.Job DescriptionPrimary Function of the Position:Responsible for ensuring suppliers meet Intuitive's requirements for quality, service, delivery, and cost. Drive suppliers to continuously improve business and manufacturing processes. Guides Sourcing and 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. Executes detailed projects with internal teams and suppliers to implement improvements affecting quality, cost, capacity, risk, and sub-supplier management.The ideal Candidate is self-driven, possesses broad and deep direct metal injection molding, metal machining manufacturing and/or plastic injection molding experience along with skills to select and develop suppliers.Essential Job Duties:Complete project/ part qualification deliverables including Supplier pFMEA, Process Validations (IQ/OQ/PQ), Inspection Reports, Gage R&R, and Process Capability.Work with suppliers to execute cost reductions, capacity improvements, and risk mitigation.Select the right process and supplier for the part, considering long-term fit and total cost of ownership.Manage supplier changes including manufacturing process changes, production optimization, facility changes, new equipment qualification, and new line validations.Drive changes to ISI requirements as necessary by initiating and managing changes to specifications and drawings through the engineering change order process.Own and drive to closure supplier variances from symptom through root cause analysis to corrective action, including careful CAPA documentation.Effectively prioritize and advance multiple concurrent projects and tasksClearly communicate project status to key partnersBuild, own, and relentlessly pursue a vision for developing suppliers.Understand proper level of documentation detail for tracking of actions and justifications.Generate key metrics for the team and suppliers, and continually drive for timely achievement of those metrics.Drive suppliers to continually improve their business and manufacturing process performance to meet Intuitive's requirements for supplier excellence using a collection of best practices in project management, Six Sigma, Lean, SPC and negotiation. Drive these efforts without managerial guidance at several suppliers simultaneously.Implement corrective and preventive actions for supplier process by driving supplier's investigations and root cause analysis.Provide effective and timely supply base health information and recommendation to management by creating and delivering data-driven supply base information to any level of management at ISI with little or no guidance.Prepare and deliver supplier communications and work directly with suppliers on scorecard creation