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Phone Screen
Evaluation of your experience on actual factory floors, managing union/non-union labor, and dealing with chaotic supply chains.
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Four to five interviews heavily indexing on geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), automation line design, and crisis management on the floor.
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1The Model Y assembly line has halted because a robotic welding arm is consistently misaligning by 0.5mm. Every minute of downtime costs thousands of dollars. What is your immediate triage plan? (Scrappiness / Crisis)
2Walk me through how you would design an automated quality control station for the battery pack assembly line using off-the-shelf vision sensors. (First Principles)
3Tell me about a time a supplier delivered 10,000 defective parts that you critically needed for production that day. How did you keep the line moving? (Extreme Ownership)
4Explain the concept of 'Takt Time'. How do you fundamentally rebalance a 50-station assembly line if the target Takt Time is suddenly cut in half? (Manufacturing Fundamentals)
5What is the most 'scrappy', unstructured, duct-tape-and-zip-ties engineering solution you've ever put into a temporary production environment to hit a volume goal? (Scrappiness)
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