Process Engineer

We’re looking for a Process Engineer to implement, develop, and optimize the production flow of used electric cars at Carla.

About Carla

At Carla we believe that more people should be able to drive electric. What drives us is to constantly improve things, primarily through accelerating the transition to electric mobility, and creating amazing customer experiences in an industry ripe for disruption. Therefore, we have set out to build the safest, most convenient and transparent way to sell, buy, or lease an electric car. Carla was founded in 2020 in Stockholm, with strong VC backing. We are now in an exciting growth phase and we're looking to hire people who have that magical mix of being great at what they do, show a strong drive, can obsess over consumer centricity, whilst being humble and eager to learn.

Recruitment need

Carla is looking for an exceptional Process Engineer to join our fast-growing operations team. In this role, you will support our operations leadership team in a busy and demanding production environment. Within production operations, we turn a sometimes flawed car into a perfect one that is ready for sale. The flow includes inspection, test drive, battery testing, ordering parts, car wash, reconditioning, repairs, re-inspection, quality control, photography, publishing on website, and delivery preparation.

Your main responsibility will be to identify and act upon development areas and implement new approaches and methodologies to improve operations in our brand new workshop in Kungsängen. The role is focusing on and working around tight deadlines to ensure customer requirements are being maintained and high quality standards are met.

Responsibilities

- As our process engineer you will implement, develop, and optimize production methodologies in the production operations of Carla.
- You will be responsible for optimizing car flow through the facility through process optimization.
- You will interface with finance, customer service, logistics to solve problems, improve lead times, improve quality, and implement continual improvement.
- Measure the impact of delays, disruptions and/or changes to plans and implement appropriate solutions.
- Work closely with the training team to identify and support employee training and development plans
- Responsible for diagnosing issues found during the part manufacturing process and drive corrective action back to source, resulting in root cause identification and elimination. Utilize structured problem solving techniques such as DMAIC, Ishikawa, Five Why (5W) and Eight Disciplines (8D).


Requirements:

- BS degree in engineering, mathematics, physical science or other applicable degree (advanced degree preferred)
- Experience developing and improving Process
- Strong problem solving skills and an aptitude for learning systems quickly. Able to utilize structured problem solving techniques such as DMAIC, Ishikawa, Five Why (5W) or Eight Disciplines (8D). Able to resolve high level performance issues into addressable actions.
- Data collection and analysis experience. Ability to develop data driven root cause analyses and solutions.


Soft Skills

- Exceptional capacity for managing simultaneous activities, competing priorities and challenges.
- Strong ability to work and communicate effectively with team and peers within a manufacturing and engineering organization. This includes excellent communication skills: written and verbal.
- Creative capacity for developing new ways to do things better, cheaper, faster in alignment with the Carla approach to revolutionary operations development.
- Passion for making fantastic new processes and using testing as a means to enable an engineering organization to achieve outstanding quality, reliability and excellence


What we offer

Most of all, this is a fantastic opportunity to work for a category-defining company, with great values, and a business model that doesn't talk about sustainability - but is based on it. What drives us is to constantly improve things, primarily by accelerating the transition to electric mobility, and creating amazing customer experiences in an industry ripe for disruption.

Apart from that, we offer:

- A career-defining role at an early-stage startup and an opportunity to grow and learn from knowledgeable co-workers
- We’re a startup, which means we work smarter not harder. Life-work balance still plays an important role in creating long-lasting productivity and output
- A workplace that believes strength is found in diversity. We hire people regardless of background, education, experience or gender
- Market competitive salary, and stock option program