Company: Tesla
Role: Electrical Engineer
Duration: 6-month contract to hire
Location: Lathrop, CA
What to Expect:
The Facilities team has an immediate opportunity for a Senior Electrical Engineer to play an integral role in the growth and maintenance of our facility. Candidates should possess direct construction experience building high-tech infrastructure and operational facilities (from industries such as semiconductor, solar, battery, etc.). This is a field-based position to support 24/7 manufacturing facilities located in Lathrop California.
What You'll Do:
- Perform Energy Audits, Provide Energy Usage Calculations Circuit Analysis for critical load throughout the plant and circuit protection for Voltage Sag for critical loads
- Validation, optimization and efficiency analysis for cost savings and reduction of energy throughout the plant
- Operate equipment and program/adjust medium voltage relays and breaker settings
- Prepare engineering specifications for bid invitation, evaluate, and perform bid evaluation and conformed bid evaluations for purchase related to ongoing maintenance (preventive) activities
- Assist Operations and Maintenance in planning outages by supporting the coordination of downtime activities and needs between stakeholders (Construction, Facility, and Manufacturing team)
- Review design plans/specifications prepared by others and provide base cost estimating services within electrical scope, and work with trades to drive value for Tesla
- Visits construction sites to determine compliance with design intent, reporting discrepancies, errors and omissions and utilizes this input to update standards, processes, and procedures
- Establishes standards and specifications for installation, modification, quality control, testing, operation, inspection, and maintenance of Emergency Power Supply System (EPSS) and high voltage electrical systems according to commissioning standards, NFPA requirements, EPSS engineering principles and safety regulations
- Provide technical and configuration support for the implementation and maintenance of energy systems utilizing tracking techniques and trending software and leading root cause analysis on process or asset failures
- Work across sites to determine commonality and implement best practice to improve in electrical asset effectiveness, availability, and maintainability