Electronics Supplier Engineer
Company: Intuitive
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: June 23, 2022
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Job Description:
Company DescriptionAt 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 DescriptionPrimary 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.QualificationsSkills, 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, Other , Sunnyvale, California
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