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 the Position

Under direct supervision of the Production supervisor and having the support of the production leader, this position manufactures, evaluates and verifies that the assembly and packaging of instruments or accessories are carried out according to production orders and work instructions (MPI, IVI) achieving quality and manufacturing standards (hour per hour); to comply with the daily production plan.

Essential Job Duties 

• Use Personal Protection Equipment

•Communicate unsafe acts or conditions to supervisor

•Participate in the Safety and Hygiene trainings that the company establishes

•Clean the workstation (5's) at the beginning and end of the shift

•Perform the callisthenic exercises at the beginning and during the shift at each scheduled break

•Participate in the rotation program of workstations to avoid ergonomic problems

•When assigned, Stock the gowning area of the Clean Environment Room (CER) with copings, cover mouths, beard covers, shoe covers and nitrile gloves

•Take the assigned trainings in your ISU Profile (Intuitive Surgical University), minimum 3 days before expiration

•Enter user signature in SAP system at the beginning and the end of the shift or at each workstation change and take care to introduce the shift and line correctly (applies for overtime too) 

•Ensure that 95% of the time that is recorded in the payroll system is register in SAP in productive order when the technician is producing or in NON-productive order when the technicians is engaged in any activity other than assembly

•Carry out the assembly, test, or packaging operations of the assigned workstation

•Use Devices, accessories, tools, and equipment according to the process; verifying that they are in good conditions of use, and reporting to supervisor those that are in poor conditions for their repair

•Perform visual inspection of assemblies received and fabricated, in addition to the inspection of raw material of the workstation

•Separate damaged raw material by placing it in the corresponding container

•Verify that the work instructions (MPI, IVI) are in the workstation and if the review is according to the work order

•Report Change Over Technician or Production Leader missing raw materials in containers (bins)

•Comply with the standard (Hour per Hour) of the assigned assembly

•Perform raw material counting at your workstation at the beginning of the shift and at each change of production order

•Support other workstations to avoid the accumulation of materials (One Piece Flow)

•Separate potentially defective assemblies, PL's (Process Log)

•Comply with the Policies, Regulations and Code of Conduct of the Organization

•Develop performance self-assessment for the MERIT process

•Be responsible for submitting your permits/incidents in the payroll platform at least 1 day before the delivery of the pre-payroll.

•The technician should always communicate with the leader and/or supervisor when he/she needs to be off the production line for any reason.

Required Skills and Experience 

•              Software: Microsoft Office, Computer skills

•              Experience in the position or area: Experience in the Manufacturing industry, Experience in the medical industry (desirable)

•              Knowledge / Skills:             

Manual skill for assembling small parts

Visual acuity (worked in processes with visual inspection)

Teamwork (to work manufacturing flow cells)

Follow-up instructions

Experience working with EEP

•              Other:  Willing to repetitive work and work under fast-paced work environment

Availability to work on assigned shift.

Required Education and Training 

• High School / Technical Career

Preferred Skills and Experience 

• Having worked in the medical industry (desirable) – 6 months

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.

Cierta información que usted proporcione como parte de la solicitud será utilizada para determinar si Intuitive Surgical necesitará (i) obtener una licencia de exportación del gobierno de EE. UU. en su nombre (nota: el proceso de obtención de la licencia puede tardar entre 3 y más de 6 meses) o (ii) implementar un Plan de Control de Tecnología (“TCP”, por sus siglas en inglés) (nota: normalmente este paso agrega 2 semanas al proceso de contratación).
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.