Manufacturing Controls Engineer, Roadster

Tesla is seeking a Controls Engineer for the Roadster Manufacturing team to be part of a world-class team of engineers responsible for designing and building the automation and equipment at the Tesla factories. As a Controls Engineer, you are responsible for deploying programmable logic controllers (PLCs) solutions that improve machine reliability, uptime, and performance. This includes providing support activities during machine design, retools, code updates, installations, debugging, testing, and configurations. Controls Engineers use equipment data to help validate changes and improve performance of the manufacturing process. There will be occasional support of night shift and weekend shifts as needed.

Architect, write, and debug PLC and Script based controls systems with an emphasis on generating code that is organized, structured, documented, maintainable and reusable. PLC code will interact with subsystems such as conveyors, robots, Manufacturing Operations System (MOS), LabView, machine vision, and 3rd party equipmentUse machine data to improve OEE with a focus on equipment availability, quality, and safetyDeploy and manage SCADA and HMI screens for complex lines and machinesSupport maintenance in troubleshooting downtime by using Controls and Electrical engineering skillsTrain operators, maintenance, and engineers to best practices around machines under your scopeCharacterize and validate automated processes using a data driven statistical approach such as Capacity and Capability test (GR&R, CpK)Manage change control with cross functional teams and validation with PLC fleetDegree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent - Majors in: Controls and Computer Control Systems, Mechatronic Engineering, Automation Engineering, etc.), or the equivalent in experienceExperience programming Cartesian, SCARA and Articulated robots is highly desired (Fanuc, Kuka, ABB, Epson)Experience with Vision Systems (Cognex, Keyence, Halcon, FanucExperience working with PLCs: Beckhoff, Siemens, Allen BradleExperience working with SCADA and HMI like Ignition, WinCC, TcHMIExperience in networks communications like EtherCAT, EIP, Profinet, DatabasesExperience in Python, Go Lang, Structured Text is a plusBenefits

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