Industrial Engineering

Job Description

Primary Function of Position

The Industrial Engineer 3 (or IE
2) will help on delivering significant improvements in cost, manufacturability, capacity, and serviceability for robotic surgical instruments and accessories. The Industrial Engineer is responsible for leading continuous improvement projects, maintaining the plant layout, time studies, balancing production lines and strives to maintain gross efficiency metrics accuracy. Maintaining standard time for all products ensuring there is enough space availability and capacity installed as well as provide HC quantity needed to meet build plan among other industrial engineering related activities.

Essential Job Duties

• Maintaining labor efficiency metrics accurate and actionable for the Mexicali site
• Leading continuous improvement projects
• Coaching and providing training on continuous improvement tools and methodologies
• DMAIC, root cause analysis, SPC, other statistical techniques, etc
• Perform Time studies to determine standard time and line balancing.
• Keep production time standards updated Maintaining the plant layout to improve productivity and capacity.
• Productivity improvement activities
• 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 capacity installed to meet build plan.
• Elaborate VSM of critical processes
• Lead 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.) creation and update
• Support SIOP cycle and MS initiatives related to capacity.
• Maintain capacity data accurate and updated.
• Plan, supervise, drive improvement, and report production performance including output, yields, root cause failures, efficiencies, and trends Assist in setting and attaining quarterly and annual production goals.
• Learn and enforce company safety policies and practices Equipment, Fixtures and Tools reliability challenge and provide design improvements proposals.