About this role
Senior Manufacturing Controls Engineer Tesla Tilburg, Netherlands What to Expect As the Sr Controls Engineer for the Remanufacturing team, you will lead the site's automation controls strategy and team, driving the technical vision for current and future manufacturing capabilities. Working closely with IT, you will integrate OT/IT systems to enable seamless data flow between the shop floor and enterprise platforms. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams - including Maintenance, Quality, Process, EHS, IE, and Production - to identify and resolve equipment and controls-related failures, improve controls that eliminate or mitigate safety and quality risks, and leverage automation to reduce cycle time, driving technical solutions from concept through deployment. What You'll Do - Define and drive the site's automation controls roadmap, setting technical direction, priorities, and standards while collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve controls that eliminate or mitigate safety and quality risks; - Drive initial equipment conceptual development, balancing product specs, process controls, layout, cost, quality, and lead-time; manage automation projects end-to-end including specification, FAT/SAT, installation, and commissioning; - Partner with IT to integrate OT/IT systems - including MES connectivity, SCADA architecture, industrial networking, and data acquisition - enabling real-time data flow, production analytics, and KPI visibility across the shop floor and enterprise platforms; - Implement control-reliable safety systems for robots, gantries, conveyors, and other high-volume manufacturing equipment with consideration for OT cybersecurity principles (network segmentation, access control); - Architect, write, and debug PLC logic and subsystem programs (robots, vision, test equipment, MES) with strong focus on structure, documentation, maintainability, and reusability; - Define and maintain Tesla specificatio...