Urgent Need: Industrial Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA

Job Description
Deliver significant improvements in cost, manufacturability, capacity, and serviceability for robotic surgical instruments and accessories.
The Industrial Engineer is responsible for leading continuous improvement projects, maintaining the plant layout, time studies, balancing production lines and strives to maintain gross efficiency metrics accuracy.
Maintaining standard time for all products ensuring there is enough space availability and capacity installed as well as provide HC quantity needed to meet build plan among other industrial engineering related activities.
Essential Job Duties

Maintaining labor efficiency metrics accurate and actionable for the Mexicali site
Leading continuous improvement projects
Coaching and providing training on continuous improvement tools and methodologies
DMAIC, root cause analysis, SPC, other statistical techniques, etc
Perform Time studies to determine standard time and line balancing.
Keep production time standards updated Maintaining the plant layout to improve productivity and capacity.
Productivity improvement activities
Waste reduction activities
Train, develop, and motivate production personnel to follow procedures, meet high quality standards, production schedules, and productivity requirements.
Ensure there is enough capacity installed to meet build plan.
Elaborate VSM of critical processes
Lead initiatives focused on yield improvement; Update documents as needed to maintain compliance with the quality system.
Update of manufacturing methods in Work instructions (MPI)
Operating procedures (SOP's, DOP's, etc.) creation and update
Support SIOP cycle and MS initiatives related to capacity.
Maintain capacity data accurate and updated.
Plan, supervise, drive improvement, and report production performance including output, yields, root cause failures, efficiencies, and trends Assist in setting and attaining quarterly and annual production goals.
Learn and enforce company safety policies and practices Equipment, Fixtures and Tools reliability challenge and provide design improvements proposals.
Performs other duties as required.
Travel: Position may require 1%-5% travel.
 
Required Skills and Experience
Minimum 3 years, manufacturing, or process engineering experience with Mid/high volume manufacturing
Be of high character and energy with regard for detail
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
Able to communicate eloquently up, down, and sideways.
Demonstrate leadership skills to coordinate and coach other employees in continuous improvement activities.
Demonstrate to be a self-directed employee with a minimum of supervision.
Demonstrate Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma Green Belt knowledge.
Demonstrate ability in root cause analysis and continuous improvement.
Schedule oriented and demonstrate results based on such schedules (Plans / Gantt charts) Possess strong communication skills to interact with suppliers and other departments within the company (product development, planning, purchasing, regulatory, quality, etc…) MS in an engineering discipline.
Prior experience working in an FDA/ISO regulated environment.
Experienced in ISO 13485 or medical device manufacturing environment.
Experience in Just-In-Time, Demand Flow Technology, and Lean Manufacturing techniques, 5’s Production Time Standard, calculation

Required Education and Training
BS degree in Industrial/ Mechanical/ Electrical/ Electronic Engineering or equivalent
High English Level (+ 90 %)
Working Conditions

Preferred Skills and Experience
Prior responsibility for process, equipment, or product validation/verification
Prior experience with automated equipment, complex mechanism manufacturing, or robotics
Able to read and understand mechanical and electrical drawings.