It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you’ll find your purpose here.

Primary Function of Position:

Achieve along with a functional team, performance goals for Production Area. The goals will include Safety Incidents, Absenteeism, Turnover, PL, DN, NCR, Scrap, Prod Plan, Efficiency, Hour’s accuracy, Down time.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Perform Interviews, Hire, Onboarding (Provide Expectations) and train, reward, recognition and discipline, manage conflicts on direct reports.
• Responsible for discipline enforcement and follow up with low performance Supervisors.
• Ensure completion of All training ISU related for associates under his supervision.
• Train, develop, enforce adherence to the applicable DOPs and SOPs of the EHS System, Quality System, as well as the Manufacturing Guidelines.
• Follow up employees with coaching and provide feedback based in goals and expectations when is required.
• Assign and manage workload to monitor their employee’s development plan.
• Write and conduct formal annual performance reviews & monthly One:One process.
• Drive our Culture Strategy by fostering our mission, founding principles, individual and leadership expectations. Consolidate X survey action plan for own area.
• Own Production Metrics and coordinate actions to ensure KPI Goals (EHS Incidents / Absenteeism/ Turnover/ NCR/ PL/ DN/ LFPY/ Scrap/ Prod Plan/ Efficiency/ Mat Usage) Tier 2
• Generate Production Reports.
• Update and Revise Manufacturing Process Instructions to ensure that MPIs are accurate and complete
• Review, approve ECO to determine impact on manufacturing.
• Support process validations & Final Manufacturing Reviews as required.
• Work closely with corporate engineering on production line transfers or improvements.
• Address line support issues, document, report and escalate any problems or concerns Tier 2
• Work closely with All Support departments to resolve daily production issues.
• Support Layered Audits & CAPA Action Plan as required.
• Ensure adherence to Intuitive Production System Initiatives (Std Work, Tiers, VSM, 6S, CI Program)
• Lead or support various Lean Manufacturing initiatives that involve a Mfg. based team thru Corporate Projects, Project Management, Kaizen, Green Belts or Rapid problem-solving events.
• Review and disposition discrepant material.  Implement corrective actions to prevent recurrences. Implement project to improve Material Usage / reduce Scrap.
• Ensure supervisors complete payroll activities on time.
• Assist Budget Spending process, control budget expense and execution.
• Support purchase requisitions needs.
• Support SIOP process to understand and provide input to ensure future prod plan vs capacity.
• Participate in Area Goal Deployment Process

Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:

• Education and/or Experience:  Bachelor's degree on related fields.
• External Candidate 5 years of Production manager and engineering experience.  Experience in the medical device industry is preferred, specifically in high-volume manufacturing area.
• Knowledge or experience in Manufacturing Process.
• Strong working Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing (Lean Expert -GB- highly recommended).
• Proficient in the use of personal computers to perform daily work.  Familiar with the Microsoft Office suite of programs and MRP systems, SAP and Agile experience preferred.
• Superb communication skills, including written and verbal instruction.
• Bilingual English/Spanish
• Ability to track performance and provide effective feedback.
• The ideal candidate will have a love for a fast-paced and multi-focused work environment.

Intuitive es un empleador que brinda igualdad de oportunidades de empleo. Proporcionamos igualdad de oportunidades de empleo a todos los solicitantes y empleados cualificados, y prohibimos cualquier tipo de discriminación y acoso, independientemente de su raza, sexo, condición de embarazo, orientación sexual, identidad de género, origen nacional, color, edad, religión, condición de veterano protegido o de discapacidad, información genética o cualquier otra condición protegida por las leyes federales, estatales o locales aplicables.

Aviso sobre los Controles de Exportación de EE. UU.: De acuerdo con las Regulaciones de Administración de Exportaciones de EE. UU. (15 CFR §743.13(b)), algunos puestos en Intuitive Surgical pueden estar sujetos a controles de exportación de EE. UU. para candidatos que sean nacionales de países actualmente bajo embargo o sanciones.

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Para cualquier puesto en Intuitive sujeto a controles de exportación, las ofertas finales están condicionadas a la obtención de una licencia de exportación aprobada y/o a la ejecución de un TCP antes de la fecha de inicio del empleado potencial, la cual puede o no ser flexible, y dentro de un plazo que no obstaculice de manera irrazonable la necesidad de contratación. Si aplica, los candidatos serán notificados e instruidos sobre cualquier requisito relacionado con estos fines.

Este puesto puede cubrirse con un nivel de puesto diferente al indicado aquí, según las necesidades del negocio y/o la experiencia, los conocimientos y las habilidades del candidato o la candidata seleccionado. La compensación se basará principalmente en el nivel del puesto en el que se cubra el rol y en las cualificaciones del candidato o la candidata, de conformidad con la legislación aplicable.