It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.
We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.
The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.
If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you’ll find your purpose here.
Primary Function of Position:
Achieve given team performance goals for Warehouse operations. The goals will include inventory management, receiving and materials movement related metrics. This position is responsible for oversight of personnel, administration of the warehouse operations, receiving, inventory accuracy in stockroom locations, operating supplies warehousing, internal replenishment processes and driving the cycle count programs.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Hire, train, develop, and motivate warehouse personnel to follow procedures, meet high quality standards, production schedules, operations dept goals, and productivity requirements
- Maintain data in compliance with regulatory controls including records for timeliness and accuracy of Inventory, Receiving
- Analyze and correct issues related to SMKT storage quantities
- Monitor inventory dollar value for all responsible locations on a weekly basis and correct or report to the responsible Manager when discrepancies occur
- Optimize operational efficiencies through application of Lean practices which include (but not limited to):
- Capacity management and analysis of workloads
- Identification and elimination of waste in all Warehouse operations
- Provide vision and direction to work group and drive training to Lean Material flow practices.
- Scheduling work activities and assignments.
- Efficiently allocating available resources and re-assigning personnel throughout a shift.
- Coordinating resource assignments with other departments, (Production, Planning, Purchasing, Quality, Materials etc.).
- Ensure that optimal inventory levels of commodities are maintained to meet production requirements.
- Drive Planning and Purchasing to reduce overstock situations.
- inventory turns while meeting shipment deadlines above expectations
- Responsible for managing employee training record completion and status
- Evaluate and provide annual performance feedback to direct reports to ensure performance criteria are being met.
- Implement Short-Term Problem Containment and Long-Term Corrective Action for cycle count discrepancies
- Drive continuous improvement of current systems and processes and work closely with production planning and management to optimize the value stream opportunities.
- Responsible and accountable for Cycle Counts of required locations per published schedules.
- Interface with and support: manufacturing, quality control, finance, planning, field service, and order management
- Responsible and accountable for Cycle Counts of required locations per published schedules and Physical Inventory as required.
- Facilitate monthly reporting of Cycle Count Metrics for company-wide review.
- Coordinate root cause analysis (RCAs) for inventory discrepancies and drive corrective actions to improve accuracy
- Perform hands-on standard work activities as needed to meet the team's daily goals and requirements.
Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:
- Bachelor's degree in business, logistics, supply chain management, or a similar field.
- Minimum of 3-year experience in managing warehouse activities and material flow in high and low volume, manufacturing environments.
- Significant computer experience including MS Office products and ERP systems, preferably SAP and Agile.
- Proven track record of being an effective Supervisor in a fast paced, high volume manufacturing company
- Demonstrated knowledge of Kanban systems and other Lean material flow practices preferred.
- Demonstrates concern for precision and thoroughness.
- Proven ability to lead a team to consistently achieve stretch goals and objectives.
- Ability to provide positive direction by encouraging peers to have a commitment to high standards of quality and performance.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and projects successfully.
- Verbal and written communication skills
- Effectively manages task breakdown, helps keep individual contributors on task, player-coach and ability to step in and perform hard tasks.
- In depth knowledge of inventory control systems and processes and root cause analysis.
- Knowledge of safety requirements and material handling equipment operation
- Knowledge of clean room practices.
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.
Aviso sobre los Controles de Exportación de EE. UU.: De acuerdo con las Regulaciones de Administración de Exportaciones de EE. UU. (15 CFR §743.13(b)), algunos puestos en Intuitive Surgical pueden estar sujetos a controles de exportación de EE. UU. para candidatos que sean nacionales de países actualmente bajo embargo o sanciones.
Cierta información que usted proporcione como parte de la solicitud será utilizada para determinar si Intuitive Surgical necesitará (i) obtener una licencia de exportación del gobierno de EE. UU. en su nombre (nota: el proceso de obtención de la licencia puede tardar entre 3 y más de 6 meses) o (ii) implementar un Plan de Control de Tecnología (“TCP”, por sus siglas en inglés) (nota: normalmente este paso agrega 2 semanas al proceso de contratación).
Para cualquier puesto en Intuitive sujeto a controles de exportación, las ofertas finales están condicionadas a la obtención de una licencia de exportación aprobada y/o a la ejecución de un TCP antes de la fecha de inicio del empleado potencial, la cual puede o no ser flexible, y dentro de un plazo que no obstaculice de manera irrazonable la necesidad de contratación. Si aplica, los candidatos serán notificados e instruidos sobre cualquier requisito relacionado con estos fines.
Este puesto puede cubrirse con un nivel de puesto diferente al indicado aquí, según las necesidades del negocio y/o la experiencia, los conocimientos y las habilidades del candidato o la candidata seleccionado. La compensación se basará principalmente en el nivel del puesto en el que se cubra el rol y en las cualificaciones del candidato o la candidata, de conformidad con la legislación aplicable.
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