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Industrial Engineer 3

Industrial Engineer 3

CompanyIntuitive Surgical
LocationSunnyvale, CA, USA
Salary$Not Provided – $Not Provided
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelMid Level, Senior

Requirements

  • Minimum Bachelor’s Degree required in Industrial Engineering or related discipline, and at least 4 years minimum of applicable, progressive work experience.
  • Exceptional verbal communication and group presentation skills required.
  • Emotionally intelligent, reading the room/others, charismatic, self-assured.
  • Proficient general software and data analysis skills required (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.).
  • General project management skills.
  • Ability to run small to moderately sized change management initiatives.
  • Proven ability to manage many projects concurrently and in a timely fashion.
  • Advocating for Lean Manufacturing programs within the manufacturing operation.
  • Understands implications of change and can work within Quality Systems.
  • Minimal travel required (<10%).

Responsibilities

  • Participate and may drive Industrial Engineering projects and activities. Projects may include value stream mapping, design reviews, new product development and introduction, new line or facility start-up, and facility design.
  • Run structured technical problem solving investigations and utilize data driven insights to provide recommendations and solutions to achieve improvement.
  • Evaluate operations and identify improvement opportunities, utilizing data analysis and metrics to build a business case, and deliver on execution. Monitor operational metrics including labor hours, WIP levels, and productivity, examine data for trends, and collaborate with process owners to improve.
  • Review work cell layout, process flow, material flow, etc. Assess best practices. Recommend cost-effective solutions for improving the utilization and efficiency of personnel, equipment and/or physical space. Drive projects that will result in improved costs and/or enhanced quality.
  • Perform duties and train in the areas of time standards, line balancing, simulation modeling, cost estimation, personnel planning, and continuous improvement.
  • Support large building or multi-cell layout changes. May drive layout changes of moderate size with minimal oversight.
  • Upon request, perform strategic analysis and communicate findings effectively to various levels of management. This may include assessing long-range capacity forecasts from analysis to recommendations and justification for facilities, equipment, and/or personnel requirements for new or sustaining product ramp.
  • May propose and/or draft reports or dashboards to support data analysis.
  • May build simple reports or dashboards for analysis and deeper understanding.
  • May maintain existing reports or dashboards as required.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Advanced data analysis skillset (e.g. Tableau, VBA, R, etc.) preferred.
  • Simulation modeling experience (e.g. Simul8, Arena, etc) preferred.
  • Experience working in medical device manufacturing and knowledge of industry regulations preferred.
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification with project experience preferred.
  • New Product Development/Introduction experience preferred.
  • Facility design and construction management experienced preferred.