Intuitive Surgical

Job Description

Primary Function of Position

The New Product Verification team at Intuitive is devoted to assuring safe, reliable, and effective products that exceed patient, surgeon, and hospital expectations. The department plays a vital role in product and process quality, in new product development and production, and in the quality of da Vinci and Ion System product lines, including diagnostic systems, instrumentation, and supporting accessories. Manager, Test Engineering will manage a team of test engineers and engineering technician(s). Working shoulder to shoulder with the team and leading change, the senior manager will be critical to product development deliverables, talent development, and process improvement within New Product Verification.

Essential Job Duties

Team and Cross-functional Leadership

• Manage a team of test engineers and engineering technicians with mechanical, electrical, biomedical and other applied science backgrounds
• Train and develop existing team members on technical and soft skills
• Ensure team members are motivated, engaged and enthusiastic
• Establish group objectives, metrics and individual work goals consistent with overall product development schedules and/or process improvement milestones for the team
• Assign tasks, set priorities, and track progress
• Execute resource management and control for planning, staffing, budgeting, and team cost tracking
• Prioritize and negotiate project and resourcing tradeoffs with project managers, engineering leaders, and lab resources
• Influence cross-functional project teams in the design, development, verification, and validation of new products with complex functionality
• Form and maintain strong partnerships with cross functional partners in parallel organizations
• Provide vision for the test engineering team and foster an environment that encourages creativity and crisp execution.
• Champion best practices for verification

Technical Work Execution

• Support team with generation of test plans, protocols and reports for Design Verification and Life/Reliability tests, working with and through the team of test engineers
• Guide the team with translating complex product requirements to testable acceptance criteria
• Provide technical support for failure analysis and test failures
• Execute bench top design verification or reliability testing as needed
• Identify and develop processes, test methods, and test fixtures that could benefit from new or updated fixture designs to drive operational efficiencies; drive and execute changes
• Guide the team to develop harmonized test methods and on test method validation strategy as required.

Other Responsibilities

• Functional & Technical leadership when collaborating with the cross functional/matrixed teams.
• Effective communication across various levels of the organization at core team meetings, product review board and design reviews.
• Ensures successful, on-time completion of department and core team projects; communicates constraints and recommends preferred mitigation to direct management when successful project completion is at risk.