**Company Description**:
Primary Function of Position:
Manage Quality Operations for Intuitive's manufacturing facility in the Mexicali location.
Primary functional responsibilities include the areas of Preventive Maintenance Calibration (PMC), Product Release (DHR), and Continuous Improvement to ensure adherence to company quality standards.
The Quality Operations Manager will directly support all audit related activities both internal and external for the Mexicali facility.
Additionally, the Quality operations manager will interface directly with I&A team in Sunnyvale for line transfer activities and ongoing process improvement.
This role will work directly with plant leadership to align on goals and objectives.
The Quality Operations Manager will lead continuous improvement activities within the Quality Operations team.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Manage the Quality Operations team (PMC/DHR functions) and the group focused on leading the efforts to develop continuous improvement initiatives.
- Oversees the activities to develop Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement skills along the Mexicali Quality Organization.
- Assure all operations are performed in accordance to procedures
- Perform periodic audits to verify correct and consistent operations
- Determine, maintain Quality Operations CIP/department goals
- Track recurring issues and escalate as needed to achieve root cause corrective action
- Interface on a daily basis with internal customers to provide status of open issues and drive those items to closure.
- Drive cross-functional issue resolution
- Facilitate interdepartmental resource allocation
- Develop, trend, and improve appropriate metrics
- Handle materials in accordance to procedures, and maintain traceability of component materials as to inspection status
- Proactively recognize environmental changes and provide coordinated direction for mitigation
- Drive improvements in safety, production, quality, cost, and delivery
- Allocate resources appropriately to achieve departmental objectives
- Perform periodic capacity analysis in order to support production growth
- Develop leadership personnel within the department in order to support growth
- Write and conduct formal annual performance reviews for staff
- Develop and manage departmental budget
- Drive our Culture Strategy by fostering our mission, founding principles, individual and leadership expectations.
**Qualifications**:
Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:
- BS degree and 6 years of management experience.
- Outstanding management and communication skills.
- Must be familiar with all standard inspection tools, gauges, optical comparators and various types of coordinate measuring machines effectively
- Must be computer literate with experience using; Windows, Excel, Word, Powerpoint
- Good understanding of Inspection (GD&T), Metrology, PMC, and GMP
- Must have a working knowledge of MRB related activities.
- Experience in Medical Device industry and knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices
- Working knowledge of quality tools: measurement repeatability systems, process control tools (Statistical Process Control)
- Excellent creative problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Working knowledge of Lean / Six Sigma
- Project Management
**Additional Information**:
Intuitive es un empleador que brinda igualdad de oportunidades de empleo.
Proporcionamos igualdad de oportunidades de empleo a todos los solicitantes y empleados cualificados, y prohibimos cualquier tipo de discriminación y acoso, independientemente de su raza, sexo, condición de embarazo, orientación sexual, identidad de género, origen nacional, color, edad, religión, condición de veterano protegido o de discapacidad, información genética o cualquier otra condición protegida por las leyes federales, estatales o locales aplicables.
**Shift **:Day
**Travel **:None
Travel Requirements:None Shift:Day