Engineering Program Manager – Vehicle Engineering (m/w/d) - Berlin, Germany

What To Expect
Join Vehicle Engineering in Berlin to help launch the next generation of cutting-edge automotive products for Tesla. Our world-class engineering teams operate with a non-conventional automotive product development philosophy of high interdisciplinary collaboration, flat organizational structure, and technical contribution at all levels. You will be expected to challenge and be challenged, to create, to innovate. You must want to work in a fast-paced environment company. We are building real products. This must excite you. You’ll work alongside accomplished, world-renowned engineers on perhaps the most exciting automotive programs in existence today.  

The Vehicle Engineering Program Manager will support the vehicle engineering organization by setting the right priorities in an environment with many competing needs, as well as managing executions of timely delivery of products, product revisions, features, fixes, and releases. Their main task will be supporting new program launches within the vehicle engineering organization. Additionally, the program manager will be supporting the various design teams within the vehicle engineering organization with critical design issues in production, managing timelines on upcoming design changes, organizing prototype builds, and tracking critical KPIs for the team. The role requires problem solving skills, exceptional teamwork, and communication skills as you will be working with many cross functional teams.

What You'll Do

Work with and support Engineering Managers, Design Engineers and Vehicle level Program Managers on defining, implementing and driving program requirements

Manage timelines, communications, quality, risks, communicating roadblocks & critical paths, and any other issues that arise for the launch and validation of new vehicle sub-systems and components in all Tesla factory locations.

Organize and lead project specific meetings with key internal stakeholders, drive decision and escalate, if needed.

Support local cross functions with new product BOM validations including managing local part number releases where necessary

Manage local engineering prototype builds

Plan for local changes, initiated by the Engineering team, of parts and systems according to Tesla Change Management process

Collaborate with local cross functions to support overall vehicle launch milestones and prototype/production build events

What You'll Bring

Education background in engineering / science discipline, or equivalent experience and evidence of exceptional ability

Experience in project planning, tracking schedules, risk mitigation with business degree preferred

Motivated, active collaborator - ability to work cross-functionally between engineering, production, and supply chain personnel.

Strong capabilities in visualization of data, schedules and program risks – Powerpoint and Excel skills are a must

Ability to find creative resolutions to technical and cross-functional challenges

Detail oriented with strong record-keeping and organizational skills

Catia/CAD and BOM management skills preferred

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