Manager Test Engineering

• Ways of Working:
  Set Schedule - This job will be onsite weekly, the percentage of onsite work will be defined by the leader.
• Employee Type:
  Employee
• Min. Salary Region 1: 175700 USD
• Global Job Level (HCM):
  Management 3, Mgr (12)
• Min. Salary Region 2: 149400 USD

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Required Skills and Experience

Technical

Skills:

Ability to perform mechanical engineering calculations needed to support equipment design, including dimensional analysis.

Experience using tools and measuring equipment (Force Gauge, Calipers, Instron,…