Supplier Quality Engineer, Exterior Lighting

What to Expect

Tesla's Supplier Quality team are responsible for critical component development, quality management, continuous improvement, and qualification activities at suppliers and for ensuring production line is protected from disruption due to incoming supplier quality issues.The job requires effective communication at all levels both with internal and external teams, conducting failure analysis, leading statistical process control activities for critical components, limited travel to in-region suppliers, and on-the-spot critical decision making.The goal : developing suppliers by teaching best practices for manufacturing, quality, and engineering, delivering on time quantities of high-quality component parts into Tesla's production processes to enable extremely rapid development cycles and product launches, driving lean manufacturing principals to reduce waste and improve quality.

What You'll Do

The team consists of Supplier Quality Engineers (SQE) and Supplier Quality Assurance (SQA) technicians who ensure production line is protected from disruption due to supplier quality issues, while driving actions with suppliers. This cross-functional role requires team members to work closely with Factory teams towards issue identification and containment, and with Supply Chain teams towards issue resolution and corrective actions

• Conducts investigations to identify and / or confirm potential and escalated supplier quality issues; develops and implements immediate countermeasures to quickly resolve supplier quality spills and prevent production downtime; creates sustainable countermeasure requirements (including scope of work, standardized work instructions, PPE, tools, equipment, and cycle time) to maintain production uptime and trains Quality Inspection team and their 3rd parties to execute them
• Issues and drives supplier corrective action requests (SCAR) to initiate and track to closure supplier's containment actions, root cause analysis, and corrective and preventative action identification and implementation; conducts part quality audits and trials at the component, subsystem and / or system level to confirm / verify supplier's implemented containment actions and corrective & preventative actions are effective; reviews supplier's root cause analysis and corrective and preventative actions for problem resolution adequacy and efficacy and provides feedback to them and their assigned Supplier Industrialization Engineer for correction, as required
• Supports part and packaging trials driven by new product launches, Tesla design changes, and / or Supplier (process) changes at the component, subsystem and / or system levels within the Factory to verify, validate and provide feedback on quality impacts
• Facilitates and leads meetings with stakeholders to address supply chain and / or supplier quality (emerging) issues and / or changes
• Seeks opportunities to improve processes and part quality whilst reduce part costs; collects and shares lessons learned for issue prevention and continuous improvement
• Support containment, SCAR, continuous improvement and / or personal professional development activities at supplier locations, other Gigafactories and / or Tesla warehouses / operating sites, as required

What You'll Bring

Compensation and Benefits Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire :

2 medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction

Expected Compensation $72,000 - $162,000 / annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits

Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.