Company Description At 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 Description Primary Function of Position:

As Intuitive's da Vinci Surgical System becomes adopted by an increasing population of hospitals, surgeons and patients, we are building a focused team to drive reliability, quality, and safety to ever-better levels. This focus applies to product in use, product in manufacturing, and product in design. Help us powerfully drive our quality mission in our young and growing company by bringing your hands-on experience in solving tough engineering problems, your fascination with complex electro-mechanical devices, and your passion for the best practices to design, monitor, and improve product and process.

The position will support manufacturing and remanufacturing of systems for the Davinci Multiport business unit.

Roles and Responsibilities: Initial roles and responsibilities for this position will include the following: 40% involvement in supporting sustaining manufacturing operations, 25% improving supplier processes, 20% design controls and 15% quality advocacy (quality improvements).

Manufacturing support: Support manufacturing processes, including failure analysis, documentation review and approval, tooling qualification, and defect containments. Ensure manufacturing activities follow ISI procedures and regulations. Support development and execution of process validation and verification test plans, protocols, and reports. Maintain site level process FMEA and risk management files and update as required. Support production ramp and work cross functionally on issue and support continuous improvement projects. Support investigation and disposition of non-conformances, both internal and supplier related.

Supplier Processed improvement: Working closely with ISI supplier engineering group to enhance the quality of the product and improve the supplier process. Investigate, Analyze the supplier non-conformances (VR) and work with Supplier engineering group and Suppliers to prevent recurrences and improve the processes. 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, SPC and negotiation by leading these efforts without managerial guidance at several suppliers simultaneously. Support part qualification deliverables include: Process FMEA, Process Capability Analysis, FAIR, Process Validations, Inspection Reports, and Gage RandR.

Pro uct development: Support various product and subsystem type design changes (not a full design quality support) Participate in risk management process ensuring that the essential performance aspects are correctly mitigated in the product quality plans. Ensure design changes are established and implemented according to ISI standards and applicable regulations. Recommend design processes and methods to meet quality goals (DFX, etc.).

Quality Advocacy: Develop and apply corporate-level quality metrics. Ensure the quality system requirements are effectively established and maintained. Drive and manage quality initiatives in one or more areas of product and processes quality. Evaluates deviations and non-conformances and supports resolution of quality issues Supports process validation and verification. Perform risk analysis and establishes quality disposition for variance requests and non-conformances Represents the department cross-functionally in meetings that may include senior and external personnel Releases process and document changes through engineering change orders and deviations using ISI change control process Escalates to direct management all quality issues that could impact patient safety or surgical efficacy Ensures successful, on-time completion of department projects, communicates constraints to direct management when successful project completion is at risk Performs other duties as assigned by the management. Qualifications Skills, Experience, Education, and Training:

In order to adequately perform the responsibilities of this position the team member must possess: Minimum Education: Bachelor degree...

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