Quality Engineer, LFP Cell Manufacturing

Description:
Tesla
Energy in Nevada is looking for an experienced Quality Engineer for Energy
Storage business. In this role you will be responsible for battery cell
manufacturing to build a world class quality process to enable Tesla to
deliver safe and reliable stationary energy storage solutions to drive the
mission to accelerate the world’s transition towards sustainable energy.
This is a dynamic position where you work across several engineering
groups, to proactively develop products and processes to be built right
the first time, and continuously improve them to meet customer
expectations and profitability goals.

Responsibilities:
Accountable
for the quality of incoming components, quality controls and assurance in
production process, root cause analysis and resolution of problems
impacting internal and external customers, continuous improvement and
risk mitigation
Drive
cross functional teams to achieve targets for field reliability, scrap
and first pass yield
Development
of manufacturing requirements, quality standards and product quality
plans to assure products will meet expectations of our target customers
Deployment
of manufacturing level requirements to subsystems, assemblies &
components to assure clear focus on design and customer needs
Leading
development of FMEAs (Design & Process) for development teams to
identify and address critical risks
Participate
in design reviews to assure product subsystem quality, manufacturability,
reliability, etc.
Assist
development with dimensional analysis, statistical tolerancing and other
methods to investigate the effects of part and process variability on
system performance
Support
process capability analyses to investigate the ability of suppliers and
production processes to meet defined specifications and quality standards
Design
effective experiments through DOE or other methods to support design and
process teams in investigation of various alternatives to resolve quality
issues
Manage
and facilitate the root cause & corrective actions system through
tracking and validation of issues and support in root cause analysis
through facilitating brainstorming, use of lean
methodologies, hypothesis testing, design of experiments, DMAIC, 8D,
etc.

Requirements:
Degree
in Electrical, Chemical, Materials Engineering, or equivalent experience

Six
Sigma or ASQ certification is preferred

Minimum
2 years of experience in Quality Engineering

Minimum
1 year of experience with Electro-Mechanical Assemblies, Chemical
Processes or Battery Cell Manufacturing preferred

Specific
training and demonstrated success in applying design for quality,
problem-solving methodologies, FMEA, process capability analysis,
hypothesis testing, DoE and SPC

Strong
background and demonstrated success applying statistical methods

Minitab,
JMP orother statistical software capabilities are preferred

Data
mining, databases and scripting experience (e.g. MySQL, Python)

Excellent
oral and written communication skills