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.

• Designs manufacturing processes procedures and production layouts for assemblies equipment installation processing machining and material handling.
• Designs arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout.
• Designs sequence of operations and specifies procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance.
• Adapts machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions.
• May incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan.
• Inspects performance of machinery equipment and tools to verify their efficiency and investigates and initiates corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure product quality.
• Develops manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control and may develop those techniques.
• Provides guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.
• Ensures processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.

TECHNICAL SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM:An individual contributor with responsibility in our technical functions to advance existing technology or introduce new technology and therapies. Formulates delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering R&D systems or initiatives related to new technologies or therapies from design to implementation - while adhering to policies using specialized knowledge and skills.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy:Recognized expert managing large projects or processes.
Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables of assignments with limited oversight from manager.
Coaches reviews and delegates work to lower level specialists.

Organizational Impact:Contributes to defining the direction for new products processes standards or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results.
May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area.

Innovation and Complexity:Problems and issues faced are difficult moderately complex and undefined and require detailed information gathering analysis and investigation.
Develops solutions to moderately complex problems and/or makes moderate to significant improvements of processes systems or products independently to enhance performance of job area.
Implements solutions to problems.

Communication and Influence:Represents organization as a primary contact for specific projects and initiatives; communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels.
May negotiate with others to reach understanding or agreement and influence decision-making.

Leadership and Talent Management:Typically provides guidance coaching and training to other employees within job area.
Typically manages major / moderately complex projects involving delegation of work and review of work products at times acting as a team leader.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelors Degree in Mechatronics Electromechanical Electronic Industrial Engineering or a related field.

• 8 years of experience in the medical device industry or in a similar Manufacturing Engineering role.

• Advanced English proficiency (written and verbal).

• Knowledge of Project Management methodologies Lean Manufacturing Six Sigma (SSGB preferred) ISO 13485 and ASQ quality standards.

• Experience with Engineering Change Management systems (Agile preferred).

• Knowledge of statistics product costing Lean Manufacturing principles and Six Sigma methodologies.

• Experience leading cost reduction initiatives and managing capital projects.

• Experience in manufacturing process development and process validation.

• Experience designing and developing manufacturing processes to support efficient and compliant production.

• Experience designing production layouts including the arrangement of machines and equipment to optimize workflow and productivity.

• Experience defining sequences of operations and establishing procedures for the fabrication of tools equipment and manufacturing processes affecting product performance.

• Ability to adapt machine and equipment designs to factory capabilities and production conditions.

• Experience incorporating inspection and testing requirements into manufacturing plans to ensure compliance with quality standards.

• Experience evaluating the performance of machinery equipment and tools to verify efficiency and reliability.

• Experience investigating production issues and implementing corrective actions to resolve deficiencies and ensure product quality.

• Experience developing and implementing processes compatible with Statistical Process Control (SPC) and supporting statistical monitoring techniques.

• Ability to provide technical guidance to engineering teams to ensure designs are optimized for manufacturing capabilities and processes.

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