What are the responsibilities and job description for the Industrial Engineer, Operations Research position at Tesla?
Industrial Engineers at Tesla are responsible for optimizing manufacturing systems by means of value stream mapping, data driven analysis and cross-functional collaboration. Beyond this, Industrial Engineers are responsible for measuring, improving and managing resource allocations to meet business objectives efficiently as possible and lead company efforts to move towards lean production systems. Gigafactory Texas has an opportunity for a highly motivated Industrial Engineer. The ideal candidate will have technical competency in work measurement, linear programming, discrete event simulation, data science and other operation research methods. Furthermore, this position will interact across all Gigafactory Texas areas, the successful candidate will be expert in discrete event simulation, optimization, data engineering, labor & space planning, material flow, lean production philosophy, problem solving methodologies and project management.
Responsibilities
- Develop discrete event simulation models of direct and indirect manufacturing process and procedures such as production lines, pedestrian & traffic flows, warehouse management, buffers definition and material flow resources
- Incorporate statistical variation, uncertainty and impacts of unplanned events to overall production output
- Work with manufacturing engineering and production teams to identify production constraints and evaluate potential solutions to lift them. Lead, deploy and execute optimal solution implementation
- Optimize process design, layout and resources allocation by analyzing throughput capabilities, bottlenecks, buffer sizing and material routing
- Support new and sustaining production line requirements, including layout management, space allocation and material flow optimization
- Develop and improve visualization framework to capture high level factory operation and detailed subsystem operation to generate concise, clear, and easily way to track and communicate analysis and KPIs status for projects and stakeholders
- Provide high-quality & decision-making framework using quantifiable tradeoffs, value-stream analysis and resources sensitivity through high fidelity mathematical modeling and simulation
Requirements
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
