Manager, Supplier Process 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:

Manage a team of Supplier Engineers with a focus on introducing new products into production and sustaining products already in production for the Multiport business unit. The successful candidate will have the ability to run a team, and comprehend and solve complex issues associated with the supplier manufacturing process, quality, and business inter-relationships. This person will develop supplier quality systems and manufacturing processes to sustain suppliers and parts effectively.

The preferred candidate possesses deep metal machining, metal injection molding, plastic injection molding and/or stamping manufacturing knowledge along with skills to select and develop suppliers. Good project management skills are necessary to work on multiple projects with cross-functional teams and suppliers.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Manage a team of supplier engineers in strategic supplier selection, evaluation, development, and improvement with the goal of establishing and maintaining a high-performing, long-term, sustainable production supply chain.

This is a working manager role which requires executing Supplier Engineering deliverables along with the team.

• Develop and implement a robust long-term supplier strategy for the product family.
• Select and evaluate suppliers that fit the supplier strategy and influence critical collaborators to utilize and maximize the use of the Production supply base.
• Ensure suppliers are compliant with the Intuitive quality management system.
• Manage quality and drive the team in mitigating business risks and overcoming related challenges.
• Manage supplier relationships to partner with Intuitive and the supplier effectively.
• Help the team in completing the Production Part Qualification deliverables: pFMEA, Special Process Validations, FAI, and Process Capability Data
• Help transfer of parts and suppliers throughout the product development life cycle
• Manage the planning and implementation of supplier change management projects using the Supplier Change Request process (SCR).
• Develop and use measurement techniques for supplier part quality, capability, cost, capacity, and delivery by creating metrics to establish if an action is required.
• Identify and investigate opportunities for cost reduction and/or quality improvement by collecting opportunities and creating tactics to present opportunities, perform research, and provide data-driven plans to management.
• Drive the supply base to continually improve their business and manufacturing process performance to meet Intuitive’s requirements for supplier excellence using a collection of best practices in project management, Six Sigma, Lean, SPC, and negotiation.
• Review, examine, and close non-conformances, and first article inspections by judging risk analyses and justifications, calculating corrective and preventive actions at suppliers (SCAR), and looking for opportunities with suppliers to eliminate recurrence.
• Led the team in solving complex process issues in the manufacture of components and assemblies.
• Facilitate, influence, and work cross-functionally to improve supplier engineering processes.

Qualifications

Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:

• Proven ability to manage