What to Expect
Tesla Infrastructure Engineering is looking for a Process Design Engineer to support process design of pure water, ultrapure water, industrial wastewater treatment, and water reuse systems to support automotive factories, data centers, and battery manufacturing facilities, and industrial plants. The Process Design team strives to create the factory of the future by bringing conceptual designs to life, producing cutting-edge detailed designs of chemical and utility systems that are fully integrated with Tesla’s advanced manufacturing processes.
What You'll Do-
Apply engineering fundamentals and a broad set of process engineering tools to solve technical problems and create novel detailed designs for various pure water, ultrapure water, wastewater treatment, and water reuse processes and supporting chemical systems such as bulk solids equipment, chemical dosing systems, and separations equipment
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Contribute to front-end and detailed process designs for complex and program-level projects, including scope development, Basis of Design documentation, PFDs, P&IDs, pressure drop analysis and hydraulics modeling, pressure relief valve calculations, equipment datasheets, process simulation (i.e. Aspen Plus), and supporting Sequence of Operations / Controls Narrative documents
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Provide technical expertise to the engineering/design team and other groups within Tesla
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Participate in commercial contracting activities, including development of scopes of work, evaluation of bid packages, performing bid analysis, competitive bid leveling, and working with Procurement to prepare commercial subcontracts
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Participate in field construction and commissioning activities by serving as the point of contact for technical questions and real-time issue resolution
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Review process design work performed by others on the Process Team
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Provide process engineering support to facilities operations and manufacturing teams to help resolve process bottlenecks and other long-standing issues and mentor less experienced engineers on the team
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Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering or the equivalent in experience
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5+ years of experience in process design, process improvement or operations of water systems. Emphasis on design of new installations is required. A combination of experience with an owner/operator and an EPC firm
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Experience with the following processes and equipment: industrial wastewater treatment, high purity water, membrane filtration, ion exchange, slurry systems, bulk chemical systems, solid/liquid separations equipment, crystallization systems, and piping networks
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Registration as a Professional Engineer is preferred but not required
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Knowledge related to North American / United States codes, standards, and regulations (API, ASME, ASME/BPVC, ASTM, ISO, NFPA, etc.)
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Ability to lead or participate in process hazard evaluations of the equipment listed above
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Working knowledge of AutoCAD, Navisworks, Bluebeam Revu, Aspen Plus, Aspen HYSYS, and Pipe-Flo
Benefits
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:
- Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
- Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
- Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
- Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
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Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
- Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
- Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
- Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
- Tesla Babies program
- Commuter benefits
- Employee discounts and perks program
Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.
