Staff Engineer - Value Engineering

Job description

Primary Function of the Position The Staff Value Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for working cross functionally to identify, develop and implement enterprise-wide value engineering processes and tools. This role will also act as a subject matter resource as needed to facilitate value engineering activities. This role will be instrumental in the identification and implementation of cost savings and ensuring that value is maximized across the full product lifecycle with solutions for cost, quality, and scale through a collaborative, cross-functional approach.

Essential Job Duties

Develop and Implement Value Engineering Processes and embed them into Intuitive’s broader business practices, such as the Product Development Process (PDP). Standardize and incorporate best practices to improve product cost, quality, and scale. Collaboratively lead the identification, assessment, recommendation and implementation of Value Engineering Tools to be integrated into Intuitive’s broader business practices, such as Should Cost modeling and Design For Manufacturing (DFM).

Become a subject matter resource on various value engineering methodologies (FAST, Should Cost, DFx, etc). Facilitate Value Engineering workshops as required. Develop training as needed to support embed the value engineering capability and mindset within the extended enterprise. Collaborate with the extended enterprise to identify and drive systemic Value Engineering opportunities into focused actions necessary to accomplish overarching targets for released and new products.

Work with the extended enterprise to influence supplier technology roadmaps to ensure Intuitive system and instrument technical requirements are met. Work with the extended enterprise to define criteria/guidelines for design for manufacturing based on process, and best practices for qualifying components.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

Knowledge of value engineering and/or value analysis processes and tools. Product design and analysis skills, including ability to interpret detailed drawings and execute tolerance stack-ups for assemblies. Familiar with common manufacturing processes utilized to produce both low and high-volume components and assemblies. Strong technical skills involving problem solving, DFM, and should-cost/could-cost. Demonstrated knowledge of component manufacturing processes utilized in the medical device industry (e.g., injection molding, stamping, machining, etc) Strong verbal and written communication skills, excellent interpersonal skills.

Experience training and/or facilitating value engineering workshops is a strong plus. Familiarity with medical device design, control and validation regulatory requirements is a plus.

Required Education and Training Minimum Education & Experience

BS degree in Engineering with 12+ year’s of experience or Masters plus 8 or PhD plus 5 in design engineering, manufacturing engineering, process engineering, supplier engineering, preferably in the med device industry. Certified Value Methodology Associate or Value Specialist preferred. Working Conditions On-site, Sunnyvale, CA Ability to travel to suppliers, domestic and international, up to 20% time