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

Functional Excellence:

• Drive functional strategy to advance Systems & Design Engineering through process functional best practices and organizational changes.
• Lead direct and review the work of individual contributors on the Systems & Design Engineering team to ensure adherence to functional excellence expectations.
• Identify develop and/or execute training to improve product technology and clinical subject matter expertise within the group.
• Lead cross-functional teams to make appropriate timely decisions and recommendations that result in the successful completion of major organizational objectives
• Experience implementing human-centered design principles and familiarity with formative and summative assessments

Talent Development:

• Provide direct management and mentorship for the Systems & Design team to achieve organizational goals.
• Develop Systems & Design Engineering talent to be effective leaders including how to best approach technical problem solving best utilize soft skills how best to communicate to peers and leaders etc.
• Provide targeted opportunities to develop and stretch team members knowledge and capabilities.
• Recruit individuals whose skills will allow us to deliver products that meaningfully impact patient care
  

Program Execution:

• Communicate with functional partners to plan evaluate and develop technical solutions.
• Ensure programs have robust technical solutions and risk burndown plans.
• Lead multiple design activities in the product development life cycle including identification planning monitoring and executing tasks for entire project
• Understanding of medical product development and medical device requirements and regulations and standards and provide a voice of authority in ambiguous terrain
• Work with functional managers and individual contributors to overcome challenges/obstacles.
• Support key efforts if major technical challenges are identified

Strategic Planning:

• Understand the R&D future portfolio and align talent to achieve goals.
• Advocates for new systems model-based tools processes and practices and otherwise ways of doing product development that make work more efficient and effective. An outside the box thinker.
• Identify long-term opportunities that will continue to advance the systems & design engineering function over a 3-5 year time horizon.
• Partner in assessing viability and technical risks of specific technologies being considered.
• Assess long-term opportunities with other companies or academic efforts

Travel Requirements:

• Travel as needed approximately 10%.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree in engineering or other technical discipline
• 7 years of relevant experience with 5 years of managerial experience

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.