Industrial Engineer 3

Company Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

Primary Function of the Position:

Deliver significant improvements in cost, manufacturability, capacity, and serviceability for robotic surgical instruments and accessories.

The Industrial Engineer is responsible for leading continuous improvement projects, maintaining the plant layout, time studies, balancing production lines and strives to maintain gross efficiency metrics accuracy. Maintaining standard time for all products ensuring there is enough space availability and capacity installed as well as provide HC quantity needed to meet build plan among other industrial engineering related activities.

On the Space Planning portion, the Industrial Engineer is responsible for maintaining the plant layout, assure the availability of parking and workspaces and work with interdisciplinary teams to develop short-, mid- and long-term space strategies.

Essential Job Duties:

• Maintaining labor efficiency metrics accurate and actionable for the Mexicali site.
• Leading continuous improvement projects.
• Using of continuous improvement tools and methodologies, as DMAIC, root cause analysis, SPC, and statistical techniques for the implementation of continuous improvement projects.
• Perform Time studies to determine standard time and line balancing.
• Keep production time standards updated.
• Maintaining the plant layout to improve productivity and capacity.
• Productivity improvement activities.
• Waste reduction activities.
• Train, develop, and motivate production personnel to follow procedures, meet high quality standards, production schedules, and productivity requirements.
• Ensure there is enough space availability for future growth.
• Ensure there is enough capacity installed to meet build plan.
• Ensure there is enough desks / space capacity to meet facilitators’ working place requirements.
• Elaborate VSM of critical processes.
• Lead initiatives focused on yield improvement.
• Update documents as needed to maintain compliance with the quality system.

• Update of manufacturing methods in Work instructions (MPI).
• Operating procedures (SOP's, DOP's, etc.) creation and update.
• Support SIOP cycle and MS initiatives related to capacity & head count calculation.
• Maintain capacity data accurate and updated.
• Plan, supervise, drive improvement, and report production performance including output, yields, root cause failures, efficiencies, and trends.
• Assist in setting and attaining quarterly and annual production goals.
• Learn and enforce company safety policies and practices.
• Equipment, Fixtures and Tools reliability challenge and provide design improvements proposals.

• Performs other duties as required.
• Travel: Position may require 5-10% travel, primarily within U.S.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience:

• Be of high character and energy with regard for detail.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal in English and Spanish. Able to communicate eloquently up, down, and sideways. 
• Demonstrate leadership skills to coordinate and coach other employees in continuous improvement activities.
• Demonstrate to be a self-directed employee with a minimum of supervision.
• Demonstrate Process Engineering ability.
• Demonstrate ability in root cause analysis and continuous improvement.
• Able to read and understand mechanical and electrical drawings.
• Schedule oriented and demonstrate results based on such schedules (Plans / Gantt charts)
• Possess strong communication skills to interact with suppliers and other departments within the company (product development, planning, purchasing, regulatory, quality, etc.)
• Prior responsibility for process, equipment, or product validation/verification.
• Prior experience with automated equipment, complex mechanism manufacturing, or robotics.
• Production Time Standard, calculation
• Experience in Just-In-Time, Demand Flow Technology, and Lean Manufacturing techniques, 5’s

Required Education and Training:

• Demonstrate Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma Green Belt knowledge.
• BS degree in Industrial/Mechanical/Electrical/Electronic Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 3 years, manufacturing, or process engineering experience with Mid/high volume manufacturing.
• High English Level (+ 90 %).

Working Conditions:

• None

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• MS in an engineering discipline.
• Prior experience working in an FDA/ISO regulated environment.
• Experienced in ISO 13485 or medical device manufacturing environment.

Additional Information

Intuitive es un empleador que brinda igualdad de oportunidades de empleo. Proporcionamos igualdad de oportunidades de empleo a todos los solicitantes y empleados cualificados, y prohibimos cualquier tipo de discriminación y acoso, independientemente de su raza, sexo, condición de embarazo, orientación sexual, identidad de género, origen nacional, color, edad, religión, condición de veterano protegido o de discapacidad, información genética o cualquier otra condición protegida por las leyes federales, estatales o locales aplicables.