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Tesla Senior Design Manager m/w/d - Gigafactory Berlin - Brandenburg Germany, Brandenburg 234200873
10.04.2025
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What You’ll Do What You’ll Bring
- Act as the design lead overseeing all phases of the project, from concept development to final handover to the facilities team upon project completion.
- Assume responsibility for the design deliveries (Design for individual design stages 30%, 60%, 90%, 100%, specifications, BOQ, calculations as needed, descriptions, SOO, etc.) across all engineering disciplines (CSA, MEPC, Fire Protection), managing design quality and mitigating errors to ensure successful project delivery.
- Facilitate effective communication with permitting, procurement, project control and construction teams to drive project success.
- Establish design direction and prioritize tasks for each design discipline, ensuring efficient project execution within aggressive schedules including clear goals for design sprints to ensure shortest schedule for design development
- Conduct design reviews to verify that all stakeholder (MFG, EHS, Permit, FM, etc.) requirements are met and to prevent design gaps between disciplines.
- Challenge design changes to assess their validity and reasonableness, leading efforts to achieve maximum impact with minimal cost.
- Coordinate with the project control team to develop a design schedule and budget that aligns with procurement and construction timelines.
- Follow up with the procurement team from RFP package transmittal to contract completion
- Support design-related tasks during construction, including RFIs, FCRs, and as-built documentation.
- Collaborate with the document control team to approve design documents within the company’s platform and officially transmit them to procurement and construction teams.
- Improve existing processes using IT tools through out-of-the-box thinking to enhance efficiency and rationality.
- Regularly update the lessons learned database to prevent design errors and improve future project outcomes proactively.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in architectural, mechanical Engineering
- Minimum of 10+ years in design/project management
- Experience managing multi-disciplinary projects within engineering firms, managing building, infrastructure and/or MEP projects, ideally experience in project management within the pharmaceutical, semiconductor, or battery sectors, working with authorities and be able to build strong relationship with local jurisdictions
- Fully understanding all engineering disciplines and be able to demonstrate skills to manage engineering
- Proven record in delivery of design packages (LP1-7) from concept to execution design
- Advanced project management skills, demonstrated application of project and program management fundamentals to complex engineering problems
- Ability to effectively execute many projects and tasks in parallel
- Communicate with technical and non-technical team members effectively
- Construction Project Management experience is a plus
- Following software experience is a plus: Revit, SharePoint, BIM360, Navisworks
- Fluent in English, German is a plus
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