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Tesla Senior/Staff Technical Program Manager - Cell New Product Introduction NPI m/w/d Germany, Brandenburg 212683298
23.04.2025
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What You’ll Do What You’ll Bring
- Develop a deep understanding of our product design and manufacturing processes to technically inform impact of changes
- Establish/maintain validation standards, develop testing protocols, lead trials/ builds/ equipment/ production readiness.
- Lead data reviews of documented test results to inform conclusions to draw back to respective programs and maintain records
- Lead program trials/builds across different levels of maturity (A/B/C-Phase Builds, Development builds or DOE’s, etc); coordinate cross-functional effort within our existing manufacturing systems
- Support design and engineering teams in early development trials/builds and scaling of product/process changes from pilot to mass production manufacturing scale
- Support design and process engineers by doing data analysis and understanding how they need to align on managing change
- Analyze and determine the optimal solutions for change coordination with manufacturing, other Tesla plants, and suppliers (including EBOM, MBOM, Change Control, etc.)
- Work with stakeholders to take a vague problem statement, refine the scope of the analysis, and use the results to drive informed decisions
- Bachelor’s degree in quantitative discipline (Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, etc.) or equivalent
- 3+ years of experience as a Technical Project/Program Manager in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
- Experience with cross-functional management & being a technical leader
- Experience in New Product Introduction or product/process launches (& associated change management systems & validation methodologies); Experience in early to mature material/product phases
- Ability to problem solve and adjust priorities in a fast-moving and constantly evolving high growth environment, Comfortable in an environment with unstructured, incomplete, and ambiguous data
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with pilot and/or mass production manufacturing (Battery cell manufacturing experience preferred)
- Strong engineering skills and proven track record of exceptional ability (i.e., you personally solved difficult problems that moved the needle on meaningful projects)
- Production Operations Knowledge - has a firm understanding of how complex production lines operate including key items such as industrial workings between facilities/departments, line balance, OEE, error proofing, etc.
- Understanding of how the manufacturing validation process runs in relation to complex new products that stretch across various engineering teams and manufacturing centers/factories (methodology, validation plans, associated KPIs)
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