Intuitive · 3 days ago
Quality Engineering Manager - Multiport (Instruments and Accessories)
Sunnyvale, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$156K/yr - $224K/yr
8+ years expIntuitive is a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, committed to advancing minimally invasive care. The Quality Engineering Manager will lead the Quality Engineering group within the Multiport Business Unit, focusing on maintaining product quality, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance product and process quality.
Health CareManufacturingMedical Device
Responsibilities
Provide quality engineering support on product related issues arising from manufacturing using appropriate quality notifications; verify the adequacy of product impact assessments, dispositions, and any escalation decisions
Drive continuous improvement initiatives by conducting trend analysis on reported manufacturing quality notifications and/or post market complaints
Oversee the analysis of product failures and/or non-conformances; establish metrics and drive product and/or process improvement opportunities; drive failure investigations, review engineering assessments, and support projects that address said failures; identify and track metrics of improvement
Work with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to establish strategies, priorities, and goals for complaint reduction, cost of poor quality, trend analysis, process validation, statistical quality, and process control
Provide subject matter expertise with change assessments (product and process), process validations, statistics, risk-based sampling, and measurement system analysis
Partner with manufacturing teams to transfer products and processes into the production environment with high quality and support these products within the production environment
Assess the need for any escalations for identified quality issues and assist the team members in performing escalation assessments and driving necessary corrective and preventive actions, as appropriate
Lead and functionally manage the Quality Engineering group; assesses skills, performs gap assessment, prioritizes team/skill development; leads talent acquisition and budgeting activities
Responsible for departmental and individual goal setting, goal tracking, correcting, and rewarding, as appropriate
Represent quality management at monthly and quarterly review meetings (Quality Data & Operations Review)
Setting data-driven priorities for continuous improvement of Intuitive’s products and processes
Ensuring quality/reliability/safety is built into Intuitive’s product design by partnering with Design Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, and Supplier Quality
Ensuring data quality, process quality for anything that affects Intuitive’s product or patient outcome, including the improvement of SOPs, DOPs, etc
Generating risk assessments for product in the field, including recall assessment (with Regulatory Compliance)
Supporting deep technical failure analysis, root cause analysis, resolution, and prevention for challenging quality issues
Qualification
Required
Good understanding of medical device company manufacturing operations and risk-based approaches to quality
Proven ability to build and manage teams and to project-manage cross-functionally
Strong analytic skills as proven by track record for analyzing and fixing complex problems in products and processes
Training or commensurate experience in the science of quality
Proven ability to lead and motivate across functional boundaries
Proven ability to manage through conflicting requirements and make difficult trade-offs when resources are scarce
A passion for doing the vital thing, efficiently and well
Excellent judgment in the presence of competing priorities and incomplete data
Travel requirement for this position is 10%
Education: BS in Engineering degree or equivalent experience
8 or more year's experience, with 5 years in the quality arena working on a complex medical device product, or equivalent quality background; 1-3 years of experience as a people manager
Preferred
master's degree is preferred
Benefits
Market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity
Company
Intuitive
Intuitive designs and manufactures robotic-assisted surgical systems.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5MKey Investors
St. Cloud Capital
2003-04-30Post Ipo Equity
2000-06-23IPO
1996-01-01Seed· $5M
Leadership Team
Craig Child
Sr. Vice President, Human Resources
Gillian Duncan
Senior Vice President, Professional Education & Program Services - Worldwide
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