Sr Production Manager

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.

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 Position:

The Senior Production Manager is responsible of managing production activities of a business unit to deliver products that meet quality specifications, achieve or exceed service level and cost targets while ensuring employees safety, complying with applicable regulations and company policies.

Under indirect supervision works with the Director of Manufacturing to stablish short to midterm strategies to assure employee engagement, culture deployment, talent management, cost reduction – cost management, and continues improvement processes.

This role required collaboration with all the departments at the site and at corporate offices to ensure alignment and flawless plan execution. The Senior Production Manager needs to participate, support, and sometimes lead the introduction of new process, new products and new technical platforms targeted for his areas of influence.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Department Goals Deployment (i.e. Hoshin Kanri (HK) X3/X4) aligned to Site Overall Goals & Objectives (X2), measure department metrics (KPIs) to monitor performance and coordinates actions to ensure improvements.
• Review production plan and coordinate manufacturing resources to ensure timely delivery of products while be sure to comply with Quality System requirements.
• Interacts and collaborates with other departments to solve any restriction that may stop or slow down production, including material, personnel, equipment, and process issues.
• Responsible for department budget planning (HC, Suppliers, equipment purchases) and expense management to meet or exceed financial targets.
• Identify and coordinate cost reduction projects including labor productivity, material usage, defect reduction, space and inventory optimization using Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma tools.
• Foster implementation of preventive and corrective actions that may result from production non-conformances, audit observations, CAPA and others (VRs, PLs, NCRs, DNs, FE, EEs).
• Ensure to comply with ISO and Environment, Health and Safety requirements, as well as all applicable company procedures and policies.
• Provide timely and effective support for new products introduction and existent process transfers to the department.
• Effective management of employee development plans (OPT & TAPs).
• Constantly review of direct reports training curricula in ISU.
• Foster performance and teamwork culture as well as rewards and recognition.
• Partnership with Human Resource department to address personal related activities
• Accountable for communicating to upper management business related issues per escalation process
• Responsible for employees to follow all Company guidelines related to Health, Safety and Environmental practices. Ensure all the resources required to do so are available and in good condition
• Responsible that employees comply with Federal, State, local and Company regulations, policies as well as procedures
• Perform other duties assigned as needed
• Mentor and develop team members through tactical problem solving, define clear performance objectives, and translate challenges into growth opportunities to drive team engagement to meet department and organizational goals
• Responsible for attracting and retain talent
• Complete Performance and feedback process (C.I.P and MERIT) per Company guidelines to direct reports
• Drive our Culture Strategy by fostering our mission, founding principles, individual and leadership expectations.

Qualifications

Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:

Education/ Experience:

• BS in Engineering or Business Administration
• Master’s degree is preferred
• Medical Devices experience is mandatory
• Green Belt / Black Belt Certified in Lean-Sigma is preferred
• 10+ years of experience in medical industry (Production, Engineering, Planning, Quality) preferable.
• 5+ years of Production Manager / Superintendent or personal management (Coaching and Talent Development)
• 3+ years of experience with Continuous Improvement Manufacturing Systems (Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, 5S, etc.), Project Management, Product Transfer / NPI
• Experience with ERP and planning systems (SAP, Agile, o9) preferred.

Skill/ Job Requirements:

• Excellent oral and written skills in English and Spanish with the ability to do effective presentations for different organizational levels.
• Knowledge of the Quality System requirements such as ISO-13485 and MDSAP
• Knowledge of Operations Management, including resources and capacity planning as well as project management.
• Ability to identify opportunities for improvement through Continuous Improvement methodologies (Lean Sigma, Root Cause problem solving techniques)
• Knowledge of Financial concepts applied to Manufacture, including budget preparation and spending management.
• Excellent leadership, collaboration, and teamwork skills.
• Ability to manage complexity and translated to actions.

Additional Information

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.