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A Day in the Life

Medtronic

At Medtronic we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems make progress and deliver meaningful innovations.

Our Purpose

At our Operational Excellence department in Medtronic Athlone we focus on creating a Mission Driven culture enabling all our employees with the skills to continually improve the work we do every day and continually improve their processes. We deliver significant business results using scientific problem-solving techniques such as lean deployment and six sigma methodologies.
The Manufacturing Graduate Engineer will be joining an established team and will be instrumental in leading deploying and implementing Lean and Continuous Improvement within the site.
The Manufacturing Graduate Engineer will be directly involved in data collection and analysis cell design and improvement process optimization using lean and six sigma techniques while supporting day-to-day Operational Excellence activities.

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A Day in Life Of:

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned training and ongoing support will be provided:

• Analyze and design sequences of operations and workflow to improve efficiency in plant and production facilities and equipment layouts and will establish methods for maximum utilization of production facilities and personnel.

• Facilitation and support of Kaizen events and other continuous improvement projects across the site production inventory control quality and business processes.

• Conduct studies pertaining to cost control manufacturing timing standards cost reduction inventory requirements.

• Recommend and implement improvements to production processes methods and controls to improve Safety Quality Delivery and Cost.

• Perform Value Stream Mapping and Analysis across manufacturing and business processes identifying key areas for improvement opportunities.

• Support our current lean transformation program and gain knowledge in the lean transformation methodologies.

• Learn and utilize Lean and Continuous Improvement tools and techniques DMAIC Yellow Belt problem solving becoming Yellow Belt certified.

Key Skills & Experience

• Minimum of a level 7 degree in Manufacturing or Mechanical Engineering or similar Engineering qualification and graduated within the last 2 years.

• A dynamic collaborator who can work effectively and proactively on cross functional teams.

• Good communicator and fluent in English both writing and speaking.

• Builds and maintains positive relationships show respect for others.

• Skilled in Microsoft Excel PowerPoint and AutoCAD (or similar 2D CAD)

Nice to Have:

• As part of their degree have studied and completed projects in lean or Six Sigma.

• Has an appetite to work in a fast paced dynamic manufacturing environment.

• Will be flexible to the business need and be capable of juggling multiple assessments concurrently.

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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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.

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.

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