Quality Engineer, Installation

What to Expect

As a Process & Quality Engineer within the Residential Energy team at Tesla, you will play a critical role on the Quality Engineering team to establish and maintain quality standards for energy product installations and services. This role focuses on ensuring high quality and efficient process within the Installation org, while collaborating across sales engineering, solar system design, construction, inspections, and supply chain processes to achieve happy customers, reduced costs, and shorter cycle times.

You will collaborate cross-functionally to develop, deploy, and validate changes that determine potential risks and drive resolution of high-risk quality assurance issues into process controls. In addition, you will establish and maintain control plans to ensure critical features are controlled and monitored. To support Installation Quality, you will develop criteria for audits and controls based on product specification and process - critical requirements.

• Work with field Quality teams to determine root cause and countermeasures for quality issues
• Track performance metrics, prioritize top issues, and drive continuous improvement activities with cross-functional teams for residential installations
• Analyze data from across the Tesla ecosystem to expose, highlight, and evaluate quality trends
• Manage projects and processes for new product introductions and sustaining products, developing standard processes, work instructions, quality standards, and troubleshooting steps for install teams
• Maintain tool and part catalogs, test new tools and parts, and evaluate changes to tools and parts
• Focus on improving cycle times, key performance indicators such as defect rate, efficiency, yield, and profit, and simplifying process structures

• Degree in Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 3-5 years of experience as a quality engineer/specialist, project manager, operations manager, or similar role in an operations environment
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically (5-10%)
• Knowledge of energy system installation and design requirements, familiarity with electrical code, or knowledge of construction and roofing techniques
• Field experience in solar installation or similar fields in residential construction such as roofing or energy storage
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to establish effective working relationships throughout the organization
• Demonstrated analytical skills with familiarity in basic SQL as a plus

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 with plan options and $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, with 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

Expected Compensation

$92,000 - $174,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits

Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.