Returnable Fleet Manager (m/w/d) – Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg

Tesla

Responsibilities

Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg
marks a defining moment in Europe for Tesla’s mission of accelerating the
world’s transition to sustainable energy. Here we will launch revolutionary
products on a massive scale, using extraordinary speed, innovation, and
efficiency. Our employees will ensure that we achieve our goals, and we welcome
you to help us write the next chapter of our success story. 

The
Material Planning group in Supply Chain is responsible for the reliable and
efficient flow of all production materials to Tesla’s factories and Service
locations. The returnable packaging team is managing packaging assets that are
used to move parts between suppliers and Tesla factories. As Project Manager,
you will have end-to-end responsibility for returnable packaging operations.
You will develop business cases to justify Capex investments, launch new
packaging programs, and ensure operational success of the packaging fleet. This
is a strategic supply chain role, interacting with suppliers, Finance, Material
Planning, Logistics, Global Supply Management, Packaging Engineering, and
Production Control in order to ensure returnable packaging programs are running
at best efficiency for packaging cost optimization.

Flexibility
and adaptability are key attributes needed for success in this role. Candidate
should have strong analytical, project management and leadership skills to handle
a variety of activities and complexities spanning the organization. Candidates
should have a strong background in Supply Chain/logistics processes and related
IT solutions and be willing to work at both a very detailed and strategic
level.

Requirements

  • Major in Industrial engineering, supply chain
    or related field
  • Professional work experience in supply chain,
    manufacturing or other process critical operations in a fast paced environment
  • Analytics savvy with strong proficiency in
    Excel and knowledge of SQL, Tableau and or other analytics tools
  • Ability to effectively communicate and work
    with people from all levels of the organization both at Tesla as well as at suppliers.
    Should be comfortable handling difficult conversations
  • Ability to evaluate and analyze data to enable
    operational decision-making or present clear recommendations to leadership
  • Capability to prioritize activities to have
    the largest operational impact
  • Lateral thinker with exceptional judgment –
    ability to develop process and drive schedules and also comfortable quickly
    changing direction when that is the best course of action.
  • Passionate and relentless in following up on
    issues until a final resolution achieved and sustained process improvements are
    deployed and verified
  • Demonstrated experience creating and improving
    processing and delivering results in an unstructured and fast-paced environment
  • Experience with automotive supply chains and
    processes a significant plus

You will be working in our state-of-the-art
Gigafactory where you’ll solve the world’s most interesting problems with the
best and brightest people who share a passion to change the world. Tesla’s compensation package includes a
competitive salary and Tesla shares or bonuses. Typical benefits that we
provide are 30 vacation days, an occupational pension, employee life and
disability insurances, free EV charging, product discounts and various
transportation benefits.