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.
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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:
The job holder should have a sense of continuous improvement (CI) and combine this with a pragmatic approach. The responsibility of an Industrial Engineer (Business Analyst Operations) includes collaboration with several interface partners like R&D, Quality, Service, Logistics and Production to implement a lean value stream, a design for manufacturing, a smooth material and information flow in a structured layout.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Collaborate in SAP Projects and represent the site within the corporate strategy
- Identify and drive implementations of projects designed to improve quality and efficiency, reduce cost, increase flexibility and capacity using lean and six sigma principles as appropriate
- Responsible for the site optimization of value stream information flows and adminitrative processes within operations
- Maintain metrics and analyze data to assess performance and implement improvements
- Collaborate with other functional areas to ensure alignment of goals and priorities. Key functional teams to align with include Engineering/Design, Planning, IT, Assembly, Logistics, Service and Quality
- Support in ramp-up activities of new product lines
Qualifications
Required Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- BE/BS in Industrial Engineering or similar education
- at least 2+ year work experience and experience in the medical device industry is desirable or an advance degree without experience
- willingness to work in a clean room and to wear gloves as well as ESD clothing
- experience in the implementation of lean production, especially value stream design
- willingness to faciliate KAIZEN projects and workshops with different groups
- proven experience in the use of SAP (MM, PP/DS or PP, QM)
- high motivation and a proactive work attitude to take the initiative and work efficiently with others in the team
- good analytical, problem solving and organizational skills
- ability to work independently and handle multiple projects at a time
- good intercultural communication skills to build up internal/external relationships
- professional written and verbal communication skills in German an English
Additional Information
Wir schätzen jede Person in ihrer Individualität – unabhängig von Geschlecht, ethnischer oder sozialer Herkunft, Religion, besonderen Bedürfnissen, Alter oder sexueller Identität. Diskriminierung hat bei uns keinen Platz