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 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.
Job Description
Primary Function of Position
Achieve given team performance goals for production. The goals will include efficiency, FPY, hours accuracy, scrap, time lost accuracy, DHR accuracy, and first pass cycle count.
Essential Job Duties
- Hire, train, develop, and motivate production personnel to follow procedures, meet high quality standards, production schedules and productivity requirements
- Redline Manufacturing Process Instructions to ensure they remain up to date
- Address line support issues as they arise (including technical-related issues)
- Work closely with Engineering to resolve production issue and actively participate in quality improvement initiatives
- Document and report any variances, problems, issues, or concerns
- Provie production personnel with expectations and performance feedback quarterly
- Plan, supervise, drive improvement, and report production performance including output, yields, root cause failures, efficiencies, and trends
- Assist in setting and attaining quarterly and annual production goals
- Learn and enforce company safety policies and practices
- Lead or support various Lean Manufacturing initiatives that involve a Mfg. based team
- Support sub-assembly or process outsourcing initiatives
- Review/approve ECOs to determine impact on manufacturing
- Review and disposition discrepant material. Implement corrective actions to prevent recurrences
- Evaluate designs for manufacturability (with respect to tooling and assembly methods). Provide suggested change proposals, or tooling concepts during design process phase
