Maintenance Supervisor, Energy

About the role

• Maintenance Supervisor, Energy | Tesla (Manufacturing)
• Location: Sparks, Nevada | Req ID: 274359 | Job Type: Full-time
• What to Expect

Tesla is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor to join the Production Engineering team at the Gigafactory in Sparks, NV. We are seeking an energetic, skilled, cost-conscious, team-oriented individual to be responsible for the performance of equipment and maintenance technicians on shift. The incumbent will manage a team of technicians to ensure they perform at a high level while meeting the needs of the Energy production lines.

The individual will be responsible for all production engineering-related metrics for their shift (MTTR, MTBF, Response Times, etc.). They will manage the performance of their team to generate the highest value from every employee while maintaining a high level of technical ability within the group.

What You'll Do

• Hire, coach, lead and develop a team of technicians that maintain manufacturing equipment at Gigafactory Nevada
• Monitor metrics and Key Performance Indicator's (KPI's) to assess Safety, People, Quality, Cost and Productivity. Focus to Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and Response Times
• Drive improvement activities across the shift to increase team knowledge and skill capability, while working with equipment engineering to increase equipment uptime, availability and decrease scrap and NCM material
• Align with Engineering team to provide support for new equipment installation, startup, and hand over
• Improve preventative maintenance activities to decrease overall downtime. Troubleshoot down equipment using root cause analysis and suggest long-term countermeasures for elimination of the failure mode
• Work from schematics, diagrams, layouts, defined plans, and written/verbal instructions
• 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

What You'll Bring

• 1+ years of supervisory experience is preferred
• Demonstratable experience with Fanuc robots, to include teaching and fault recovery. PLC troubleshooting ability and experience. Fabrication experience using extrusion and welded/milling equipment
• Experience maintaining and troubleshooting industrial electrical panels/systems
• Effective verbal and written communications skills along with strong attention to detail, flexibility, and prioritization
• Maintains confidentiality of sensitive and proprietary information
• Able to wear all required PPE associated with required tasks
• Ability to sit, stand, and/or walk for 10+ hours per day, wear air purifying respirator as needed for specific tasks, Lift at least 20 lbs. on a regular basis, perform repetitive hand and wrist motions and sometimes may have to twist and bend body, and climb ladders/stairs

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)