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Reporting to the Equipment Maintenance Team, the Equipment Maintenance Engineer, is primarily responsible for the design of maintenance procedures, tooling retrofits, performance improvements, and deployment of new processes/equipment based off countermeasure planning from production-limiting events. The selected candidate assumes full ownership of specific equipment technologies and maintaining them for use with the highest standards of safety, quality, and output that is required for large volume world class manufacturing, while encouraging Total Productive Maintenance management systems and accountability. The Sr. Equipment Maintenance Engineer works closely with Tesla’s internal Sustaining Engineering, Product Design, Operations, Safety, Facilities, Quality, NPI, and Process Engineering teams and coordinates cross-functional activities for day to day issue problem solving and corrective action execution.

• Oversee, initiate, and provide maintenance strategy improvement activities in line with production-limiting events, planned outages, and sustaining corrective actions
• Oversee the development of a Total Predictive Maintenance (TPM) program for current, and future commissioning equipment lines; and the establishment of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in line with management needs
• Manage the corrective action and countermeasure planning directives for repetitive and rare production equipment limiters, and engage the correct cross-functional teams for corrective action planning and implementation
• Optimize product flow and line efficiency by designing or improving tools, jigs, stations, work methods and ergonomics using the 5S methodology regarding the maintaining and sustaining of industrial production equipment
• Work closely with Manufacturing Equipment Engineering team, and Maintenance teams to initiate, and plan for critical, routine, and preventative maintenance plans for existing and new equipment line commissioning
• Drive process control and process development, specifically in the areas of equipment capability metrics (MTTR, MTOJ, etc.)
• Utilize knowledge of electrical and mechanical assemblies to predict equipment failure modes and proactively set and establish preventative maintenance schedules
• Work independently, with vendors, and with maintenance teams to understand root cause of failures, propose design or component changes, and implement and validate equipment modifications from a sustaining operations standpoint
• Generate and maintain equipment maintenance specifications to assist maintenance technicians and leadership with documented recovery and sustaining plans in tandem with vendor/supplier documentation
• Actively use tool data sources (e.g. MES reports) to quantitatively evaluate and track tool performance and create programs to improve relevant metrics under the guidance of Maintenance Manager(s)