Value Engineer
About The Position
The Value Engineer is a senior technical leader who works cross-functionally to develop and implement enterprise-wide value engineering processes and tools. The role serves as a subject matter resource for value engineering activities and helps identify and implement cost savings while maximizing value across the full product lifecycle. It focuses on solutions for cost, quality, and scale through collaboration across the enterprise. The role develops and embeds value engineering processes into broader business practices, including the Product Development Process (PDP), and leads the assessment, recommendation, and implementation of tools such as Should Cost modeling and Design for Manufacturing (DFM). It facilitates workshops, develops training, drives systemic opportunities into actions, influences supplier technology roadmaps, and helps define design-for-manufacturing criteria and component qualification best practices. The position is fully onsite in Sunnyvale, California, with travel to domestic and international suppliers of up to 20% of the time.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with at least 7 years of experience, or a master’s degree with at least 5 years, or a Ph.D. with at least 3 years of experience in design engineering, manufacturing engineering, process engineering, or supplier engineering.
- Knowledge of value engineering and/or value analysis processes and tools.
- Product design and analysis skills, including the ability to interpret detailed drawings and execute tolerance stack-ups for assemblies.
- Familiarity with common manufacturing processes used to produce low- and high-volume components and assemblies.
- Strong technical skills in problem solving, DFM, and should-cost/could-cost.
- Demonstrated knowledge of component manufacturing processes used in the medical device industry, such as injection molding, stamping, and machining.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience training and/or facilitating value engineering workshops.
- Familiarity with medical device design, control, and validation regulatory requirements.
- Certified Value Methodology Associate or Value Specialist.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement value engineering processes and embed them in broader business practices, including the Product Development Process (PDP).
- Standardize and incorporate best practices to improve product cost, quality, and scale.
- Collaboratively lead the identification, assessment, recommendation, and implementation of value engineering tools, including Should Cost modeling and Design for Manufacturing (DFM).
- Serve as a subject matter resource for value engineering methodologies such as FAST, Should Cost, and DFx, and facilitate workshops as required.
- Develop training to support adoption of value engineering capabilities and mindset across the extended enterprise.
- Collaborate across the extended enterprise to identify systemic value engineering opportunities and drive focused actions toward targets for released and new products.
- Influence supplier technology roadmaps to ensure Intuitive system and instrument technical requirements are met.
- Define design-for-manufacturing criteria and guidelines based on processes, and best practices for qualifying components.
Benefits
- Market-competitive compensation package including base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
