Sr. Supplier Engineer

• Ways of Working:
  Set Schedule - This job will be onsite weekly, the percentage of onsite work will be defined by the leader.
• Employee Type:
  Employee
• Min. Salary Region 1: 160600 USD
• Global Job Level (HCM):
  Professional 4 (11)
• Min. Salary Region 2: 136500 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:

Responsible for ensuring suppliers meet ISI requirements for quality, service, delivery, and cost. Drive suppliers to continuously improve business and manufacturing processes. Evaluate and select suppliers. Guide Engineering in choosing suppliers for new products and providing DFM input to new designs. Supports both NPI and ongoing production, monitors and works with suppliers to improve supplier performance. Executes detailed projects with suppliers to implement changes and improvements affecting quality, cost, capacity, risk, and sub-supplier management.

The ideal Candidate has a track record of supporting new products launch, demonstrated collaboration with Contract Manufacturers, and preferred experience with multiple manufacturing methods, including various metal/plastics machining processes, treatments, and finishing processes. Plastic Injection Molding and Metal Injection Molding are preferred as well. The candidate also has skills in selecting and developing suppliers.

Complete Part Qualification (PPQP) deliverables, including Supplier pFMEA, Process Validations (IQ/OQ/PQ), Inspection Reports, Gage R&R, and Process Capability Analysis

Work with suppliers to execute cost reductions, capacity improvements, and risk mitigation.

Select the right process and supplier for the part, considering long‑term fit and total cost of ownership.

Manage supplier changes, including manufacturing process changes, production optimization, facility changes, new equipment qualification, and new line validations.

Drive changes to ISI requirements as necessary by initiating and managing changes to specifications and drawings through the engineering change order process.

Own and drive to closure supplier variances from symptoms through root cause analysis to corrective action, including careful CAPA documentation.

Effectively prioritize and advance multiple concurrent projects and tasks

Clearly communicate project status to key stakeholders

Build, own, and relentlessly pursue a vision for developing suppliers.

Understand the proper level of documentation detail for tracking of actions and justification of decisions.

Generate key metrics for the team and suppliers and continually drive for the timely achievement of those metrics.

Drive suppliers to continually improve their business and manufacturing process performance to meet Intuitive’s requirements for supplier excellence using a collection of best practices in project management, Six Sigma, Lean, SPC, and negotiation. Lead these efforts without managerial guidance at several suppliers simultaneously.

Implement corrective and preventive actions for the supplier process by driving the supplier’s investigations and root cause analysis.

Work with suppliers and ISI engineering for the new product introduction to:

Create product supplier landscapes to determine launch readiness and report to management.

Develop…