FQI Technician 1

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Primary Function of Position:

The Final Quality Inspection (FQI) technician works under general direction, follows oral and/or written instruction and performs Inspection and testing processes to produce tested electro-mechanical assemblies, sub-assemblies and accessories.  This position requires a highly-motivated team player to support quality screening for surgical robotic systems, instruments and accessories by simulating customer use, identify potential quality issues and working cross functionally with manufacturing and quality engineering teams to correct and verify issues prior to product release.
 

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Follows all applicable work instructions to perform simulated surgical procedures utilizing a surgical robotic system and accessories.
• Performing inspections at random to assess product quality.
• Measure objects comparing to their intended physical specifications, perform quality tests and identifying defects.
• Recording inspection results inputting data into quality database.
• Communicate and troubleshoot product non-conformances to Manufacturing and Quality Engineering (QE). 
• Follows all corporate, safety, production procedures and regulations
• Maintains a clean and orderly workstation.
• Maintains an excellent attendance record in compliance with established manufacturing and quality attendance guidelines. 
• Verify kanban levels for consumables and supplements for FQI.
• Create quality notifications as NCR and EE.
• Provide support required to maintain line running.
• Operate and set up (as needed), test equipment/fixtures.
• Support for the engineering team with tests or special requirements during investigations for quality events.
• Maintain ISU records on time.

Qualifications

Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:

• Must be able to complete training and certification on Final Quality Inspection procedures.
• Education and/or Experience:  High school diploma or equivalent.
• Language Skills: Basic ability to read, write and understand English on day-to-day activities (25%). Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence, and memos preferred.
• Mathematical Skills:  Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.  Ability to determine the minimum, maximum and nominal value when provided with a specification and a tolerance.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions.  Ability to deal with situations including up to several variables.  Ability to report actual or potential quality issues. Ability to suggest simple process improvements.
• Computer skills:  Proficient in use of personal computers as part of daily work, including knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite and e-mail, SAP (or similar) to perform multiple inspection transactions.
• Other skills and abilities preferred:  Ability to work varying shifts. Must have ability to complete training courses.  Ability to work in a team environment. Ability to use clocks, timers, calipers, voltmeters, power supplies, rulers, and other test equipment as required.  Meticulous attention to detail and orderly habits are required to accurately and completely document testing.  Flexibility, willingness to learn new tasks, ability to take-on a variety of responsibilities big and small, and the need to fill-in for others when needed are highly preferred attributes for this position.

Additional Information

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.

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