Mechanical Design Engineering Manager

Primary Function of Position:

Intuitive Surgical designs and manufactures highly complex mechanical systems for use in surgery. These systems include both capital equipment and consumables in the form of surgical instruments and accessories. The Mechanical Engineering Manager Instruments Product Engineering is responsible for leading a team of engineers that support instruments in the field. The successful candidate will be a working manager who manages a small team while also contributing their own design work.

The candidate will steer a team to identify and evaluate new improvement opportunities that address field concerns and work with suppliers to support product volume scaling and cost reduction projects. They must excel in a highenergy team environment and be capable of creative problem solving when faced with the time pressures and design constraints typical of sustaining product development. The successful candidate must have technical depth in relevant areas and be as comfortable collaborating and leading across organizational boundaries as they are working autonomously.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Drive and/or be the design subject matter expert working on a crossfunctional project team. These projects may include CAPAs minor moderate to majordesign changes or supplier change requests.
• Maintain visibility of field RMAs and establish design projects that could address field reliability concerns.
• Establish group priorities and team member work goals consistent with continuous improvement and overall product enhancement activities.
  • Assign tasks set priorities establish metrics and track progress.
  • Schedule organize and direct the work of engineering staff to support design improvement projects effectively and efficiently
  • Support mechanical engineers in the review assessment and maintenance of design requirements functional specifications and related risk documents.
  • Review mechanical engineering designs in both a formal and informal capacity.
• Coordinate activities of the team with those of other groups in the organization.
  • Maintain crossfunctional relationship with manufacturing supplier engineering product quality regulatory etc. to ensure and sustain product viability in the market.
• Manage coach and mentor mechanical engineers.
  • Assess employee performance and provide coaching to improve performance.
  • Grow and maintain a team of mechanical engineers by recruiting and retaining highly talented and motivated people.
• Develop working knowledge of external customer needs/requirements to ensure product designs provide value to patients surgeons and hospitals.
  • Interface with functions such as product marketing clinical engineering customer service etc. to ensure product performance needs are met.
  • Communicate effectively with surgeons and customers about the technical design details of the product.
• Support updates to technical requirements for designs based on an understanding of user needs.
• Develop and manage relationships with key suppliers.
• Support scaling product quantities in the field with DFM DFA and or cost reduction projects.
• Create highlevel technical presentations to communicate effectively with leadership on project goals status and risks.
• Provide administrative leadership / control for planning staffing budgeting and project/program cost tracking.

Qualifications :

Skills Experience Education & Training:

• Must be a selfless manager who inspires trust and commitment within their team and in the broader organization through integrity passion and professional excellence
• Ability to effectively direct the activities of an engineering team supporting multiple simultaneous development projects
• Excellent verbal communication and presentation skills. Ability to present the work of their team to executive management.
• Ability to interface with customers and potential business partners in a highly professional manner
• Minimum BS (Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field) required MS or PhD preferred.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience taking products from concept to production (medical product experience preferred)
• At least eight (8) years of experience with mechanical design
• Experience leading engineering teams
• Familiarity with all phases of the product development lifecycle including design implementation debug verification qualification and transfer
• Familiarity with the design control process
• Proven ability to apply the basic laws of physics to understand and achieve quick and reliable solutions to engineering problems
• Exceptional mechanical aptitude and visual thinking skills
• Exceptional databased and problemsolving skills such as finite element analysis statistics and experimental designs
• Breadth of knowledge in various manufacturing techniques
• Proven understanding of design for reliability and manufacturability
• Proven ability to work well in a team environment and drive projects.
• Experience managing suppliers and small projects
• Proficiency using CAD to design and document mechanical designs. SolidWorks preferred
• Comfortable with engaged development work.
• Comfortable operating standard machine shop equipment for prototyping (mill lathe etc.).
• Proficient with techniques for rapidly fabricating proofofconcept and functional prototypes.
• Comfortable with standard mechanical and electrical measurement and test equipment.

Additional Information :

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 COVID19. 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.

We provide marketcompetitive 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.

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 COVID19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action 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.

EEO and AA Policy

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 marketcompetitive 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime