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

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

• Execute automation opportunities from concept to production deployment.
• Support equipment mechanization and automation from business case to implementation.
• Improve equipment uptime through troubleshooting design changes vendor partnerships and hypercare.
• Work with sites and maintain an automation roadmap for value streams.
• Develop processes to transition from manual to automated operations.
• Collaborate with Advanced Manufacturing Engineering and sustaining engineering teams to integrate process changes.
• Document equipment requirements and review vendor designs for compliance.
• Support the full equipment life cycle from development to sunsetting.
• Drive standard work for equipment health assessment and reliability.
• Oversee installation and hypercare of electromechanical systems.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

Bachelors degree required

Requires a Bachelors degreeand 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

4 years experience in:

PLC Troubleshooting: Diagnose repair and optimize PLC-controlled systems to ensure reliable automation performance.

Mechanical Design: Develop and refine mechanical components and assemblies for automated equipment.
Electrical Design: Develop and refine electrical drawings for automated equipment.
Machine Building: Oversee and support the construction and integration of automated machinery from concept to deployment.
Systems Engineering: Design and implement integrated automation systems ensuring compatibility across hardware and software platforms.
Programming: Design program and deploy applications written or Python.
Simulation: Utilize simulation tools to validate automation concepts optimize workflows and predict system performance.
Machine Vision: Implement vision systems for inspection quality control and process automation.
Robotics: Design program and deploy robotic solutions for manufacturing and material handling applications.
Cobots: Integrate robots and collaborative robots (Cobots) into production environments for flexible automation.
Process Development: Develop and optimize manufacturing processes to transition from manual to automated workflows ensuring scalability and efficiency.

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.

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.