Production Control Manager
About the Company
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.
About the Role
Manage the planning process to reduce costs, streamline processes, and implement continuous improvement objectives. This position is responsible for maximizing customer service levels while optimizing finished goods (FG) inventory investment and manufacturing resources to promote productivity. The Planning Manager works with the Sr Production Control Manager and production departments to achieve the highest levels of service, actively contributing to critical business decisions related to staffing, demand load strategies, inventory control, finished goods levels, and productivity goals.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for staff management and development, including assigning and directing work, appraising performance, hiring, training, integrating, and retention.
- Oversee department objectives related to implementation of Engineering Change Orders (ECO).
- Manage and ensure smooth transition from development to production, ensuring new products and processes are properly developed for production readiness.
- Develop and manage the planning team to focus on department and corporate goals, displaying capability and urgency in addressing expedited requirements and reprioritization while demonstrating ownership and accountability.
- Drive closure on difficult projects with limited support, influence others to make effective decisions, and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Develop and maintain countermeasures to address root causes for products on backorder.
- Develop and maintain department metrics, analyze results, identify trends, and drive the team to appropriate corrective actions when needed.
- Engage Manufacturing teams in the continuous improvement process to ensure projects are identified, prioritized, and implemented in a timely and effective manner.
- Coach and counsel lean manufacturing behaviors.
- Determine and manage potential line shortages by analyzing build schedules, shortage reports, on-hand inventory reports, and supplier delivery information.
- Develop communication relationships with Production, Engineering, Purchasing, Shipping, and Customer Service to manage supply and demand.
- Promote culture, Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), and safety.
- Procure individual development of the team.
- Drive the Culture Strategy by fostering the company’s mission, founding principles, individual and leadership expectations.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Bachelor’s Degree.
- Ability to independently manage challenging projects or assignments with little to no direction.
- Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and previous work experience in a medical manufacturing environment is a plus.
- Excellent communication skills and attention to detail.
- Computer literate with working knowledge of SAP as a plus.
- Exposure to low-volume, high-complexity capital equipment or high-volume, low-complexity products.
- Ability to communicate effectively in a multicultural, multinational environment and mobilize cross-functional high-performance teams.
- Demonstrated ability to delegate tasks, responsibilities, and authority effectively.
- Demonstrated leadership capabilities, including people development, coaching, objective setting, and evaluation.
Additional Information
Due to the nature of our business and the role, Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases, including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.
Pay
The target compensation ranges are listed below. Base salary will be determined based on experience, skills, and qualifications.
- Base Salary Range Region 1: $140,100 - $201,500
- Base Salary Range Region 2: $119,100 - $171,300
Schedule
- Shift: Day
Workplace Type
Onsite - This job is fully onsite.