Tesla Motors, Inc. Looking for CAD Technician at Fremont, CA  Full Time

Tesla is currently seeking a motivated and accomplished CAD tech
who will be the subject matter expert leading CAD design and layout creation for
the factory planning team.

The factory planning team is responsible for developing design
which supports seamless integration between production, operations, material
flow, construction, and facilities teams. Innovation is expected. Through a
detailed understanding of the high-level objectives and extensive collaboration
with the internal and external teams designing individual facility components,
this team ensures that the overall facilities master plan achieves all of
Tesla’s objectives.

As
the factory planning CAD tech, you will own project level factory layouts,
while also developing individual assembly layouts with stakeholders, creating
technical drawings of equipment assemblies, owning bill-of-materials, creating
layouts from field measurements, and maintaining change-management. The ideal
candidate will excel in a demanding and fast-paced environment where they will
work as part of a strong, agile, and highly motivated team to accomplish some
of the most ambitious projects being attempted in any industry today. He/She
takes pride in his/her thoroughness, analytical ability, organizational skills,
and attention to detail. The candidate will be able to think at a systems level
about ambiguous problems and use strong logic and computation to develop layout
strategies. A successful applicant will have the ability to analyze a problem
using a first principles approach, work with stakeholders to collect impacts,
and synthesize recommendations in a concise, cohesive manner.

• Manage project level factory layout CAD
• Integrate the work of both the layout team and various tool-line owners working on a given project, as well as coordinating the efforts of the design team using the model for planning and conceptual work
• Taking field measurements of existing equipment to build and assemble clean and efficient layouts that supports best use of space provided to a project
• Create and maintain 2D documentation for existing and new assembly lines, egress, office space, production control space, and storage.
• Maintain, and teach best practices for efficient factory layouts and new space requests
• Responsible for proper set up and maintenance of large, federated building cad layouts involving 8-10 design and engineering disciplines. Projects are typically cloud-hosted and span across multiple internal and external design teams.
• Support the design coordination of CAD layouts, design kick-off and design review meetings
• Coordinate the cad layouts produced by the Design Team, Trade Contractors, and other third-party vendors under their direction

• Values the discipline to be self-driven, curiosity to think outside the box and drive unique solutions, and the courage to speak up and present new ideas when the path forward may be uncertain
• Associates or higher degree in Drafting, Architecture, or Engineering
• Minimum 2+ years of experience in CAD/ BIM 3D environment.
• Expert knowledge with Autocad, Solidworks, Revit, and BIM 360
• Experience working on highly complex large scale infrastructure projects
• Project management and leadership experience in a professional environment is preferred
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical team members effectively
• Ability to effectively execute many projects and tasks in parallel
• Thrives under pressure and in ambiguous environments
• Great people skills and the ability to work cross functionally with multiple teams