Operations Maintenance Coordinator, Gulf Coast Lithium Refinery

Tesla’s Gulf Coast Lithium Refinery is looking for an Operations Maintenance Coordinator (OMC) to support production and help improve our first-of-its-kind facility in Robstown, TX. In this role, you will work with the Maintenance & Reliability, Operations, and Improvement teams to turn rate and reliability constraints into executable work, help keep jobs and materials moving through install, and get the plant ready for outages safely and efficiently. This is a unique chance to help scale a new chemical manufacturing process in support of Tesla’s mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

- Help prioritize work orders according to daily production constraints and plant data

- Coordinate downtime windows with production supervisors to minimize production interruptions due to routine maintenance, overhauls, and emergency repairs

- Work with Outage Planners to define outage-required scopes of work and coordinate seamless handover of equipment for outage-scheduled activities

- Monitor maintenance status, ETAs of parts and equipment to support daily Production planning

- Connect operational evidence to failures and work with optimization, production, and reliability engineers to improve work processes, SOPs, and implement solutions that prevent repeat failure and use learnings to support:
- Development of KPIs and performance dashboards
- Identify operating envelopes and best-practice operating guidelines
- Preventive and predictive maintenance strategies

- 7+ years of industry experience in refinery or chemical operations

- Demonstrated experience coordinating scopes across multi-disciplinary teams

- Proven work-management or CMMS experience (Hexagon EAM, SAP PM, Maximo)

- Proven ability to analyze complex operational data, identify trends, and translate findings into actionable, executable recommendations

- Experience applying structured RCA tools (including 5 Whys, Fishbone diagrams, and Cause-and-Effect charts) to investigate quality deviations and compliance gaps

- Familiarity with PI Vision or similar

- Strong fundamental understanding and use of engineering principles (e.g., mass & energy balances, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics) to diagnosis, investigate, and solve problems

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
- Earned Wage Access: Real-time pay access paid daily, subject to eligibility and schedule (applicable for below Sr. Managers levels)