Sr Manager Manufacturing Engineering

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:

Leader and functional manager of a team of engineers responsible for sustaining production processes, the introduction of new technologies and continuous improvement. This manager will define and execute the strategic plan for engineering and drive timely and high-quality execution of projects through the management and mentoring of direct reports was well as the utilization of personal expertise. Drive continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen technical competencies and collaboration with other teams. Manage, mentor, and develop engineers

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Prepare and lead the execution of the strategic planning of the department.

• Leads and manages the operation of engineering department to ensure goal/objective achievement directly or through subordinate staff.

• Formulates and executes long-term plans for cost/profit control.

• Creates, manages, and controls department budget.

• Manages large projects: Organization, definition, planning, implementation, and control.

• Ensures engineering application programs meet specifications, quality goals, target cost, schedule, and remain within approved budgets.

• Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function. Manage and motivate for higher performance; increase skills levels.

• Perform the evaluation for annual MERIT granting, providing feedback to the staff under your charge.

• Ensure the implementation of life and career plans for identified personnel with high potential.

• Promote leadership development programs, skills and behaviors generated by the corporate and promoted locally.

• Promotes use of new technologies and industry-leading trends to product management activities.

• The position requires ongoing and critical participation with other internal groups such as Operations and QA in developing and rolling out the preferred products and system solution.

• Perform the preparation of quarter operations review (QOR).

• Prepare and represent the engineering department in internal and external audits.

• Coordinate the implementation process for transfer lines and line duplication to the Mexicali site to support demand requirements and profitability.

• Promote the development of continuous improvement programs to generate savings or efficiency improvements.

• Ensure the implementation of Intuitive culture concepts in the department.

• Ensure the establishment of succession plans for critical positions of the Company.

• Consolidate information on the functional status of engineering, production and quality processes.

• Drive our Culture Strategy by fostering our mission, founding principles, individual and leadership expectations.

• Occasional travel is required (up to 20%).

Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:

• BS in an Engineering discipline (Mechanical, Electronics, etc…)

• High level of English speaking, reading, and writing.

• Knowledge of ISO 13485 (preferably)

• Proven ability to lead and motivate across functional boundaries

• 3 to 5 years as a Manager in Engineering.

• Experience in the definition of departmental strategies.

• Experience in the medical industry (preferably)

• Experience in leading the validation and verification process.

• Strong analytic skills as proven by track record for analyzing and fixing complex problems in products and processes

• Proficiency across the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software.

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.

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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