About the job
Join our dynamic manufacturing engineering team at Intuitive Surgical, where your mechanical engineering design and analysis expertise will play a crucial role in creating cutting-edge equipment used for testing, measuring, and ensuring the quality of our innovative instruments for minimally invasive robotic surgery. Your project management skills will be invaluable as you collaborate with our software engineering team to enhance electro-mechanical components, assemblies, process documentation, tooling, and testing methods, driving improvements in efficacy, reliability, manufacturability, and cost.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and optimize high-volume manufacturing assembly lines, refining BOMs, workflow processes, and detailed work instructions.
- Design, document, procure, qualify, implement, and enhance fixtures, tools, and equipment that include both mechanical and electronic components, as well as control algorithms and programming.
- Analyze equipment performance and trends, addressing root causes of issues to guarantee equipment accuracy, reliability, repeatability, and reproducibility.
- Modify equipment drawings and implement updates for large-scale production lines across various plants.
- Conduct risk analysis (PFMEA) on the instrument-manufacturing line, validating critical tests utilized in manufacturing.
- Oversee the validation and qualification of manufacturing processes and equipment, employing standard qualification methodologies (IQ/OQ/DQ/PQ).
- Support production lines by resolving day-to-day engineering challenges related to core instruments, including emergency repairs.
- Identify and execute continuous improvement initiatives focused on first pass yield, cycle time reduction, product reliability, capacity enhancement, and cost reduction.
- Provide DFx (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly) insights to improve the manufacturability of core instruments.
- Ensure compliance with medical device quality systems, including the closure of corrective actions and implementation of ECOs.
- Conduct failure analysis for production discrepancies and field returns, offering technical support as necessary.
- Willingness to travel periodically to suppliers or our Intuitive Mexicali plant.
- Exhibit leadership through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and training others.
- Proactively seek and implement improved technologies for production processes.
- Enhance documentation related to equipment installation, repair, and maintenance.

