What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Design Project Manager, Infrastructure Programs position at Tesla Motors, Inc.?
Designing & building infrastructure, at record speed, is key to enabling us to scale worldwide. We are looking for a highly motivated design manager to join our factory infrastructure engineering team. In this role, you will be asked to own and drive the full design and engineering efforts for construction and infrastructure development from concept to production. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in engineering, construction, manufacturing and project management.
The role requires a highly organized mindset, a passion for driving multi-disciplinary projects, and an unparalleled ability to pull people together to make things happen. Our capital improvement programs are always aggressive. This requires you to be extremely detail oriented, question requirements, identify real barriers and drive the cross-functional teams to execute quickly at high quality. You will drive collaboration between Engineering disciplines, Construction, Manufacturing and Production to ensure our team's goals are aligned with company priorities. You will work to understand the opportunities and challenges of each project, translate scattered information into a concise and complete message, document and communicate to every team member. You will aim to make our team efficient and effective while reducing ambiguity from programs. We are a demanding and fast-paced environment, so being self-motivated and disciplined is critical. Managing the resources and schedules of projects at our organization requires an individual who is passionate about our mission and is focused on collaborative solutions.
What You'll Do
- Fundamentally understand stakeholders' requirements and translate them into clear project objectives. Distill, document and manage scope effectively to support highly dynamic environment
- Manage infrastructure projects through conceptualization, feasibility, funding, design (30%/60%/90%/IFC), change management, and engineering services during construction
- Manage permitting and construction documents including transmittals and RFI's while co-managing infeed of customer requests from all site teams
- Drive project funding request process for major infrastructure improvements and coordinate key project schedule requirements with our Procurement and Construction partners for the overall schedule success of the project
- Identify resource requirements and highlight gaps and constraints across various stages for all projects. Influence various teams outside of direct reporting structure
- Build and maintain strong relationships with the various cross-functional teams to ensure overall program alignment. Define strategies for project delivery methods including design bid build, integrated project development, and fast track projects
- Understand lean construction principles and fully integrated design using Building Information Modeling (BIM). Implement innovative engineering and design methodologies to support very aggressive program and construction schedules
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's Degree in Process, or Mechanical,Engineering or equivalent experience
- At least 5 years experience with managing multi-disciplinary scopes within A/E or Design Engineering firms
- Excellent communication and documentation skills with ability to understand complex problems and distill the message into a clear plan to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience designing manufacturing facilities and site infrastructure (e.g. building and utilities) and experience working with codes and jurisdictions and be able to build strong relationships with external partners
- Full understanding of all engineering disciplines and be able to demonstrate skills to manage engineering resources
- Advanced project management skills,demonstrated application of project and program management fundamentals to complex engineering problems
- Positive, enthusiastic, fast learner, can-do mindset and passionate about manufacturing infrastructure. Thrives under pressure and in ambiguous environments. Ability to effectively execute many projects and tasks in parallel
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.