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Job Location drjobs

San Jose, CA - USA

Monthly Salary drjobs

$ 96800 - 145200

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 21 Jul 2025


At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Engineers and Scientists create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Join us to make a lasting impact. Help bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide. Together we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. Join us to make a lasting impact.

We are looking for a Senior Industrial Engineer to join the Process and Equipment Excellence Team. As a part of Strategy and Technology Team - Operations Innovation you will be delivering strategic manufacturing process performance improvements across the Medtronic manufacturing plant enterprise. You will focus on the development and execution of a manufacturing workflow capacity model to assist manufacturing plants in understanding current and future capacity constraints. The capacity model will be based in zero loss methods (accounts for all time planned time and un-planned time) and help manufacturing plants to optimize production output based on management of bottlenecks and constraints. Key deliverables include deploying the existing model across the manufacturing enterprise identifying continuous improvements for the existing model and working within the capital planning process to help justify capacity expansion requests.

This role can be based anywhere preference for being near a large manufacturing plant

A Day in the Life

  • This role requires a balance between tactical execution of detailed capacity modeling and strategic rollout of capacity modeling processes and best practices

  • Conducts value stream-level studies to understand capacity and bottleneck processes. Deliver improvement recommendations for capacity modeling as well as manufacturing processes to increase production output.

  • Participate in and lead event-based capacity modeling engagements to evaluate capacity of high priority and high risk workstreams (similar to a value stream mapping or Kaizen events but focused on capacity)

  • Engage in immediate and short-term projects (often remotely) to quickly assess investment proposals and make recommendations to support or oppose capital for capacity expansion

  • Regularly delivers report outs and recommendations to manufacturing site leaders and S&T leadership teams

  • Manage and maintain capacity modeling standards including development model / tool improvements and rollout through OTS (Operations Technical Standards) portal and MPS (Medtronic Performance System)

  • Ensure alignment between Integrated Business Plannings Global Supply Review the Investment Committee (INVESTCOM) and GO&SC Project Management Office (PMO)

  • Develop and deliver training materials related to capacity modeling tools processes and best practices

  • Act as a role model / mentor throughout the Medtronic manufacturing engineering community to promote improvements in technical rigor and adoption of advanced tools and techniques. Ensure harmonization of tools and best practice.

Must Haves

Bachelors degree required and 4 years of capacity modeling experience OR advanced degree and 2 years of experience

Nice to Have

  • Advanced degree in technical field and/or MBA

  • Proficient with time study and line balance analysis and tools

  • Strong Analytic skills: MS Excel Power BI Power Query VBA SQL etc.

  • Value stream mapping or Kaizen event experience

  • Travel Willing to travel up to 25% both domestic and international

  • Understanding of performance measurements including OEE OOE and TEEP

  • Six Sigma / Lean Certification

  • Experience work in a highly regulated environment; medical device pharmaceutical aerospace or similar

  • Working understanding of medical device regulation including ISO-13485 US FDA CFR Part 820

  • Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and applicable Quality System and Regulatory Requirements

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits resources and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.


Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$96800.00 - $145200.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience certification/education market conditions and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20 hours per week: Health Dental and vision insuranceHealth Savings AccountHealthcare Flexible Spending AccountLife insurance Long-term disability leaveDependent daycare spending accountTuition assistance/reimbursement andSimple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:Incentive plans 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and matchShort-term disabilityPaid time offPaid holidaysEmployee Stock Purchase PlanEmployee Assistance ProgramNon-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) andCapital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time as required under applicable state law and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life unites a global team of 95000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor to the conference room every one of us experiments creates builds improves and solves. We have the talent diverse perspectives and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business mission and our commitment to diversity here.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. In addition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.


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Senior IC

Employment Type

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