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Tesla plans to hold the event online starting from 7 p.m.
Shanghai time (1100 GMT) and will recruit staff for "smart
manufacturing" roles, according to an online post.
Tesla has 224 current openings in China for managers and
engineers under that category, according to a separate post on
its WeChat account, 24 of which were newly posted on June 9.
Among the posted positions are managers and engineers to
supervise the operation of its 6,000-ton die casting machines
known as Giga Press, one of the world's biggest.
Tesla regularly holds such hiring events online in China, with
the latest one held in May for summer interns.
Tesla's China revenue more than doubled in 2021 from a year ago,
contributing to a quarter of the total income for the U.S.
automaker.
The Shanghai plant, which manufactures Model 3 and Model Ys for
domestic sale and export, produced more than half of the cars it
made last year and Tesla is also planning to expand the factory.
However, output at the plant was badly hit by Shanghai's
two-month COVID-19 lockdown that saw it halt work for 22 days
and later struggle to return to full production. Prior to this,
Tesla had planned to ramp up production at the plant to 22,000
cars a week by mid-May.
Musk, the chief executive, said in an email seen by Reuters last
week that he had a "super bad feeling" about the economy and
needed to cut 10% of staff at the electric car maker. The email
was titled "pause all hiring worldwide".
In another email to employees on Friday, Musk said Tesla would
reduce salaried headcount by 10%, as it has become "overstaffed
in many areas" but added that "hourly headcount will increase".
However on Saturday he backed away from the emails, saying total
headcount would increase over the next 12 months and the number
of salaried staff should be little changed.
Musk had not commented specifically on staffing in China.
Musk last month compared U.S. workers to those in China, saying
American workers tended to try to avoid going to work whereas
Chinese workers would not leave the factories.
"They will be burning the 3 a.m. oil," he said at a conference
of Chinese workers.
(Reporting by Zhang Yan and Brenda Goh; Editing by Stephen
Coates)
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