Primary Function of Position:
Responsible for ensuring suppliers meet ISI requirements for quality, service, delivery, and cost. 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. Executes detailed projects with suppliers to implement changes and improvements affecting quality, cost, capacity, risk, and sub-supplier management.
This role will focus on manufacturing of electronics including printed circuit boards (PCBs), printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs), electronic components, sub-assemblies, and fully finished electronic systems for some of Intuitive’s newest products. The ideal candidate has experience bringing electronic devices to market, preferably medical devices; has worked directly with electronics manufacturing service (EMS) suppliers and component suppliers; and has demonstrated knowledge in a variety of electronics manufacturing technologies such as surface mount technology (SMT), automatic optical inspection (AOI), in-circuit test (ICT), functional testing (FUT), cable assemblies, etc.; as well as electronic system and PCBA design experience.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Complete project/ part qualification deliverables including Supplier pFMEA, Process Validations (IQ/OQ/PQ), Inspection Reports, Gage R&R, and Process Capability Analysis
- Work with suppliers to execute cost reductions, capacity improvements, and risk mitigation.
- Select the right process and supplier for the part, considering long-term fit and total cost of ownership.
- Work with product development and suppliers to complete DFx activities, critically reviewing and improving technical drawings, document packages, and specifications.
- Work with product development, test engineering, and supplier to design, develop, qualify, and implement functional test processes at the supplier.
- Manage supplier changes including manufacturing process changes, production optimization, facility changes, new equipment qualification, and new line validations.
- Drive changes to ISI requirements as necessary by initiating and managing changes to specifications and drawings through the engineering change order process.
- Own and drive to closure supplier variances from symptom through root cause analysis to corrective action, including careful CAPA/SCAR documentation.
- Review, analyze and close customer complaints, manufacturing variance requests, and first article inspections by judging risk analyses and justifications.
- Evaluate corrective and preventive actions at suppliers, and look for opportunities with suppliers to eliminate recurrence.
- Effectively prioritize and advance multiple concurrent projects and tasks
- Clearly communicate project status to key stakeholders
- Build, own, and relentlessly pursue a vision for developing suppliers.
- Understand proper level of documentation detail for tracking actions and justification of decisions.
- Generate key metrics for the team and suppliers, and continually drive for timely achievement of those metrics.
- Drive suppliers to continually improve their business and manufacturing process performance to meet Intuitive’s requirements for supplier excellence using a collection of best practices in project management, Six Sigma, Lean, SPC, and negotiation. Lead these efforts without managerial guidance at several suppliers simultaneously.
- Provide effective and timely supply base health information and recommendations to management by creating and delivering data-driven supply-base information to any level of management at ISI with little or no guidance.
- Prepare and deliver supplier communications as required by independently working with suppliers on scorecard creation.
- 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 on 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.
Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:
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