Senior Manufacturing Engineer

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’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.

Job Description Primary Function of Position Individuals in this role will establish and develop manufacturing processes for new product development accessories, as well as provide daily support for manufacturing operations and mechanical design improvements for existing accessories. The role requires active participation in new product development teams that create and refine electro-mechanical components, assemblies, process documentation, tooling, manufacturing equipment, and test methods while challenging new product designs to improve efficacy, reliability, manufacturability and cost for robotic surgical instruments and accessories.

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Job Duties Develop manufacturing assembly processes and test methods for new product development accessories.

Design, document, procure, qualify, implement, and improve fixtures, tools and equipment.

Analyze instrument/accessories manufacturing line from a risk perspective (PFMEA) to incorporate and validate critical tests used in manufacturing.

Responsible for the validation and qualification of manufacturing equipment and processes leveraging standard qualification approaches (IQ/OQ/DQ/PQ).Create, maintain and improve pilot “mid to high volume” manufacturing assembly lines, specifying and/or refining BOMs, work flow processes, manufacturing plan and detailed work instructions.

Provide production support through successful and sustained project launch.

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 new products.

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.

Qualifications Required Skills and ExperienceBS / MS degree in Engineering discipline or equivalent work experience.

Minimum 5 years experience as design or manufacturing engineer supporting product with significant mechanical / electromechanical content.

Prior responsibility and experience with process development and process parameter development (DOE, critical parameter management).

Experience with equipment selection, test method development, and working closely with equipment/automation vendors.

Experience with product and process validation & verification, specifically in a medical device or similarly controlled industry.

Experience with catheter manufacturing processes and leak test development a plus.

Experience with high volume automated assembly and…