NPI Manufacturing Engineer

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: Contribute your technical manufacturing, design skills to a dynamic development team creating precision endoscopic instruments for minimally invasive robotic surgery. This position will focus on developing, validating and implementing processes in order to meet manufacturing operations and product safety, reliability, and performance goals for the endoscope product line. The NPI manufacturing engineer effectively employs business processes to implement changes. Individuals in this role will identify and develop process improvements for existing products, develop and support the implementation design improvements with product engineering develop processes for future products and long term quality and efficiency improvements. Individuals in this role must demonstrate strong hands‑on capabilities and a wide‑spread technical understanding and employ their specialized knowledge.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Develop, scale, maintain and improve efficient “mid to high volume” manufacturing assembly processes including:
  • Identify, evaluate and introduce new process innovations into the manufacturing line. Specify, document, qualify and implement manufacturing fixtures and equipment.
  • Define and execute tests (like DOE’s, Validation) to verify processes are stable and capable to provide consistent and reliable results.
  • Support design engineering to define critical design features with respect to the applicable assembly technology and optimal manufacturability.
  • Determine and incorporate critical feature inspection and test checkpoints into process.
  • Develop and validate robust assembly and manufacturing processes from first prototype until transfer to serial production.
• Identify and leverage potential improvements with respect to yield, cycle time reduction, product reliability, and cost reduction.
• Support changes with appropriate measurement series to verify effectiveness and quality.
• Perform troubleshooting for events of non‑conformances in the manufacturing lines, perform root cause analysis with the cross‑functional team, introduce short‑term preventive and long‑term corrective actions in collaboration with operations, industrial engineering and design engineering.
• Compliance with the current QMS, DOPs and SOPs and the safety regulations.

Qualifications

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:

• BE/BS required, ME/MS preferred; Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronic engineering, Process Engineering, Electrical engineering, Microsystems Engineering or equivalent or a recognised technical training occupation under the Vocational Training Act (BBiG) with 5+ professional work experience as NPI – or Manufacturing engineer, Experience in medical device development and manufacturing environment preferred.
• Minimum 2 years process development or manufacturing engineering experience with Mid/high volume surgical products preferred.
• Knowledge of imaging optics and related manufacturing processes preferred.
• Enthusiastic to work at the pulse of the technological development in medical robotic surgery.
• Great attitude, eager, willing/able to take initiative and responsibility, works well with others in team environment.
• Practical approach for manufacturing processes, capability to work hands‑on.
• Strong work ethic and a demonstrated desire to learn complemented with strong people skills.
• Strong process‑oriented thinking.
• Builds important internal/external relationships through advanced communication skills; knows how to influence and negotiate effectively through communications.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills in German and English.
• Must be computer literate with experience using Windows, Office and SAP preferred.
• Capability to express easy and understandable the assembly processes adapted to the needs of the assemblers and supervisors.
• Knowledge in statistical analysis for process capability, validation, design of experiment.
• Experience in ISO9001/13485, or medical device manufacturing environment preferred.
• New product introduction/development experience desirable.
• Willingness to travel international (up to approx. 10% per year).
• Willingness to learn new SW tools, e.g. SAP, Polarion, JIRA.

Additional Information

Wir schätzen jede Person in ihrer Individualität – unabhängig von Geschlecht, ethnischer oder sozialer Herkunft, Religion, besonderen Bedürfnissen, Alter oder sexueller Identität. Diskriminierung hat bei uns keinen Platz.

Export Control Statement

• In Übereinstimmung mit den U.S. Export Administration Regulations (15 CFR 743.13(b)) können einige Positionen bei Intuitive Surgical US‑Exportkontrollen für potenzielle Mitarbeiter unterliegen, die Staatsangehörige von Ländern sind, die derzeit einen Embargo‑ oder Sanktionsstatus haben.
• Bestimmte Informationen, die Sie im Rahmen der Bewerbung angeben, werden verwendet, um festzustellen, ob Intuitive Surgical (i) in Ihrem Namen eine Exportlizenz von der US‑Regierung einholen muss (Hinweis: Das Lizenzierungsverfahren der Regierung kann 3 bis 6 + Monate dauern) oder (ii) einen Technologiekontrollplan (\“TCP\“) implementieren muss (Hinweis: verlängert den Einstellungsprozess in der Regel um 2 Wochen).
• Für jede intuitive Rolle, die Exportkontrollen unterliegt, hängen die endgültigen Angebote vom Erhalt einer genehmigten Exportlizenz und/oder eines ausgeführten TCP vor dem Startdatum des potenziellen Mitarbeiters ab, was flexibel sein kann oder auch nicht, und innerhalb eines Zeitrahmens, der den Einstellungsbedarf nicht unangemessen behindert. Gegebenenfalls werden die Kandidaten über die diesbezüglichen Anforderungen informiert und angewiesen.

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Location

Burbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany