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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

In this Senior Extrusion Engineer role on the Plymouth Nathan Lane Manufacturing Engineering team you will serve as the extrusion subject matter expert and technical owner for high volume medical device extrusion processes with responsibility for both daily manufacturing performance and long-term process stability and capability. You will define and execute a long-term extrusion strategy across equipment tooling materials and process controls provide hands-on shopfloor support to resolve complex issues lead validations and revalidations and drive continuous improvement efforts focused on yield reliability and cost optimization. This role requires close collaboration with cross functional partners including Production Maintenance Quality Regulatory R&D Technicians and external suppliers to manage technical risk support change initiatives and elevate extrusion capability across the site.

This role is based at the Plymouth Nathan Lane facility which supports the Peripheral Vascular Health (PVH) Operating Unit (OU). The PVH OU brings together our various peripheral vascular businesses into a single cross-functional collaborative operating unit leveraging the full breadth of our talent technologies products services and solutions to address the needs of customers and patients worldwide.

At Medtronic we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we -person exchanges are invaluable to our work. Were working a minimum of 5 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical owner for extrusion processes at the Nathan Lane site accountable for both short-term manufacturing performance and long-term process stability.

• Define document and execute a long-term extrusion stability strategy including equipment tooling materials process controls and standard work.

• Establish and maintain robust process windows control plans and monitoring strategies to ensure consistent output and sustained process capability.

• Provide direct shop-floor engineering support to troubleshoot and resolve complex extrusion process issues related to materials tooling equipment and process parameters.

• Lead process validations and revalidations (IQ/OQ/PQ) in support of sustaining operations capacity expansion and process changes.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on yield scrap reduction OEE and cost optimization with emphasis on preventing recurrence of chronic issues.

• Partner with Production Maintenance and Quality to improve equipment reliability preventive maintenance strategies and process robustness.

• Lead technical risk assessments and proactively address aging equipment supplier variability and material obsolescence risks.

• Support change management activities ensuring changes align with the long-term extrusion strategy and quality system requirements.

• Develop and maintain manufacturing documentation including process specifications control plans and work instructions.

• Support quality investigations and CAPAs by performing deep technical root cause analysis and implementing sustainable corrective actions.

• Act as the extrusion subject matter expert for the site mentoring engineers and technicians and elevating overall technical capability.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degreewith a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience

• OR Masters degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience

• OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience.

Nice To Have

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

At Medtronic we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B TN J etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.

Join us in our mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend lifewhere your unique background and perspective are valued.

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):$100000.00 - $150000.00

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