Automation Controls Technician, Cell Tabless
Tesla is seeking highly motivated Automation Controls Technicians to join the 4680 Battery Cell Team. This role focuses on the installation, start-up, ramp-up, and ongoing support of highly automated manufacturing tools and equipment. Working alongside top-tier engineering teams, the technician will enhance equipment reliability, minimize downtime, and act as a first responder to manage machine breakdown recoveries, ensuring seamless production operations.
What You’ll Do
- Maintain standardized work procedures for PLC troubleshooting, testing, and automated equipment controls in collaboration with manufacturing engineering peers
- Assist in all areas of automated equipment maintenance and troubleshooting to meet equipment yield and availability targets for the cell team
- Troubleshoot and maintain controls components including PLCs, safety devices, HMIs, servo drives, process hardware, and robots
- Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while managing multiple priorities effectively
- Operate equipment using internal or third-party software to analyze logs and troubleshoot issues
What You’ll Bring
- Minimum of 2 years of controls technician experience in a high-volume manufacturing environment
- Skilled in troubleshooting electromechanical systems and building and wiring industrial electrical cabinets
- Proficient in Siemens PLC language, Fanuc robots, SCADA, and HMI systems such as Ignition, WinCC, or Simatic
- Basic user-level knowledge of MS Excel, PowerPoint, PLM, and ERP systems
- Strong command of the English language, both written and verbal
- Basic drafting skills for electrical prints in AutoCAD or EPLAN
- Skills in programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Python, or VB are preferred for learning Beckhoff PLC
Essential Physical Demands:
- Ability to perform physically demanding work for extended periods of time, up to 12 hours a day
- Ability to stand and walk for up to 12 hours/day, including over varied and uneven terrain
- Frequently and repetitively, lift, push and carry up to 35 lbs., including the ability to carry 20 lbs. up and down stairs
- Frequently and repetitively, bend, lift and reach to install parts
- Stoop, lay, bend, reach, squat, kneel, crouch, twist and crawl for extended periods of time, including up to 12 hours/day
- Climb and maintain balance on ladders, scaffolding or other high structures
- Ability to find issues in a work process and receive safety signals using sight, touch, and hearing
- Wearing Personal Protective Equipment, including but not limited to: safety glasses, safety shoes, bump cap and adhering to prescribed safety rules and guidelines