Mechanical Manufacturing Engineer

Job Description

Contribute your mechanical engineering design and analysis skills to design, develop and deploy equipment to test, measure, and deliver quality instruments and project management skills to a dynamic manufacturing engineering team creating precision instruments for minimally invasive robotic surgery.

The role requires active participation in the mechanical manufacturing engineering organization alongside our software engineering counterparts in order to refine electro‑mechanical components, assemblies, process documentation, tooling and test methods to improve efficacy, reliability, manufacturability and cost for surgical robotic instruments.

• Create, maintain and improve “high-volume” manufacturing assembly lines, specifying and/or refining BOMs, workflow processes, manufacturing plan and detailed work instructions.
• Design, document, procure, qualify, implement, and improve fixtures, tools and equipment which includes hardware (mechanical and electronic components) and software (control algorithms and programming).
• Independently and proactively determines and analyzes data trends for equipment performance to root cause equipment issues to ensure accuracy, reliability, repeatability, and reproducibility of equipment.
• Modifies equipment drawings, orders, and implements to large scale production lines (cross plant, high volume)
• Analyze instrument‑manufacturing line from a risk perspective (PFMEA) to incorporate and validate critical tests used in manufacturing.
• Responsible for (author, execution, and training) the validation and qualification of manufacturing equipment and processes leveraging standard qualification approaches (IQ/OQ/DQ/PQ).
• Provide production line support for day‑to‑day engineering issues on core instrument lines i.e. resolve emergency and unscheduled problems/repairs of equipment.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement projects with respect to first pass yield, cycle time reduction, product reliability, capacity enhancement and cost reduction.
• Provide product and process DFx (Manufacturing, Assembly) input to enhance manufacturability of core instruments.
• Takes responsibility for maintaining compliance with medical device quality system including corrective action closure, discrepant material dispositions and ECO implementation.
• Provides technical support analyzing and/or performing failure analysis for discrepant production components, assemblies and field returns.
• Able to travel periodically to suppliers or Intuitive Mexicali plant
• Demonstrate leadership through knowledge transfer, mentoring, and training of others
• Proactively seeks better and improved technologies for improving production processes
• Improve existing documentation for equipment installation, repair, and upkeep.
• Responsible for review of peer edits to documentation of fixtures, tools, and equipment.
• Conduct SAP transactions relevant to process or equipment operations.