Manufacturing Engineer - Sunnyvale, United States - Intuitive Surgical

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    Job Description

    Primary Function of Position

    Contribute your technical manufacturing and equipment design skills to a dynamic team creating endoscopes, capital equipment, accessories, and precision instruments for minimally invasive robotic-assisted surgery.

    The role requires active participation in new product development teams, support the development/modification of software for test equipment to ensure comprehensive test coverage. Involves providing support for manufacturing lines, developing manufacturing equipment, and refining electro-mechanical components, assemblies, process documentation, tooling, and test methods. Additionally, it involves challenging product designs to improve efficacy, reliability, manufacturability, and cost for robotic surgical equipment.

    Essential Job Duties

    • Create, maintain, and improve "low to high-volume" manufacturing lines, specifying and/or refining BOMs, workflow processes, manufacturing plan and detailed work instructions.
    • Apply engineering concepts to the optimization of equipment and procedures to achieve better maintainability, reliability, capacity, and availability of equipment.
    • Independently and proactively determines and analyzes trends for equipment performance
    • Diagnose equipment breakdowns to define and implement improvement strategies.
    • Resolve emergency and unscheduled problems/repairs of equipment.
    • Design, document, procure, qualify, implement, and improve fixtures, tools, or equipment.
    • Responsible for creation and upkeep of equipment qualification approaches (IQ/OQ/PQ/DQ) including input from risk documentation and pFMEA
    • Orchestrates approach to determining root cause and problem solving on complex issues
    • Conduct testing of software releases before deploying on manufacturing line
    • Execute and mentor others in manufacturing process validations, process FMEAs and other elements associated with production Master Validation Plans
    • Maintain compliance with medical device quality system including corrective action closure and Change Order implementation
    • Conduct SAP transactions relevant to process or equipment operations.
    • Provide technician training and oversee specified manufacturing stations to ensure quality.
    • Contribute to the establishment of group and individual objectives consistent with overall product development goals, including planning, priority setting, establishment of metrics, and effectively communicating progress
    • Improve existing documentation for equipment installation, repair, and upkeep.