Manager, Manufacturing Engineering

About the job

Job Description

Primary Function of Position

Lead a team responsible for manufacturing engineering support of production operations, sustaining engineering activities, and manufacturing capability development. Drive process improvements, capacity expansion, and manufacturing support activities while ensuring compliance with medical device quality system requirements.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Leads a small to medium sized group of similarly skilled technical contributors (typically 3+).

• Makes hiring decisions with approval from senior leaders and recommends promotions. Proactively trains team.

• Effectively manages performance and addresses underperformance in a timely way.

• Learning best practices for effective leadership. Demonstrates the commitment to motivate, influence, and develop staff.

• Creates an environment that leads to attraction, retention, and successful careers at Intuitive.

• Effectively communicates goals and objectives.  Monitors and reports progress and identifies risks. Effectively presents to groups and runs meetings.

• Able to effectively communicate changes from above to their organization. Manages change within their own team.

• Communicates on behalf of functional and project teams to leaders and to similar functions across the company.

• Interfaces effectively with Internal teams, suppliers, and some cross functional audiences. Helps team members to effectively communicate.

• Receives high level objectives and manages execution against them. Informs schedule and goals.

• Has demonstrated competence and understanding of what needs to be done to execute.

• Contributes to budget and resource planning.

• Provides accurate estimates of time and resources required to achieve results in area of responsibility.  Incorporates leadership feedback to optimize plans.

• Proposes individual goals and assignments for their team and ensures goals of their teams support the overall project effort.

• Makes sure team stays on track by anticipating and avoiding disruptions and addressing setbacks effectively as they occur.

• Ensures team understands and applies relevant processes (e.g. quality management procedures, business processes) and best practices for their function to achieve objectives.

• Identifies obstacles and proposes solutions. Makes day-to-day decisions to advance the work. Knows when their own knowledge is insufficient and solicits help.