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What to Expect
Tesla is currently seeking a motivated and accomplished Industrial Engineer to
lead the design and analysis for people flow and transportation systems. This
role requires strong industrial engineering fundamentals and the ability to
apply first principles thinking to design people flow infrastructure. This
role must have the ability to quantify factory, production, and administrative
space configurations at a high level, working with ambiguous inputs.
Ultimately this role works to lead the vision for people flow infrastructure
for each new site. This position may be based in Reno/Sparks, NV or Austin,
TX.
The team is responsible for developing a factory design which supports
seamless integration between production, packaging, material flow, supply
chain, construction, and facilities teams. Innovation is expected. Through a
detailed understanding of the high-level factory objectives and extensive
collaboration with the internal and external teams designing individual
factory components, this team ensures that the overall factory design achieves
all of Tesla's objectives.
The ideal candidate will excel in a demanding and fast-paced environment where
they will work as part of a strong, agile, and highly motivated team to
accomplish some of the most ambitious projects being attempted in any industry
today. The candidate will be expected to collaborate primarily with
architectural and civil teams while developing conceptual designs. However,
the candidate will be focused on the entire factory as a system, ensuring
production, material flow, and other functions will be a success. The
candidate must have intuition on what tools to use at each stage of the
project when tasked with an analysis.
What You'll Do
Display a positive attitude and practice strong work ethics that reflects
the mission, philosophy and goals of Tesla.
Consolidate and categorize headcount data for new programs and factory
functions
Conduct traffic analyses for the site over time
Develop solutions for road network expansion and additions with civil
engineering groups
Create business cases for mass-transit systems, based on the nature of the
site
Propose parking structure designs and locations with civil engineering
groups
Propose shift schedules and patterns for site arrival and departure
Design pathways and processes for production teams to travel to
workstations
Evaluate alternate solutions for moving associates and administrative
staff through internal factory space (think escalators, elevators, moving
walkways, shuttles, etc.)
Develop layout and location for factory amenities with architectural
groups
Collaborate with architectural groups on administrative space design and
location
Develop simulation models for flow lanes inside and outside of the
building
Generate heatmaps to project areas of concern for vehicle, foot, and
production traffic
Collaborate with material flow and factory layout resources to ensure
people infrastructure is symbiotic with primary production objectives
What You'll Bring
2+ years of industrial or manufacturing engineering experience with
emphasis on people flow and transportation (internship experience may be
considered)
BS or MS Industrial Engineering, Engineering Management, or other relevant
education/experience
Extensive project management experience to make data-driven decisions and
summarize results for executives.
Understanding of people movement solutions (Passenger vehicles. trucks,
shuttles, mass-transit, escalators, elevators, moving walkways)
Demonstrated leadership and ability to drive projects with diverse teams
in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
Experience quantitatively solving ambiguous infrastructure design problems
at a systems level.
Exemplary verbal and written communication skills.
Experience with layouts in AutoCAD, Revit, or similar modeling tool
Preferred Experience:
Experience with diverse and high throughput material handling and
transportation challenges
Experience with material handling systems and production lines
Extensive experience with 3D discrete event simulation software (FlexSim
preferred)
Experience with C based coding languages
Experience with Catia, Solidworks, Revit
Experience working in simulation consulting or dedicated simulation
internal organizations
