Senior Supplier Engineer Future Forward

1 month ago

Sunnyvale, California, United States Intuitive Surgical Full time
Job Description

Primary Function of Position:

Responsible for ensuring suppliers meet ISI requirements for cost, quality, delivery and service. Drive suppliers to continuously improve business and manufacturing processes. Evaluate and select suppliers. Guide Engineering in choosing suppliers for new products and provide DFM input to new designs. Supports both NPI and on-going production, monitors and works with suppliers to improve supplier performance.

This position will be working with catheter-based products. Experience working with commodities such as extrusions, cabling and laser cutting would be preferred.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Partner with design engineering to understand the design intent and how it translates to component design. Ensure critical design outputs are clearly documented and measurable on the component specification.
  • Influence and drive changes to Intuitive component specifications to ensure a robust component manufacturing process that can scale with volume.
  • Work with design engineering to develop test methods and acceptance criteria for the supplied part or sub-assembly. Document functional test methods used to qualify the part and translate those tests to component level testing.
  • Influence Engineering team to select the component technology that will meet requirements for short- and long-term needs from prototype to production, but also meet business objectives for cost and utilizing preferred suppliers.
  • Create strategies to effectively optimize the supply base to reduce the risk of complex sub-tiers suppliers and long lead times. Recommend 2nd sources treduce risks.
  • Complete Design Transfer and component qualification: pFMEA, Special Process Validations, FAI, correlation and Cpk by leading, training and mentoring suppliers through the process.
  • Determine risk mitigations for high severity parts, sole suppliers or proprietary materials.
  • Develop supplier ramp readiness plans by judging business risk based on forecast, supplier capacity, quality performance, and process capability.
  • Review, analyze and close customer complaints, manufacturing variance requests, and first article inspections by judging risk analyses and justifications, determining corrective and preventive actions at suppliers, looks for opportunities with suppliers to eliminate recurrence.
  • Drive corrective actions for supplier process by driving suppliers to true root cause analysis and corrective and Preventive actions.
  • Develop and influence using metrics for supplier part cost, delivery, quality, capacity and capability by creating metrics to measure real improvement and judge required intervention or change at the supplier or in a commodity.

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