Manager, Mechanical Engineering

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 of Position

Intuitive designs and manufactures highly complex robotic systems for use in minimally invasive surgical applications. Our da Vinci® Surgical Systems design engineering team is committed to utilizing cutting-edge research and technology to develop innovative solutions for our current and next generation surgical robot systems.

We are seeking a candidate with an analytical mind and exceptional leadership and mechanical design skills to lead a team who investigates complex design issues, design and implement solutions while committing to the highest product quality and reliability for our robotic platform.

This role works closely with numerous internal teams to ensure designs meet clinical and user needs and perform reliably and effectively in the field. In this position, you will lead a team of talented engineers in a focused, fast paced, collaborative work environment, while making sound decisions when faced with the time pressures and ambiguous or incomplete information typical of issue troubleshooting and product development.

Essential Job Duties

• Lead a team of mechanical engineers supporting the Continuous Improvement of the da Vinci® Surgical System.

  • Understand and exemplify Intuitive’s culture of first principles thinking and that patients come first, always.
  • Coach, evaluate and give feedback to the team members throughout the year and through annual Performance Review.
  • Work with team members to create long-term development plans.
  • Manage the team’s assignments, priorities and budget annually.
  • Provide guidance through complex situations or conflicting goals.

• Project management

  • Support continued commercialization of the existing product by ensuring the product meets the highest level of quality through helping cross functional teams with issues emerging from the field, the manufacturing floor or the supply chain.
  • Drive continuous improvement of the existing product by gathering and synthetizing information, formulating and prioritizing long-term projects through planning with leadership from New Product Development, Supplier, Manufacturing, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, Production, Service Operations, and other groups. Align with cross functional teams to ensure designs provide value to patients, surgeons, and hospitals.

• Risk management

  • Provide expertise and leadership in maintaining the risk and requirement documentation related to the system.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Excellent judgment in the presence of competing priorities and incomplete data; proven ability to make difficult trade-offs.
• Ability to lead, collaborate, and motivate across functional boundaries with multi-disciplinary teams like clinical, quality, regulatory, manufacturing, etc.
• Good understanding of medical device company and/or robot design.
• Training or commensurate experience in Root Cause Analysis.
• Strong analytical skills as proven by a track record for analyzing and fixing complex problems in products and processes.
• Understand concepts of design controls - FMEAs, design input/output, and requirement traceability.
• Technical proficiency in electro-mechanical products and mechani