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Tesla Sr. Equipment Safety Engineer Megafactory United States, California, Lathrop 28245298
06.04.2025
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What You’ll Do What You’ll Bring
- Lead Equipment Safety Program management for Megafactory and assigned Lathrop sites, with the goal of safeguarding people and the environment from serious impacts from equipment failures while always advancing Tesla’s mission
- Perform technical analyses to evaluate and validate designs against regulatory and internal standards, and provide feasible and creative recommendations supported by objective findings
- Utilize ANSI, ISO, RIA, NFPA, IBC and OSHA equipment, electrical and facility design standards, in addition to Tesla’s Design Targets, to drive consistent and high-quality safety and engineering outcomes – in response to events/incidents as well as gap analyses or audits
- Oversee change management on safety systems for new and existing equipment, and ensure effective verification (buy-off) and documentation retention
- Partner with internal Process Safety, Ergonomics, Environmental and other engineering subject matter experts to review internal design/build targets. Facilitate continuous improvements according to current trends/needs, and deploy changes with local teams.
- Support and lead event learning/incident investigations to identify contributing factors and collaborate on prevention and corrective measures as appropriate
- Attend, coordinate, and conduct equipment safety and related training—strengthen the Engineering, Maintenance, Production and the EHS team competency with automation safety design principles, standards and practices
- Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial or Safety Engineering, Ergonomics, Occupational Health, and Safety, or equivalent experience
- 5 years automation safety experience, including mechanical/electrical/control design
- Demonstrated knowledge of production processes and systems (i.e. operational workflows, industrial safety processes, using software applications for documents and communication, etc)
- Advanced understanding of PLC programming/troubleshooting (Allen Bradley/Siemens/Beckhoff)
- Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure while managing competing demands and tight deadlines; Excellent interpersonal skills and willingness to learn from and teach others
- Well organized with meticulous attention to detail; Excellent written and verbal communicator with technical and non-technical audiences; Mastery of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Occasional travel to support supplier factory acceptance testing and stakeholder collaboration
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