Industrial Engineering Internship, Supply Chain (Spring 2023)
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Internship Program at Tesla
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Locations
Fremont, CA
Lathrop, CA
Palo Alto, CA
Reno, NV
About the Team
An Industrial Engineering intern will either work on projects involving suppliers or process improvement for manufacturing or material flow. . The job involves communicating well with internal and external teams and on-the-spot critical decision making. The goal: delivering on time quantities of high quality component parts into Tesla’s production processes to enable extremely rapid development cycles and product launches.
What You’ll Do
- Plan, direct and conduct industrialization related activities within supply chain team.
- Develop, manage, audit and correct supplier planning and execution of component manufacturing, assembly, and quality processes.
- Collaborate with Tesla Design, Quality, and Manufacturing to determine the ideal performance specification and supplier metrics.
- Validate supplier corrective actions involving design and/or process changes to ensure they are robust, sustainable, and implemented across potential manufacturing lines.
- Validate suppliers to ensure their ability to meet part performance, delivery and reliability expectations.
- Lead supplier improvements in scalability, cost, and quality.
What You’ll Bring
- Currently working towards a Bachelor or Master’s degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Electrical, Mechanical or Systems Engineering
- Exposure to lean manufacturing principles and concepts; bonus - application of these principles leading to real world results
- Previous experience in production control, material flow, manufacturing, process engineering, internal consulting, systems engineering, and/or warehousing.
- Software skills: MySQL, Tableau, Excel, flowcharting software
- Bonus: R, Python
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