Industrial Engineer 3
Company | Intuitive Surgical |
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Location | Sunnyvale, CA, USA |
Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | Bachelor’s |
Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
Requirements
- Minimum Bachelor’s Degree required in Industrial Engineering or related discipline
- 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
- 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
- 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