Senior Director, Manufacturing Engineering- Mexico

- Full-time
- Shift: Day
- Ways of Working: Onsite - This job is fully onsite.
- Employee Type: Employee
- General Job Level (HCM): Management 6, Sr Dir (18)

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

The Senior Director, Manufacturing Engineering - Mexico is responsible for leading the manufacturing engineering organization across Intuitive’s Mexico operations, ensuring the organization delivers world-class manufacturing capability, operational excellence, and long-term business scalability.

This executive leader is accountable for defining the manufacturing engineering strategy, building organizational capability, developing future engineering leaders, and enabling sustainable growth through technology, process innovation, and operational excellence. As a member of the Mexico Site Leadership Team, this role partners with Global Manufacturing,



Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and other enterprise functions to translate business strategy into manufacturing capability while ensuring world-class quality, productivity, cost performance, and operational readiness.

Success in this role requires balancing strategic transformation with flawless operational execution while developing a high-performing engineering organization capable of supporting future business growth.

Strategy & Business Leadership

- Define and execute the multi-year Manufacturing Engineering strategy supporting Mexico operations.
- Develop the engineering operating model required to support business growth, new technologies, and manufacturing scale.
- Serve as a strategic advisor to Site Leadership on manufacturing capability, automation, capital investment, organizational design, and operational performance.
- Align site priorities with enterprise manufacturing and product strategies.
- Lead engineering participation in strategic planning and long-range capacity planning.
- Build and lead a high-performing, multi-layer engineering organization.
- Develop succession plans, leadership capability, and technical career paths.
- Coach Directors, Managers, and senior technical leaders.
- Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Provide strategic oversight for sustaining manufacturing engineering across Systems, Endoscopes, Instruments, and Accessories.




- Ensure production continuity, quality, capacity, and cost optimization.
- Standardize engineering practices, KPIs, governance, and operating mechanisms.
- Lead manufacturing readiness for capacity expansion, transfers, and technology deployment.
- Drive improvements in productivity, yield, equipment reliability, automation, and cost.
- Influence enterprise manufacturing strategy through cross-functional partnerships.
- Represent Manufacturing Engineering in executive reviews.
- Drive global best-practice sharing and operational consistency.
- Own engineering operating budget, capital planning, and resource allocation.
- Develop investment business cases and deliver measurable ROI.
- Drive adoption of automation, robotics, digital manufacturing, AI-enabled process optimization, and Industry 4.0 capabilities.
- Develop technology roadmaps supporting long-term competitiveness.

Required Skills and Experience

- Strategic business acumen and executive leadership.
- Strong financial and operational management.
- Ability to influence across matrix organizations.
- Deep expertise in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, operational excellence, and regulated manufacturing.
- Excellent communication, change management, and structured problem-solving.

Education

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required.
- Master’s degree preferred.

Experience

- 20+ years of progressive manufacturing engineering or operations leadership.
- 10+ years leading large multi-layer engineering organizations.
- Experience developing engineering operating models, KPI systems, and organizational transformation.
- Experience managing large operating and capital budgets.
- Medical device or other highly regulated manufacturing experience preferred.

Working Conditions

- None

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📌 Senior Director, Manufacturing Engineering- Mexico (Mexicali)
🏢 Intuitive
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