Primary Function of Position:
This person leads and functionally manages the Quality Engineering group. You will interface with leaders including VPs and Directors throughout the design, operations, regulatory, IT, marketing and service areas of Intuitive Surgical. Quality Engineering is primarily responsible for measuring quality and helping the company apply those data quickly, intelligently and consistently. Quality Engineering is broadly responsible for or a stake-holder in Product Quality; Data Quality; Process Quality; Corrective Action Preventive Action (CAPA); Lessons Learned; Solutions to challenging quality problems; Design for Quality in new product; Organizational input to our Quality Review Board; Organization of Enterprise data for quality; Functional specification of Quality enterprise software.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Quality Engineering is primarily responsible for:
Quality Engineering is a stakeholder and shares responsibility for:
Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:
Must Have
Minimum 5+ years’ experience in the quality arena with a complex medical device product, or equivalent quality background
Minimum 3+ years' experience as a manager in the quality arena
Education: Minimum Engineering or Physics with Masters Degree or equivalent experience
Minimum 3+ years medical device company experience within engineering or quality (preferably) manufacturing operations, CAPA systems, and risk-based approaches to quality
Preferred
Prior experiences in optical/vision components/subassemblies (i.e. endoscopes and vision systems) and the associated capital equipment are preferred.
Impeccable integrity
Proven ability to drive and motivate across functional teams
Engineering or Engineering Management background; proven electromechanical underpinnings preferred
Ability to communicate easily with stakeholders and develop compelling vision for the QE group, and find win-win agreements with Engineering. Understand ISI’s culture of fast innovation and iterative improvement.
Exceptional 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, matched with real-world experience (Lean, Six-Sigma, Deming, Toyota, etc.)
Proficiency across the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software
Excellent judgment in the presence of contending priorities and incomplete data; proven ability to make difficult trade-offs
A passion for finishing the vital thing, efficiently and well; attention to the right details
A desire to make work fun
Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.
Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.
Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside, or plan to reside, in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, or Tennessee.
We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target salary ranges are listed.