Infrastructure Program Manager, Optimus Factory

About the role

Infrastructure Program Manager, Optimus Factory | Tesla (Construction & Facilities)

Location: AUSTIN, Texas | Req ID: 252320 | Job Type: Full-time

What to Expect

Designing and building world-class Gigafactories, at record speed, is key to enable Tesla to scale worldwide. In this role, you will be asked to own Giga Texas Datacenter scoping, technical planning, integration of layouts and drive the datacenter and infrastructure design and construction from concept definition, design to execution and production for both local and remote facilities. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in datacenter deployment, customer management, technical program management, factory engineering, manufacturing, construction, contract management, and site/real estate development.

What You'll Do

• Owns plan of record, scope definition, approval, strategy, and execution for onsite/offsite infrastructure programs, by integrating, negotiating, and aligning with key stakeholders, real estate, factory engineering, construction, procurement, finance, and project customers
• Owns the Optimus factory scoping efforts by pulling together the cross functional teams, understands their needs, drives technical planning, defines options/tradeoffs/cost/schedule/impacts, and secures alignment between the working and leadership teams
• Owns program communications to major stakeholders; Schedule, budget, costs, forecasts, risks, operational readiness, and launch readiness and drives program funding efforts to meet timelines, with quantified options assessment
• Deliverables needed for procurement, costing, permitting, and construction, meet program requirements. Serve as main infrastructure program point of contact for program lifecycle
• Proactively identifies and drives continuous improvement of Tesla processes to improve program performances
• Leads Optimus factory infrastructure team w/o any direct reports, negotiating and influence leadership to prioritize work efforts. Initiates technical studies such as feasibility and value engineering exercises to meet program scoping efforts, and options analysis and actively converts customer requirements to executable scope

What You'll Bring

• Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience
• Engineering experience on Data Center and industrial projects from concept to delivery with >10 years of demonstrated experience
• Experience building mission-critical facilities from scoping through proposal, design, procurement, construction, and commissioning
• Advanced project management skills and demonstrated application of project and program management fundamentals to complex engineering problems
• Excellent communication and documentation skills with the ability to understand complex problems and distill the message into a clear plan
• Subcontractor and consulting engineer management experience

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
• Earned Wage Access: Real-time pay access paid daily, subject to eligibility and schedule (applicable for below Sr. Managers levels)