Senior Manufacturing Engineer (Vision)
Intuitive Surgical
Sunnyvale, CA
Full-time
Engineering
Posted on April 8, 2019
Job: Manufacturing & Operations
Primary Location: United States-California-US-CA-Sunnyvale
Schedule: Full-time
Requisition ID: 191219
Description
Primary Function of Position:
Contribute your technical manufacturing skills to a dynamic development team creating vision systems for minimally invasive robotic surgery. This position will focus on meeting manufacturing operations and product safety, reliability, and performance goals for the several vision systems. Individuals in this role must demonstrate excellent knowledge of lean manufacturing, process development and work with a team to develop state of the art manufacturing lines.
Roles and Responsibilities:
This position has responsibility and authority to:
Qualifications
Skill/Job Requirements:
Primary Location: United States-California-US-CA-Sunnyvale
Schedule: Full-time
Requisition ID: 191219
Description
Company Description:
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Joining Intuitive Surgical means joining a team dedicated to using technology to benefit patients by improving surgical efficacy and decreasing surgical invasiveness, with patient safety as our highest priority.Primary Function of Position:
Contribute your technical manufacturing skills to a dynamic development team creating vision systems for minimally invasive robotic surgery. This position will focus on meeting manufacturing operations and product safety, reliability, and performance goals for the several vision systems. Individuals in this role must demonstrate excellent knowledge of lean manufacturing, process development and work with a team to develop state of the art manufacturing lines.
Roles and Responsibilities:
This position has responsibility and authority to:
• Take responsibility for manufacturing development and process improvements for complex vision system.• Maintain and improve efficient “mid-volume’ manufacturing processes including:
o Specify, document, procure, qualify, implement, and improve fixtures, hand tools and equipment.o Oversee test and calibration systems, trouble shoot line issues.o Workplace and flow process development.o Determine and incorporate critical feature inspection and test checkpoints into process.o Qualify new processes and new suppliers to deliver new and innovative products
• Improve process and procedures to improve quality and yield of new products.• Develop and maintain compliance with the quality system.• Evaluate and select suppliers for mechanical and electrical subsystems. Help resolve supplier quality issues.• Provide design engineers with Design for Manufacturability and Design for Reliability input to ensure consistency/commonality among hardware and standard part selections across product/sub-assembly lines.
Skill/Job Requirements:
• BS in engineering required, MS preferred.
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in product development or manufacturing
• Experience with manufacturing of opto-mechanical, electronic assemblies and optical systems.
• Experience with adhesives and processing plastic materials is desirable
• New product introduction/development experience desirable
• Proven track record of team work and willingness to take initiatives in solving product and manufacturing problems
• Basic knowledge of clean room techniques (Class 1000). Clean manufacturing and tooling
• Experienced in ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 in a medical device manufacturing environment
• Experience with process validation protocols and required documentation for controlled manufacturing such as in medical devices
• Experience with creating Manufacturing Process Instructions, Documentation skill must be excellent. Procedure writing and presentation skills a must. CAD experience preferred (Soidworks)
We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.