Lead Repair Technician, Body in White, Semi

About the Role

The Body Repair Technician Lead will oversee a team of Body Repair Technicians, reporting directly to the supervisor. You will assist in developing the team to address safety, quality, and rate, while collaborating with various teams including General Assembly, Quality, Paint, Design, and Engineering. This role involves supporting issue resolution, including root cause investigation and corrective action tracking, and assisting with body line KPIs while fostering a positive problem-solving approach.

Responsibilities

• Directly lead a team of body repair technicians to meet daily safety, quality, and production targets.
• Develop team members by maintaining a training schedule and learning environment.
• Assign daily workload, communicate expectations, and produce daily reports for management visibility.
• Ensure standardized work is followed for repairs and fitting; partner with quality support to verify work.
• Escalate issues for quick resolution and provide solutions to existing problems.
• Understand approved repairs and collaborate with design on new methods.
• Ensure adherence to required safety procedures and processes.
• Evaluate process design and tooling improvements; suggest and implement new ideas to improve quality, reduce cost, and support production.
• Perform body repairs and fitting of closures to body line CVIS spec/deviations and train others to meet the same standards.
• Understand basic methods of auto body repair and fitting on both raw metal and painted bodies.

Requirements

• Minimum 6 months of body repair technician experience.
• Ability to work and communicate with peers and other departments to foster a team environment.
• Good understanding of manufacturing processes.
• Ability to work independently or with minimal supervision.
• Ability to understand process concerns and set plans to improve quality, safety, productivity, and cost.
• Computer skills, including the ability to generate and email reports.
• Command of the English language, both written and verbal.

Essential Physical Demands

• Ability to perform physically demanding work for extended periods, up to 12 hours a day.
• Ability to stand and walk for up to 12 hours/day, including over varied and uneven terrain.
• Frequently and repetitively lift, push, and carry up to 50 lbs., including carrying 20 lbs. up and down stairs.
• Frequently and repetitively bend, lift, and reach to install parts.
• Stoop, lay, bend, reach, squat, kneel, crouch, twist, and crawl for extended periods, up to 12 hours/day.
• Climb and maintain balance on ladders, scaffolding, or other high structures.
• Ability to identify issues in a work process and receive safety signals using sight, touch, and hearing.
• Wear Personal Protective Equipment, including safety glasses, safety shoes, and bump cap, while adhering to prescribed safety rules.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and full-time Tesla employee benefits starting on day 1 of hire.
• Medical plans with $0 payroll deduction.
• Family-building, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans with $0 paycheck contribution options.
• Company-paid Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan.
• 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, 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 including 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.