Manager Production

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful— because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you’ll find your purpose here.

Primary function of the position:

Manage, develop and motivate a team with different skill levels to achieve given team performance goals within a sophisticated manufacturing work environment with complex or a variety of production processes. The goals will include quality, efficiency, on-time delivery, First Pass Yield and document accuracy (GDP). Goals are set in each of these areas for each year and overall team performance is measured against them.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Disciplinary and functional management of several people leader
• Hiring, training, and development of the team, performance management with goal setting and feedback
• Interface between production management and functional and disciplinary subordinates in production
• Staff scheduling according to SIOP
• Is able to read and understand dimensions from technical drawings
• Initiates all necessary actions to improve efficiency and reduce quality issues
• Interface with process, design engineering areas
• Is able to create and give target group specific presentations in German and English
• Able to discuss technical topics with national and international stakeholders
• Supports the supervisors on the Tier 1 shop floors in communicating key performance indicators (KPIs), errors and their impacts, as well as company information relevant to employees.
• Represents the Senior Manager on the Tier 3 shop floor when needed
• Actively seeks opportunities for improvement as part of the Continuous Improvement (CI) process and develops solutions for optimization
• Performing other duties as assigned
• Monitoring and compliance with all company, environmental, safety, and production regulations. Reacts immediately in case of deviations

Required Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Master's or technician's degree as mechanic/mechatronics engineer/watchmaker, Bachelor of Engineering or equivalent
• Long-term task-related professional experience
• At least two years of management experience (e.g. as team or project leader, trainer)
• Good communication, documentation, and presentation skills in English
• Good knowledge of MS-Office
• Excellent knowledge of Lean Production. Recognizes problems in the production process, provides suggestions for optimization in cooperation with IE, and plans the implementation
• Good knowledge of SAP in a production environment
• Willingness to work in a clean room and wear gloves and ESD clothing

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

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who are nationals from countries currently on embargo or sanctions status.

Certain information you provide as part of the application will be used for purposes of determining whether Intuitive Surgical will need to (i) obtain an export license from the U.S. Government on your behalf (note: the government’s licensing process can take 3 to 6+ months) or (ii) implement a Technology Control Plan (“TCP”) (note: typically adds 2 weeks to the hiring process).  

For any Intuitive role subject to export controls, final offers are contingent upon obtaining an approved export license and/or an executed TCP prior to the prospective employee’s
start date, which may or may not be flexible, and within a timeframe that does not unreasonably impede the hiring need. If applicable, candidates will be notified and instructed on any requirements for these purposes.