Manager, Equipment Maintenance

Tesla is looking for exceptional maintenance leader with a wide skillset and deep understanding of equipment maintenance to join our Seat manufacturing plant. The Manager will be responsible for managing, inspiring and developing a team made up of Supervisors, Technicians and Leads. The Manager provides hands-on support, leadership, and direction to their direct reports, and takes pride in their hands-on and analytical abilities, organizational skills and attention to detail. The ideal candidate excels at resource allocation and has a very hands-on attitude. This individual recognizes the discipline required to keep production equipment running but has the flexibility to adapt in an ever-changing environment.

• Develop and maintain maintenance procedures and schedules for existing and future equipment, while ensuring adherence to a safe work culture and improve upon safety, as needed, assist with budget development and reporting, manage and coordinate contract services as needed
• Procedures & PMs/ TPM, develop & maintain proper documentation of all necessary procedures; periodic maintenance tasks; equipment changes (electrical, spare parts upgrades, mechanical), etc.
• Train, develop, and manage the maintenance team, work with engineering and operations regularly to ensure needs are aligned, provide reports on equipment status as needed
• Work with inventory management to track and maintain spares and specialized tooling, while maintaining spare parts inventory, identifying and ordering needed parts and updating tracking system
• Equipment Operation Availability / % OEE improvement: System development to track current shop conditions and identification of key areas of improvement
• Breakdown management: Understanding of short term vs long term actions and systems used to prevent repeat occurrences
• Build relationships with other functional Sustaining Engineering departments to leverage abilities across the facility