Warehouse Manager

Company Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

Primary Function:

Provide tactical and strategic oversight to the manufacturing plant materials warehouse function in support of established safety, quality, service level, financial and efficiency goals. The position will develop operational processes and goals as well as measure performance for work activities that include receiving, put away, kitting, Kanban, finished product packing, shipping and inventory control.  Additionally, this position will be responsible for supporting the business with material storage, controls, capacity and capability planning as necessary to scale with growth of business.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Supervises a team of individual contributors with functional responsibility for performing ongoing receiving, put-away, picking, kitting, replenishment route running, inventory control and/or packing duties.
• Schedules discrete work activities and assignments, efficiently allocates available resources for shift coverage and coordinates operating coverage plans with other departments.
• People management skills, including the ability to inspire, lead and motivate a team of people, delegate work and explain ideas.
• Hire, train, develop, and motivate warehouse personnel to follow procedures, meet high quality standards, production schedules, operations dept goals, and productivity requirements.
• Anticipates opportunities for development of self and staff.  Develops talent development plans in conjunction with Human Resources and other functional groups as needed.  
• Develop and maintains key operational performance metrics, which are utilized to hold employees accountable for all day-to-day activities. Enhance the 9 block and succession plan. Establish goals and career expectations with TAP and IDP Writes and deliver annual performance reviews. 
• Develops and maintains all policies and procedures that are specific to plant warehousing.  Ensures such policies and procedures as designated for warehousing are followed safely, accurately, and efficiently.
• Develop continuous improvement projects to improve ability to scale to support sustained business growth.
• Ensures material storage practices and related equipment is in keeping with local, state, and OSHA regulations.
• Works and communicates directly with Finance and functional management to develop and meet operational budgets for headcount, depreciation and cost center spending.
• Resolves bottlenecks and other operational problems that prevent a timely and efficient handling of inbound and/or outbound orders (e.g. purchase order receipts and fulfillment of interplant stock transport orders).
• Conducts analysis as required to investigate and determine root cause of compliance, quality or other performance failures and implements corrective actions as warranted.
• Support internal and external audits, cycle count program in coordination with Finance, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Production Planning functions.
• Manage and effectively executes exception activities as required by warehouse function (e.g. processing of urgent material receipts, inventory purges, rapid replenishment of short materials to manufacturing work center(s) etc.).
• Establish a culture that promotes transparency, positivity, and high levels of engagement to drive team and business goals.