The Ergonomist as a member of the Ergonomics manufacturing shared services team based at the Fremont Factory, focuses on setting the right conditions of work – from hiring and training to manufacturing and production – such that all Tesla employees can achieve and sustain healthy, high-performance work. What does this mean? It means this individual is not content with just eliminating the risk of injury but goes further to help ensure healthy, high human performance is “designed-in” to the human-work system. This individual will support the management of change, advocates the designing-in of work system feedback loops, works to accommodate a wide range of people both physically and mentally, and design ways to build fatigue recovery into all human-based work. This individual also pays particular attention to the interaction of humans and automated equipment including robots.

The Ergonomist is expected to properly apply semi-quantitative and advanced risk assessment tools with a high degree of proficiency, demonstrate a clear understanding of function allocation (in the context of job design), and have a polished comfort in both facilitating gemba problem-solving and building ergonomics competency in others. In addition, this individual will be expected to communicate recommendations brightly and briefly to employees at all levels in the company. Ability to provide support on multiple sites within the Bay Area needed.