Manager Value Engineering - Instruments

• Ways of Working:
  Onsite - This job is fully onsite.
• Employee Type:
  Employee
• Min. Salary Region 1: 176300 USD
• Global Job Level (HCM):
  Management 3, Mgr (12)
• Min. Salary Region 2: 149900 USD

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive
. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care
, our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion
—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare
, you’ll find your purpose here.

Primary Function of Position: Intuitive Surgical designs and manufactures highly complex mechanical systems for use in surgery. These systems include both capital equipment and “consumables” in the form of surgical instruments and accessories. The Value Engineering Manager – Instruments Product Engineering is responsible for leading projects and/or teams of engineers that support instruments in the field. The successful candidate will be a “working manager” who leads projects and a small team while also contributing his or her own development work.

The candidate will lead a team to identify and evaluate new product value engineering opportunities as well as improvement opportunities that address field concerns and work with the team on product volume scaling and cost reduction projects. He or she must excel in a high-energy team environment and be capable of creative problem solving when faced with the time pressures and design constraints typical of sustaining product development.

The successful candidate must have a wide breadth of knowelege and be able to drive multiple projects in parallel as well as be comfortable collaborating and leading across organizational boundaries as they are working independently.

• Lead and/or be part of a team working on a cross-functional design program. These projects may include new product development, CAPAs, minor-, moderate-, to major-design changes, or supplier change requests.
• Maintain visibility of field RMAs and determine design projects that could address field reliability concerns.
• Establish group objectives and individual work goals consistent with continuous improvement and overall product enhancement activities.
  • Assign tasks, set priorities, establish metrics, and track progress.
  • Schedule, organize, and direct the work of engineering staff to support design improvement projects effectively and efficiently
  • Support mechanical engineers in the review, assessment, and maintenance of design requirements, functional specifications and related risk documents.
  • Review mechanical engineering designs in both a formal and informal capacity.
• Coordinate activities of his or her team with those of other groups in the organization.
  • Maintain cross-functional relationship with manufacturing, supplier engineering, product quality, regulatory, etc. to ensure and sustain product viability in the market.
• Manage, coach, and mentor engineers.
  • Assess employee performance and provide coaching to improve performance.
  • Grow and maintain a team of mechanical engineers by recruiting and retaining highly talented and motivated individuals.
• Develop working knowledge of external customer needs/requirements to ensure product designs provide value to patients, surgeons, and hospitals.
  • Interface with functions such as product marketing, clinical engineering, customer service, etc. to ensure product performance needs are met.
  • Communicate effectively with surgeons and customers about the technical design details of the product.
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