Engineering Technician, Manufacturing Test Engineering

What to Expect

Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy. Revolutionary strategies and products were developed within a few years and successfully launched on a large scale. This is only possible through extraordinary speed, innovation and efficiency. Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg forms the perfect basis for rolling out Tesla's incredible success story in Europe. The most important pillar for this are our employees. Their passion, motivation and engagement ensure that we achieve our goals. We are looking for you to continue and expand this success story together.
Tesla is looking for a highly driven technician to support the fabrication and assembly of manufacturing test equipment. As part of the manufacturing test team, you will be building electrical cabinets and mechanical and automation systems that validate functionality of a variety of Tesla products on production lines (Supercharging, Battery Packs, Drive Systems, Power Electronic Products...). The role involves working closely with the engineers designing the test equipment to bring it from schematics to fully ramped machine on a production line.

What You'll Do

• Building and wiring electrical cabinets and harnesses following design schematics
• Fabrication of mechanical and automation systems for the test equipment
• Attending design review with electrical and mechanical engineers to provide design recommendations for best practices on machine fabrication
• Creating best practices documentation for high quality machine builds and safe work standards
• Validate, integrate, deploy, and troubleshoot test systems on the production line.
• Workshop management to ensure availability of tools, inventory, and an effective workspace

What You'll Bring

• Completed vocational education as Electrical Technician, Mechatronics Technician or equivalent
• 2 years + of experience working on building electrical cabinets and mechanical automation systems
• Good fundamental understanding of electrical systems and how to troubleshoot them
• Strong experience with reading and interpreting electrical schematics and circuits, wiring diagrams and harness drawings
• Ability to operate and maintain a wide variety of hand and power tools, and lab equipment.
• Experience using wiring tools such as crimpers, wire splicing, soldering, pin extraction tools
• Experience with measurement instrumentation & power distribution hardware (oscilloscope, multimeters, power supplies, transformers...)
• Ability to communicate in English in a work environment is a must
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, the ability to remain engaged, proactive, and positive in challenging circumstances, as well as to take full responsibility for assigned tasks and their success.

Preferred:

• Experiencing designing electrical schematics on EPLAN
• Machining capabilities such as milling, lathing, 3D printing, laser cutting

Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.