Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Overview

Company Description
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  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 are 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 are ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you will find your purpose here.

This Senior Manufacturing Engineer will build and own the manufacturing line for New Product Introductions (NPI) as well as support improvements, modifications and further deployment of sustaining production lines of catheter products. These products support Intuitive's new robotic platform (Ion) for minimally invasive biopsy in the peripheral lung with an initial goal of improving the early diagnosis of lung cancer.

• Design, document, assemble, qualify and introduces production assembly/test/inspection fixtures and equipment.
• Strong CAD skillset with vision for electro-mechanical fixtures design and implementation.
• Takes ownership of new catheter products during pilot production phase through successful and sustained project launch. This includes driving new product introduction schedules, resolving manufacturability issues, and driving improvements for cost and efficiency.
• Provides product and process DFM (Design for Manufacturing) input to Product Development Engineering to enhance manufacturability and product cost.
• Creates an efficient manufacturing assembly line, specifying and/or refining BOMs, workflow processes and detailed MPI work instructions.
• Uses the Agile ACCS creating and modifying BOM's, Travelers, EFTs and MPIs including ECO/NCO/MCO writing, reviewing and implementation.
• Designs and creates production equipment, fixtures and tests as needed to build the production line either internally or as needed at suppliers.
• Provides training and support to production technicians.
• Responsible for maintaining compliance with medical device quality system requirements including corrective/preventive action closure, discrepant material dispositions (VR's PL's and EE's).
• Provides technical support analyzing and/or performing failure analysis for discrepant production components, assemblies and field returns.
• Leads/participates in continuous improvement initiatives focused on material cost reduction, capacity enhancement, and streamlining of supply chain.
• Must possess strong communication skills to interface with technicians, product development, planning, purchasing, regulatory, inspection, clinical marketing organizations, and suppliers.
• Mentors and sets project tasks for Manufacturing Engineers on their specific project team and on other teams as needed to further company expertise & effectiveness.
• Building the catheter manufacturing line could either be internal to ISI or external supplier.
• Supports, maintains, improves, modifies and further develops the manufacturing line as needed for sustaining production, yield enhancement, and cost reduction.
• Other reasonable assigned duties.

• Minimum 4 yr. degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 8+ years' experience as design or manufacturing engineer supporting product with significant mechanical content. (MSME with 5 years also considered).

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• Demonstrated understanding of catheter manufacturing processes including injection molding, machining, stamping, lamination, braiding, thermal bonding, laser bonding, tipping, extrusion handling, and…