IATF 16949
Benefits
Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
Employee Assistance Program
Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
Tesla Babies program
Commuter benefits
Employee discounts and perks program
Company
Tesla
Tesla is an electric vehicle and clean energy company that provides electric cars, solar, and renewable energy solutions.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$20.12BKey Investors
Societe GeneraleEuropean UnionPennDOT
2024-10-05Post Ipo Debt· $783M
2023-09-13Grant· $159.6M
2023-08-15Grant· $0.23M
Leadership Team
Vaibhav Taneja
Chief Financial Officer
Tom Zhu
SVP of Automotive
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