Industrial Engineer

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

Support delivery of improvements in cost, manufacturability, capacity, and serviceability for robotic surgical instruments and accessories.

Support on continuous improvement projects for the production process, time studies, production lines balance and striving to maintain gross efficiency metrics accuracy. Support in maintaining standard time for all products verifying there is enough space available, and capacity installed as well as providing HC quantity needed to meet the build-plan among other industrial engineering-related activities. Ensure Gross Efficiency goals are met and propose/execute projects for GE.

Support in maintaining the plant layout accuracy, compliance with current needs/requirements and readiness for growth as well as proposing changes as required (i.e. office space, parking space, enough cafeteria space, time clocks, etc.).

Essential Job Duties

• Maintaining labor efficiency metrics accurate and actionable for the Mexicali site.
• Lead continuous improvement projects.
• Use of continuous improvement tools and methodologies such as DMAIC, root cause analysis, SPC, and statistical techniques for the implementation of continuous improvement projects.
• Perform Time studies to determine standard time and line balancing.
• Keep production time standards updated.
• Maintaining the plant layout to improve productivity and capacity.
• Support productivity improvement activities.
• Support waste reduction activities.
• Train, develop, and motivate production personnel to follow procedures, meet high quality standards, production schedules, and productivity requirements.
• Ensure there is enough space availability for future growth.
• Ensure there is enough capacity installed to meet build plan.
• Ensure there are enough desks / space capacity to meet facilitators’ working place requirements.
• Support VSM of critical processes.
• Support initiatives focused on yield improvement.
• Update documents as needed to maintain compliance with the quality system.
• Update of manufacturing methods in Work instructions (MPI). 
• Operating procedures (SOP's, DOP's, etc.) updates.
• Support SIOP cycle and MS initiatives related to capacity & head count calculation for one of the plant’s workstreams.
• Maintain capacity data accurate and updated.
• Plan, supervise, drive improvement, and report production performance including output, yields, root cause failures, efficiencies, and trends for one of the plant’s workstreams.
• Assist in setting and attaining quarterly and annual production goals.
• Learn and enforce company safety policies and practices.
• Adherence to 5S Methodology.
• Performs other duties as required.
• Travel: Position may require 5-10% travel, primarily within U.S.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience 

• Good communication skills, both written and verbal in English and Spanish.
• Good English Level (+ 75 %).
• Good presentation skills.
• Proactive, organized.
• Self-directed engineer with moderate supervision.
• Demonstrate Process Engineering abilities.
• Demonstrate root cause analysis abilities.
• Schedule oriented and demonstrate results based on such schedules (Plans and Gantt charts).
• Good at MS software
• Basic Excel capabilities
• Basic knowledge of statistics and six sigma methodology.
• Good English Level (+ 75 %).
• Good presentation skills.
• Basic Excel capabilities

Required Education and Training 

• BS degree in Industrial/Mechanical/Electrical/Electronic Engineering or equivalent.

Preferred Skills and Experience 

• Basic manufacturing or process engineering experience with Mid/high volume manufacturing (preferred).
• Prior experience working in an FDA/ISO regulated environment (preferred).

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.