U.S. electric car maker Tesla is hiring a large number of employees for its California-based energy storage battery factory, Megafactory, with the goal of producing 40 GWh of energy storage batteries annually. Last year, Tesla began construction of a new energy storage battery factory in Lathrop, California, to produce Megapack energy storage batteries for utility energy storage projects.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that the storage battery factory’s capacity target is to produce 40 GWh Megapack energy storage batteries per year.
So far, Tesla’s new factory has been under construction for a year and has started hiring a large number of employees.
Michael Snyder, senior director of engineering and construction for Tesla’s energy program, announced the plans on the recruitment platform LinkedIn.
"If you or someone you know is looking for a new position producing transformational products and wants to be a part of the energy transition wave, check out our positions at the Lathrop Megafactory energy storage battery plant. This plant is massive and mind-blowing, and we are working to increase our annual capacity of energy storage batteries to 40 GWh, and what you can see is the future of energy storage form."
Snyder highlighted the goal of Tesla’s new energy storage plant to “produce 40 GWh of energy storage batteries per year”. It is important to note that Tesla delivered only about 4 GWh of energy storage products last year.
Snyder detailed the various positions at the plant: “Positions cover all areas of testing, controls, quality, equipment and process engineering, with a variety of roles such as technicians, production assistants and technical project managers. With unprecedented pressure on the grid around the world today, this is a truly unique job opportunity.”
Tesla lists 37 categories of job openings at the energy storage battery plant, most of which are related to engineering and quality control, but there are also openings for production assistants, which usually means it’s close to the time the plant will start production.
Last year, Tesla raised the price of Megapack energy storage batteries because of a backlog of energy storage products waiting to be delivered through 2023.
Elon Musk has long believed that Tesla’s energy business will become a distributed global utility, with a business that could even outstrip the company’s electric car business. Increasing the capacity of energy storage products such as Megapack is critical to achieving that goal.
