Electronics Supplier Engineer
Company: Intuitive
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: June 23, 2022
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Job Description:
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: Responsible for ensuring suppliers meet ISI requirements
for cost, quality, delivery and service. Drive suppliers to
continuously improve business and manufacturing processes. Evaluate
and select suppliers. Guide Engineering in choosing suppliers for
new products and provide DFM input to new designs. Supports both
NPI and on-going production, monitors and works with suppliers to
improve supplier performance. Roles & Responsibilities: · Select,
evaluate, and qualify suppliers · Part qualification including
pFMEAs, FAIRS, Cpk, and Control Plans · Supplier Corrective Action
Request initiation, execution, and closure · Ensure compliance to
quality management system and regulatory requirements by leading
and mentoring auditors for QMS audits · Lead detailed projects of
transfers of the supply of products and components · Create
strategies to effectively optimize the supply base by leading
efforts to optimize supply networks. · Drive suppliers to
continually improve their business and manufacturing process
performance to meet Intuitive Surgical's requirements for supplier
excellence including ship to stock programs using a collection of
best practices in project management, Six Sigma, Lean, SPC and
negotiation by leading these efforts without managerial guidance at
several suppliers simultaneously. · Develop and influence using
metrics for supplier part cost, delivery, quality, capacity and
capability by creating metrics to measure real improvement and
judge required intervention or change at the supplier or in a
commodity. · Drive corrective actions for supplier process by
driving suppliers to true root cause analysis and corrective and
Preventive actions. · Drive changes to ISI specifications through
influencing and educating resulting in changing specifications and
drawings including driving the ECO process to implementation. ·
Provide effective and timely supply base health information to
management by creating and delivering data-driven supply base
information to any level of management at ISI with little or no
guidance (including QRB) and provide recommendations. · Prepare and
deliver supplier communications as required by independently
working with suppliers on scorecard creation of QBRs, Supplier
Summits, etc. · Facilitate supplier contract development to
execution and maintenance by negotiating contracts as necessary in
collaboration with the contract team and Supply Chain Management. ·
Manage the ASL and Global Commodity Matrix · Work with suppliers
and ISI engineering for the new product introduction to: · Create
product supplier landscapes to determine launch readiness and
report to management · Develop supplier ramp readiness plans by
judging business risk based on forecast, supplier capacity, quality
performance, and process capability. · DFM by engaging suppliers
early in development cycle to feedback manufacturability
improvements in the designs prior to production · Influence and
guide Engineering in choosing suppliers by determining selection
criteria for preferred suppliers and leading the team effort to
evaluate preferred suppliers. · Deliver the following Quality
deliverables: pFMEA, Special Process Validations, FAI, and Cpk by
leading, training and mentoring suppliers through the pFMEA
development, judging process validation requirements and
signing-off on protocols as ISI rep, judging process capability
with supplier as well as judging FAI suitability. · Investigate
opportunities for cost reduction and/or quality improvement by
judging opportunities and creating strategies to seize those
opportunities, completes research and provides data-driven plans to
management. · Review, analyze and close customer complaints,
manufacturing variance requests, and first article inspections by
judging risk analyses and justifications, determining corrective
and preventive actions at suppliers, looks for opportunities with
suppliers to eliminate recurrence. Qualifications Skills,
Experience, Education, & Training: · Minimum BS degree in
Electrical Engineering or equivalent · Minimum 8 years related
experience in Supplier Quality and/or Supplier Development ·
Experience in
Keywords: Intuitive, Sunnyvale , Electronics Supplier Engineer, Engineering , Sunnyvale, California
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