Tesla Giga Mexico jobs disappear from the company’s career page

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Amid Tesla’s layoffs, the company’s job listings from its official website have disappeared. 

In December 2023, Tesla Mexico posted new job positions in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo León (NL), near the company’s next gigafactory. At the time, the company was looking for an Indirect Procurement Manager for Giga Mexico in Santa Catarina, NL.

In February 2024, Tesla ramped up its hiring efforts for sales and service jobs in Mexico. It also posted vacant positions for its Supercharger Network, energy storage, and solar business in the country. 

In early Q2 2024, an Elon Musk email leak revealed that Tesla planned to lay off 10% of its global staff. The layoffs have already affected workers in China and the United States. The layoffs in China and the United States were swift, with some employees sharing that they were effective immediately. Meanwhile, in Europe, Tesla layoffs must follow procedure and are slower to execute. 

As for Mexico, Tesla seems to have paused its hiring efforts in the country. Although, NL’s State Secretary of Economy assured that Tesla’s layoffs would not affect Giga Mexico’s construction. 

“As we prepare the company for our next phase of growth, it is extremely important to look at every aspect of the company for cost reductions and increasing productivity.

“As part of this effort, we have done a thorough review of the organization and made the difficult decision to reduce our headcount by more than 10% globally. There is nothing I hate more, but it must be done,” said Elon Musk.

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Tesla Giga Berlin protests impact production schedule

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Protesters at Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin have caused a slight impact on the company’s production schedule at the plant.

Tesla will not open on Friday for production, and all employees will be required to work from home to avoid issues with the protesters at the plant. The plant will be closed for four days, including Thursday’s holiday, Friday’s protest, and the weekend.

Production at the plant will stop after the late shift on Wednesday and resume with a late shift on Sunday, and access to the plant will only be available if a manager approves it, according to Handelsblatt, who first reported the story:

“No access to the site or the factory is possible without the explicit instructions and approval of your manager.”

Tesla has plans to expand its Gigafactory Berlin plant, but protesters are more concerned about the environmental aspects of the factory’s growth. The forests surrounding the current plant structure will need to be knocked down to make way for new buildings.

Protesters have even built treehouses in the forest near the factory and inhabited them to stop the potential for trees to be knocked down.

They said they planned to live in the treehouses “indefinitely.”

German politicians are not thrilled about the possibility of the protesters staying in the area, but they are technically allowed.

Brandenburg’s Interior Minister Michael Stügben said:

“We believe the threat is not just abstract – as is the case with hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest in Brandenburg – but rather concrete. The first thing is to rule out any danger to the camp residents, but also to the forestry employees, the police, and forest walkers.”

Tesla has operated Gigafactory Berlin since 2020 and only builds the Model Y crossover in the factory. It also has a world-class paint shop that offers two exclusive colors, one of which was recently brought to the U.S. market.

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Tesla moves key auto executive amidst layoffs and departures

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Tesla’s Senior Vice President of Automotive is reportedly moving back into a position in China, after leaving the country to help with the automaker’s global operations last year.

Tesla’s SVP Automotive Tom Zhu was transferred from Gigafactory China to the current position at Giga Austin last year to help with the U.S. plant’s production ramp. Now, multiple local sources have reported that the executive will be returning to China to return to the role of SVP of Greater China.

The news comes as multiple executives have departed from the company amidst a larger restructuring effort, which has included several rounds of layoffs that began in mid-April. It also comes as Tesla prepares to enter the Chinese market with its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software, and as such, many have been speculating that the move could be related to the system’s rollout in the first country outside of North America.

Elon Musk explains Tesla strategy behind layoffs as executives depart

Zhu has been with Tesla since 2018, and he is considered to have played a crucial role in helping Giga Shanghai ramp up production after it was built. After moving to the company’s North American arm, Zhu was tasked with overseeing Sales, Service and Delivery, both in North America and Europe, before moving into the position of SVP of Automotive, in which he oversaw manufacturing and sales globally.

Over the last few weeks, Tesla has launched multiple rounds of layoffs company-wide, including its whole advertising team, its whole Supercharging team, and a number of others in different departments. At the same time, multiple longtime executives have left the company, including SVP Powertrain and Engineering Drew Baglino, VP of Public Policy and Business Development Rohan Patel, VP of Investor Relations Martin Viecha, Senior Director of HR Allie Arebalo, and still others.

Tesla gained tentative approval for FSD in China last week, set to mark the first market outside of North America to get the semi-autonomous driver assistance software. Following the news, Bank of America estimated that adding Tesla’s FSD to the Chinese market could generate as much as $2.3 billion in yearly earnings by 2030.

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