Operational Excellence Engineer

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 Position

To enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization's operations through continuous improvement initiatives delivering significant improvements in product reliability, cost, manufacturability and capacity for robotic surgical instruments and accessories.

The OPEX Engineer is responsible for coaching other employees of ISI MX when working on continuous improvement projects. The OPEX engineer works to be a facilitator for continuous improvement at the sites and systemizes these efforts.

This role emphasizes creating value by streamlining processes, reducing waste, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement

Essential Job Duties

• Gather and analyze business data to identify trends, issues, opportunities and inefficiencies in current business processes and productivity, propose and lead the implementation of continuous improvement strategies/programs for optimization. Using Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies.
• Responsible for scheduling, training, facilitating and successfully running Kaizen Leaders and Continuous improvement programs.
• Provide education, training, coaching and mentoring to employees on the best practices for operational excellence and continuous improvement tools and techniques to ensure the completion of projects that are of interest to ISI Mexicali.
• Lead high impact projects aimed at improving operational business processes. Including setting project goals/benefits, managing timelines, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring successful implementation.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of improvement initiatives and ensure that goals are being met.
• Perform processes for the validation of the completion, metrics and financial results of the continuous improvement projects.
• Ensure that all continuous improvement projects are complying with the current Quality System
• Establish, execute and maintain the Operational Excellence recognition program.
• Facilitate change within the organization by promoting a culture of continuous improvement and ensuring buy-in from all levels of staff.
• Work closely with various departments to align operational excellence initiatives with overall business strategies and objectives

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience in the position or area: at least 2 years’ experience as a Continuous Improvement (OPEX) Engineer.
• Experience with continuous improvement operating systems.
• Languages: English (80%).
• Systems Management: MS Office: PowerPoint (High), Excel (High) Project (Medium), SAP, Minitab, Agile.
• Continuous Improvement events, Project Management knowledge, Production lines balancing, Presentation Skills.
• Leadership, Proactivity, Organization, Planning, Training and Good Communication skills

Required Education and Training

• Professional Career @ Industrial, Manufacturing, Process, Electronic, Mechanical or Production Engineering.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Other Studies: Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma Certification.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in the medical industry.

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Aviso sobre los Controles de Exportación de EE. UU.: De acuerdo con las Regulaciones de Administración de Exportaciones de EE. UU. (15 CFR §743.13(b)), algunos puestos en Intuitive Surgical pueden estar sujetos a controles de exportación de EE. UU. para candidatos que sean nacionales de países actualmente bajo embargo o sanciones.

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