Senior Industrial Engineer & Analytics Lead – Services

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive is seeking a Sr. Industrial Engineer & Analyst for Services in Sunnyvale, CA to drive cost, manufacturability, capacity, and serviceability improvements for robotic surgical instruments and accessories.

You will lead continuous improvement initiatives, maintain plant layouts, conduct time studies, balance production lines, and ensure accurate efficiency metrics for services needs. Strong analytics and dashboard skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience leading IE projects for repair & services groups.
• Strong data-driven problem-solving and analytics.
• Ability to design and implement throughput improvements.
• Experience with time standards and capacity planning.
• Ability to develop interactive dashboards consolidating data sources.

Responsibilities

• Lead and participate in Industrial Engineering projects and activities for the Repair & Services Group.
• 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 analysis 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; analyze data for trends, and collaborate with process owners to improve.
• Review and analyze work cell layout, process flow, material flow, etc.
• Recommend cost-effective solutions for improving the utilization and efficiency of personnel, equipment and/or physical space.
• Lead projects that will result in improved costs/efficiency and/or enhanced quality.
• Perform duties and train in the areas of time standards, line balancing, simulation modeling, cost estimation, labor planning, and continuous improvement.
• Support large building or multi-cell layout changes.
• May lead layout changes of moderate size with minimal oversight.
• 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 labor requirements for new or sustaining product ramp.
• Design, develop, and maintain interactive dashboards for key technical and business stakeholders by consolidating multiple data sources.
• Gather and incorporate user feedback to improve the function and experience of dashboards and visualizations.
• Debug databases and dashboards to identify data errors and/or inconsistencies, and work with data engineering team to resolve.
• Author and maintain reference materials owned by the department.
• Participate in the SIOP process to ensure the build plan is achievable and puts the site in the best position for success.
• Support corporate lead continuous improvement efforts in the areas of SIOP, Industrial Engineering, and Analytics.
• Assist in setting and attaining quarterly and annual production goals.
• Develop relationships with IEs throughout the company to share best practices and develop knowledge bases.
• Perform project management duties for cross-functional departmental projects.

Skills

Time studies

Line balancing

Data analysis

Dashboard development

Continuous improvement

Problem solving

Tools

Simulation modeling

Manufacturing analytics

Job description

Intuitive is seeking a Sr. Industrial Engineer & Analyst for Services in Sunnyvale, CA to drive cost, manufacturability, capacity, and serviceability improvements for robotic surgical instruments and accessories.

You will lead continuous improvement initiatives, maintain plant layouts, conduct time studies, balance production lines, and ensure accurate efficiency metrics for services needs. Strong analytics and dashboard skills are essential.