Sr. Technical Program Manager, Packaging PMO

Description

Tesla’s North America Packaging Engineering organization designs and delivers packaging that protects parts and enables efficient material flow across factories, distribution centers, and service locations.

We are hiring a Technical Project Manager to lead the Packaging Engineering Project Management Office (PMO). You will build the operating system behind the engineering work: portfolio visibility, standards, tools, budget cadence, talent operations, and performance frameworks that help packaging engineers and TPMs move faster with clear priorities.

This is an org-enablement role. You will partner with packaging engineers, project managers, supplier industrialization engineers, finance, operations, and factory stakeholders to drive consistency, accountability, and scale.

The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, turns multi-site complexity into simple repeatable systems, and is equally effective in leadership reviews, project trackers, budget forecasts, and hands-on process workshops.

Responsibilities

• Build and continuously improve PMO frameworks for North America Packaging Engineering, including templates, ownership models, escalation paths, and lightweight best practices designed for speed across multi-site operations
• Own organization-level portfolio visibility: prioritization support, capacity and bandwidth planning, risk tracking, stage-gate rhythm, and leadership-ready dashboards and KPIs
• Run PMO and organization budget rhythms, including forecasting, tracking, CapEx and business-case support, ROI and savings rollups, and clear financial reporting to leadership
• Lead evaluation, adoption, training, and lifecycle management of AI and productivity tools to reduce cycle time on trackers, business cases, reporting, and repetitive operational work
• Partner with leadership and HR on workforce planning, including hiring pipeline support, role scoping, onboarding, training programs, attrition analysis, and succession readiness
• Identify systemic gaps across handoffs, compliance, supplier and portal workflows, distribution center and factory interfaces, and documentation, then lead continuous improvement programs that unlock engineering bandwidth

Requirements

• Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Business, or equivalent experience and evidence of exceptional ability
• 5+ years in technical program management, PMO leadership, or operations excellence in manufacturing, automotive, supply chain, or other high-volume environments
• Proven experience standing up or scaling PMO operating systems, including portfolio governance, capacity planning, budgeting, KPIs, and executive reporting
• Experience partnering with HR and managers on workforce programs such as hiring, onboarding, training, and IC performance frameworks
• Hands-on with modern project, collaboration, and analytics tools, plus a track record of rolling out AI or productivity tools
• Working knowledge of CapEx, business cases, and cross-functional financial or stage reviews
• Packaging, automotive, energy, manufacturing, or distribution experience. PMP, Lean, or Six Sigma, are pluses

Compensation and Benefits

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
• 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

Expected Compensation

$112,000 - $253,200/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits

Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.