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

The Medtronic Grand Rapids Manufacturing site is a key facility focused on the production of high-quality medical devices and components related to Cardiac and Vascular Group. Here you can build a lifelong career rooted in exploration innovation and purposewhile helping advance healthcare access and equity for patients around the world. At our Grand Rapids site you will lead nonconformance investigations drive continuous operational improvements collaborating with a highly engaged crossfunctional team at one of Medtronics most dynamic manufacturing locations. Together we deliver lifechanging products that break down barriers to innovation and help create a more connected compassionate world.

As part of this team the Quality Engineer I will support the implementation and execution of Operational Quality Walks (OQWs) at the Grand Rapids site helping to sustain an alwaysready quality culture across manufacturing areas. This role will ensure consistent ownership timely completion engagement and adherence to OQW principles while partnering with crossfunctional teams to reinforce standard work and drive continuous improvement. If you are motivated by problemsolving thrive on challenges and bring strong attention to detail this role offers an excellent opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

This role is 100% onsite at our Grand Rapids MI manufacturing facility.

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

• Develop modify apply and maintain quality standards and protocol for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.

• Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.

• Devise and implement methods and procedures for inspecting testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.

• Design or specify inspection and testing mechanisms and equipment; conduct quality assurance tests; and perform statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.

• Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.

• May specialize in the areas of design incoming material production control product evaluation and reliability inventory control and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile.

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering Science or technical field with 0 years of work experience.

Nice to Have

• Strong communication teamwork and technical leadership skills

• Highly organized with effective prioritization time management and attention to detail

• Proven ability to work independently or in cross-functional teams

• Skilled in industry-standard root cause analysis (e.g. Fishbone 5 Whys) and problem-solving; Six Sigma certification preferred

• Knowledge of quality and regulatory standards (ISO 13485 FDA 21 CFR 820)

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.