About the position
Tesla is seeking a talented Senior Engineer dedicated to the Process Safety efforts at Gigafactory Texas. This role involves leading factory engineering technical deep dives, options analysis, and risk assessments for both green field and brown field engineering projects. The Senior Engineer will gather and develop a deep understanding of stakeholder requirements to identify potential hazards and operability issues in early factory development. Additionally, the position requires defining and effectively communicating factory design safety and hazard prioritization for internal and external factory engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Leads factory engineering technical deep dives & options analysis & risk assessments for green field and brown field engineering projects
- Gathers and develops a deep understanding of stakeholder requirements needed to identify potential hazards and operability issues in early factory development
- Defines & effectively communicates factory design safety & hazard prioritization for internal and external factory engineering teams
- Drives scoping & implementation of engineering safety/ hazard mitigation design strategies
- Owns execution of high-quality risk assessments & risk management deliverables
- Facilitates risk assessments and works with external consultants/ partners as needed to conduct risks assessments such as HAZOP, What-IF, PHA, and other risk assessment methods
- Leads efforts for modeling scenarios and works with external consultants/ partners as needed to conduct modeling such as CFD, FDS, PHAST, Canary, iPRISM, ALOHA, and other risk modeling tools
- Leads follow-through reviews/ coordination to ensure identified risks & mitigation efforts have been included in engineering design
- Supports technical studies such as feasibility and value engineering exercises related to safety & risk management
- Assists in Hazardous Chemical management program as required
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent experience
- Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams within Architectural/Engineering/ Process Engineering firms to identify and implement PSM engineering requirements
- Full understanding of core engineering disciplines and ability to demonstrate skills to manage and facilitate engineering resources
- Experience designing manufacturing facilities, Chemical Process, Battery, Oil & Gas, or Semiconductor
- Excellent communication and documentation skills with the ability to understand complex problems and distill the message into a clear plan
Nice-to-haves
- PHA/HAZOP/What-If facilitation or technical evaluation experience highly desired
- Dispersion analysis, flammability analysis, consequence modeling, combustible dust hazards, reactive hazard analyses & evaluation, is a plus
