What to Expect
Location: Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg
Time Type: Full-time
Duration: 6 months
Start date: August 2026
As a Safety Specialist intern, you make a valuable contribution to our core company goals. Through active involvement, you help reduce risks across our processes and equipment, ultimately leading to greater safety for our employees across various areas of our factory. Your work supports all occupational health and safety topics in manufacturing areas such as body shop, paint shop, and final assembly, through to battery cell manufacturing and powertrain. You gain deep insight into our manufacturing processes and ways of working, shaped by "First Principles Thinking" — the approach of consistently challenging the status quo in order to improve things from the ground up. In doing so, you apply your knowledge directly in practice and work closely with experts from disciplines such as occupational safety, machine safety, ergonomics, and occupational hygiene.
What You'll Do
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Accident analysis and corrective action development: Supporting the systematic investigation of workplace accidents and near-misses, helping to analyze root causes and derive effective corrective and preventive measures to sustainably improve occupational safety.
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Creation of occupational health and safety documentation: Contributing to the preparation of hazard assessments, risk assessments, operating instructions, and training materials.
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Safety inspection of machinery: Inspecting machines and equipment prior to commissioning to ensure compliance with applicable safety standards and legal regulations (e.g., Machinery Regulation, DGUV regulations).
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Artificial intelligence: Identifying potential applications for AI solutions within the department, developing and optimizing corresponding concepts, and supporting their implementation — from the initial idea through to successful deployment in the relevant area of application.
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Requests from specialist departments: Receiving and handling various requests from internal departments, ranging from workplace measurements such as noise level assessments to questions regarding the setup of new workstations.
What You'll Bring
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Studies: Currently enrolled as a student in an advanced semester of a relevant degree program, such as Safety Engineering, Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Automation Engineering, or a comparable field of study.
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Languages: Very good German and good English language skills, both written and spoken.
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Basic knowledge: Ideally, some initial theoretical or practical knowledge in the areas of machine safety and occupational health and safety is expected.
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IT skills: Confident use of common MS Office applications as well as AI-powered tools is required.
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Personality: A structured, independent, and proactive working style defines the ideal candidate's approach, with open and clear communication.
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Motivated to achieve more together, a strong sense of responsibility, reliability, and the ability to work well in a team round out the profile.
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Candidates are expected to uphold and actively promote sustainability principles in their daily work, operating in line with Tesla Global Environmental, Health, Safety & Security (EHS&S) Policy and EMAS requirements, fostering a culture of continuous environmental improvement.
Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.
We will accept applications for this job until July 31, 2026, after which this posting will be removed.
