What to Expect As an Associate Manager of Energy Warehouse Operations, you will be playing a critical role in ensuring that order fulfillment, inventory health and people development are supporting the production goals of Tesla Energy Operation Centres. You will be asked to work cross-functionally, interfacing with process engineering, material planning, service, installation, OIM and commercial teams to ensure organizational and departmental goals are being satisfied.
What You’ll Do - Ensure timely and accurate order fulfillment is being a satisfied daily at the lowest total possible cost and insisting on the highest quality standards.
- Drive a strong positive work and team culture through effective communication by showcasing the essential building blocks of mutual trust and respect with employees & peers.
- Associate Managers are expected to own regional responsibilities as needed with the ability to communicate and bridge any outlying opportunities within region.
- Establish and maintain appropriate mechanisms to maintain inventory accuracy in OC’s.
- Associate Managers not only provide regularly scheduled coaching and mentorship to direct reports; however, are expected to mentor M1 Supervisors on (Leadership, KPI’s, Cost/Analysis, etc.)
- Associate Managers are expected to coordinate, drive, and self-sufficiently execute project management for future state organizational scope goals through the opportunity levers of inventory control; warehouse operations; logistics integration; material planning or process engineering for Tesla’s Energy warehousing & logistics organization.
- Monitor, own and drive down warehousing operation cost inputs using the skills of cost/profit analysis.
- Monitor, track, and work cross functionally on multiple KPI’s to improve processes, support inventory control issues, address production bottlenecks and increase productivity.
- Tesla Leaders proactively communicate safety related incidents; however, Associate Managers own actions taken to prevent future state incidents by sharing and communicating preventative measures in collaboration with EHS to Regional and Sr Leadership.
- Appropriately proposes and tracks budgets for multiple cost variables including (Labor, PO’s, Facility Maintenance, Logistics, etc.)
- Ability to foster positive working relationships with internal/external customers and serves as a second POC for critical customer escalations.
- Ability to identify, develop, and place talented individuals into key areas for overall business growth.
What You’ll Bring - Ideal candidate will have 5 + years of experience working in a high-volume operations or warehousing environment.
- Proven ability of driving change through continuous improvement in efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness of fulfillment at a warehousing or operations environment.
- Proven success in managing multiple operations with the responsibility for some or all aspects of warehouse functions.
- Demonstrates the ability to own multi-site facility budgeting and track spend targets.
- Strong communication and management skills combined with business analytics, process and system development and change management.
- Expectations to travel within sub region at least (30% of the time).
- Willingness and ability to travel within and outside region for large scope project management.
- Passionately learns and develop new skills to drive self-improvement.