What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Manager, Production Control, Semi position at Tesla Motors, Inc.?
What to Expect
What You'll Do
What You'll Bring
Compensation and Benefits
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.
As an Associate Materials Manager for Production Control, you will be playing a critical role in ensuring the materials team is able to support the production goals of the Semi Factory. You will be asked to work cross-functionally, interfacing with engineering, production, and planning to ensure production goals are being met.
What You'll Do
- Tesla people leaders are responsible for a variety of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) assurance functions, including ensuring their teams' safety training is current, documenting EHS incidents, proactively correcting workplace hazards in the areas, and empowering others to continuously improve operations
- Lead and manage people, projects and resources to optimize production for on-time delivery. Coordinate material input to ensure on time delivery and output schedules, lead in the attainment of increased production efficiency and cycle time reduction and manage the flow of material through the supply base to support on-time delivery performance
- Ensure timely and accurate material movements through all inventory areas (receiving, stockroom, floor, and shipping) at the lowest total possible cost while maintaining high inventory accuracy
- Provide business analysis and process/system development to optimize transactions and provide required information to the operation in a timely manner to optimize materials management performance, and drive the development and implementation of internal systems and software
- Support all planning and production scheduling; inventory control; warehouse operations; logistics integration; production planners and material planners (buyers) for Tesla's manufacturing plant to ensure minimization of excess/obsolete inventory and increase annual turns and establish and maintain appropriate inventory levels for all products
- Support interaction with internal customers and suppliers to obtain feedback, and ensure collaboration between Tesla, other operations, suppliers, and customers result in the development and deployment of supply chain solutions that improve quality, performance and service levels. Provide feedback on suppliers' performance on overall cost, delivery, and quality
- Monitor and drive down overall cost of materials including freight expenses, administration expenses, and cost of materials management
What You'll Bring
- Ideal candidate will have 5-7 years of experience working in a manufacturing environment
- Expertise in material distribution through the manufacturing process by orchestrating the efficiency of moving material from the warehouse through manufacturing operations in an organized fashion
- Proven examples of continuous improvement in efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness of the materials function within high growth, fast paced, manufacturing environment
- Proven success in managing department(s) responsible for some or all aspects of materials control functions
- Demonstrated financial understanding of materials and supply chain performance
- Strong communication and management skills combined with business analytics, process and system development and change management
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:
- Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
- Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
- Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
- Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
- Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
- Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
- Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
- Tesla Babies program
- Commuter benefits
- Employee discounts and perks program
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.