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A Day in the Life

Careers that Change Lives

As part of the Surgical Released Product Engineering (RPE) Team we drive best in class clinical outcomes customer satisfaction and business value for all commercialized Surgical products by ensuring consistent quality supply continuity and market competitiveness while elevating the technical careers of employees. The Principal R&D Engineer will support R&D RPE activities related to polymerization fiber extrusion and assembly processes for absorbable and non-absorbable polymer sutures and devices. They will serve as the design owner and technical expert supporting released product engineering teams by planning developing and executing testing and analysis activities during product change implementation. This role focuses on driving improvements in product performance and manufacturability reducing cost improving quality and ensuring supply continuity while maintaining design intent.

A Day in the Life

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Design develops analyzes troubleshoots and provides technical support during product development and manufacturing.
• Designs studies to investigate root cause or identify process parameters.
• Perform hands-on root cause analysis on the manufacturing floor leveraging direct observation of physical processes and sample evaluations to identify and resolve technical issues related to design.
• Leads activities to support product development improvements to existing products and pre-clinical studies.
• Serve as a technical expert exercising considerable latitude in determining deliverables with limited oversight.
• Defines and performs verification and validation activities ensuring products meet user needs and intended use.
• Investigation and evaluation of existing technologies.
• Guides the conceptualization of new methodologies materials machines or processes related to existing product manufacturing.
• Coordination of activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery.
• Writes engineering reports and creates presentations as required to document and communicate results.
• Collaborate with peers to lead and manage the development of appropriate testing to verify product meets internal and external customer requirements.
• Mentors and guides junior level engineers delegating and reviewing work
• Work will be performed in R&D laboratories and in manufacturing facilities

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Biomedical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Chemical Engineering or Materials Science & Engineering
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience

Nice to Have

• Specialization in bioabsorbable polymers & extrusion highly preferred
• Advanced degree preferred
• Experience in the medical device industry
• Practical experience and theoretical knowledge in the following areas:
  • Polymer development and manufacturing
  • Fiber extrusion
  • Textile manufacturing
  • Polymer Injection molding
  • Material characterization
  • Development and manufacturing of combination products
• Ability to apply statistical methods and science-based decisions to design experiments and implement improvements
• Demonstrated ability to deliver quality technical work within project schedules and timelines. Ability to work in a fast-paced deadline driven environment.
• Must be team oriented with the ability to work well on common deliverables with diverse cross-functional teams and to interact at the highest professional manner with all organizational levels
• Must have a hands-on mentality
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written and interpersonal skills to successfully partner on varying levels ranging from cross functional to global multi-site and multi-business unit
• Participation and study design for pre-clinical in vivo labs observing cases in hospitals and through customer interactions.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks/projects with a strong problem-solving ability.
• Mentoring junior level engineers.
• Experience with DRM / DFSS Lean Sigma or Green/Black Belt certification
• Knowledge of Microsoft applications (Excel Word Outlook Powerpoint)

About Medtronic
Together we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic we push the limits of what technology therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Lets work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements
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. (ADA-United States of America)

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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.

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 addition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.