At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

People-centered, data-driven, connected. We're solving the world's biggest health challenges with healthcare technology. We fuse technology and research for groundbreaking solutions. From less-invasive surgery that minimizes a patient's downtime to the world’s smallest pacemaker, our technology transforms lives.

Engineers are indispensable to achieving our Mission. That’s why we empower you to bring the best of your experience to bear on our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Apply your existing skills and develop new ones, with the training, mentorship, and the guidance you need to continue to develop your expertise.

As the Senior Manufacturing Engineer , your primary responsibilities are reactive, urgent, line down support and issue resolution along with proactive process improvements to be conducted at external manufacturing partners. You will be the day-to-day engineering support to projects related to tier 1 Finished Goods (FG) products manufactured at external Contract Manufacturing sites. In this role, you will interact with different internal and external stakeholders, leading cross-functional teams, and projects, driving engineering and quality value stream excellence programs at Contract Manufacturing/Original Equipment Manufacturer (CM/OEM) suppliers.

You will have a global view and will engage with multi-disciplinary teams to support specific initiatives and programs throughout multiple time zones and locations. This role requires +25% travel to critical and strategic CM/OEM suppliers to support on-site work.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate standout leadership behaviors and will have an expert understanding of a variety of manufacturing technologies and processes, with a demonstrated track record of driving tangible process improvements, leading teams, and using structured problem solving. The ideal candidate is also an expert in understanding process improvement techniques such as Business Process Management, Kaizen, DMAIC, Value Stream Mapping, Lean manufacturing, PDCA, 6-sigma, etc.

In this role, you will work independently yet collaboratively, with the ability to coach, mentor and review junior and senior level peer work, understand multiple issues and specialties, communicate expertly with internal and external partners, and manage projects of major/moderate complexity.

As the Sr. Manufacturing Engineer, you will:

• Design manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining and material handling.

• Design arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout.

• Design sequence of operations and specifies procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance.

• Adapt machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions.

• May incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan.

• Inspect performance of machinery, equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency, and investigates and initiates corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure product quality.

• Develop manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control, and may develop those techniques.

• Provide guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.

• Ensure processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Engineering required

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience

Nice to Have

• Experience working in a highly matrixed manufacturing organization managing multiple priorities, often under deadline.

• Strong communication skills (written, verbal, listening) with all levels of the organization.

• Enthusiasm towards process improvements and change management

• 3-5 years experience in process validation

• Program Management experience

• Experience working with external suppliers and internal stakeholders to achieve complex goals

• Ability to travel within the New England region to visit external manufacturing partners

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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$97,600 - $146,400

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).

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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 90,000+ 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 (http://www.medtronic.com) .

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

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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 90,000+ 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.

We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world

• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities

• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

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

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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