Industrial Engineering Internship

Job Description

About Tesla’s Internship Program:

Tesla’s internship program is a year-round initiative focused on identifying and developing emerging talent. The program offers internships lasting a minimum of 12 weeks, full-time and on-site. Interns work closely with their manager, mentor, and team on projects critical to the team’s success, gaining technical, professional, and personal growth. The program is designed for students currently enrolled in an academic program; recent graduates should apply for full-time positions. International students with CPT work authorization must verify their eligibility for 40 hours per week on-site work with their school. Multiple locations are possible: Fremont, CA; Lathrop, CA; Palo Alto, CA; Austin, TX.

Job Description: Industrial Engineering Internship

Applications for the Industrial Engineering Internship will be considered across several teams: Supplier Quality, Supplier Industrialization, and Industrial Engineering.

Supplier Quality: Interns will contribute to critical component development, quality management, continuous improvement, and supplier qualification. Responsibilities include: effective communication (internal and external), failure analysis, statistical process control, limited travel to suppliers, on-the-spot decision-making, implementing Lean methodologies, managing supplier scorecards, ensuring supplier compliance, driving problem-solving and process improvement, prioritizing supplier tasks, collaborating with the Supply Chain Team on design changes, capacity studies, new product introductions, and transfers.

Supplier Industrialization: Interns will focus on critical component development and qualification at suppliers. Responsibilities include: effective communication (internal and external), travel to suppliers, on-the-spot decision-making, evaluating design for manufacturing risks, assessing manufacturing process feasibility (dispensing, pick and place, screwing, laser welding, etc.), leading internal program reviews for major NPI projects (Gantt charts, milestone tracking, escalation meetings), tracking engineering development phases and DFM, monitoring product yield, reporting daily program issues, collecting data (potentially hands-on), developing data collection plans and DOE plans to identify relationships between input and output factors, and root-causing performance drift.

Industrial Engineering: Interns will work on projects involving either supplier improvement or process improvement for manufacturing or material flow. Responsibilities include: effective communication (internal and external), on-the-spot decision-making, planning, directing, and conducting industrialization-related activities within the supply chain team, developing, managing, auditing, and correcting supplier planning and execution of component manufacturing, assembly, and quality processes, collaborating with Tesla Design, Quality, and Manufacturing to determine ideal performance specifications and supplier metrics, validating supplier corrective actions (design and/or process changes), leading supplier improvements in scalability, cost, and quality, and validating suppliers to meet part performance, delivery, and reliability expectations.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Currently pursuing a degree in Industrial, Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing Engineering or a related field.
• Experience with GD&T, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, CATIA, and MiniTab.
• Experience operating basic tools and equipment in a manufacturing environment.
• Exposure to lean manufacturing principles and concepts.
• Previous experience in production control, project management, root cause analysis, material flow, manufacturing, process engineering, internal consulting, systems engineering, and/or warehousing.
• Knowledge of PPAP/APQP processes.
• Self-starter with a proactive approach to process improvement, part quality, and efficiency.
• Software skills: MySQL, Tableau, Excel, flowcharting software.
• Bonus skills: R, Python.