Associate Quality Engineering Manager, Solar

The Associate Quality Engineering Manager, Solar is a founding leader in our new, greenfield Solar Manufacturing group. This is a high-impact, hands-on role for an experienced manufacturing quality professional who thrives on building organizations and systems from the ground up. Build and scale a world-class quality organization from the ground up, establishing QMS, driving yield improvement, ensuring regulatory compliance, and developing a data-driven quality culture. Own product quality from R&D through mass production, partnering with engineering, supply chain, and operations to deliver industry-leading cell efficiency, reliability, and cost.

• Lead Quality Engineering and Quality Operations team to support production lines for site and build a network across factories to leverage good practices and continuous improvement
• Establish, maintain, and meet clear quality metrics and objectives.
• Drive professional problem solving to root cause and standardize quality improvement projects across lines to minimize Quality Escapes and Early-life Failures.
• Master and nurture a data-driven team with advanced statistical, analysis and visualization skills
• Support a 24x7 global business with the needed sense of urgency to protect Tesla customers and business, while enabling work-life balance, commitment, and fun at work
• Develop and motivate a high performing team of exceptional engineers, engineering technicians, Quality supervisors and Quality technicians
• Create and maintain PFMEAs to determine potential risks in the manufacturing process and drive resolution of high-risk issues into process controls
• Establish and maintain Control Plans to ensure critical features are controlled and monitored through the assembly/production processes
• Develop and implement Quality Key Points for inspection that meet product specifications used by in-process inspections and quality audits
• Create schedules for regular audits and inspections to be performed by Quality Technicians across all product lines
• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 6+ years as a Quality Engineer with prior experience leading a team of engineers
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and implement changes
• Experience developing PFMEAs for production processes and continuous improvement.
• Experience in IS 9001, IATF 16949 QMS standards and process tools of APQP and PPAP
• Specific training and demonstrated success in applying quality problem solving methods, such as Six Sigma, fishbone diagrams, 5 Whys and/or 8D, and in implementing successful countermeasures
• Strong quantitative and data analysis skills, including process capability analysis, hypothesis testing, DoE, SPC, and similar utilizing tools like SQL, R, Minitab, JMP (or similar)

Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• 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