Principal Manufacturing Engineer

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Our Purpose

At Medtronic, we are engineering the extraordinary. In this role, you will help advance innovative technologies and therapies that improve patient outcomes worldwide. Working as part of a collaborative cross-functional team, you will apply your technical expertise to develop and optimize manufacturing processes, support new product introductions, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. Through innovation, problem-solving, and a commitment to quality and compliance, you will play a key role in delivering safe, effective, and reliable products that make a meaningful difference to patients' lives.

Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life Of:

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

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

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

• Design sequences of operations and specify procedures for the fabrication of tools, equipment, and other functions affecting product performance

• Adapt machine or equipment designs to factory and production conditions

• Manage 3rd party machine builders and manufacturing equipment suppliers, including quoting, tracking deliverables and progress through factory acceptance and site acceptance testing.

• Incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan, as needed

• Inspect the performance of machinery, equipment, and tools to verify efficiency

• Investigate problems and deficiencies, and initiate corrective actions to ensure product quality

• Develop manufacturing processes applicable to statistical process control and, where appropriate, 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 compliant with applicable regulations

Key Skills & Experience

• Requires a Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR PhD with 3 years relevant experience.

• Self-starter with the ability to work with a high degree of ambiguity and need for discovery

• History of succeeding in a fast-paced, highly dynamic new product development environment

Nice to have

• Experience implementing software releases into manufacturing, particularly related to test automation

• Knowledge of capital equipment production in a low-volume, high-complexity environment

• Experience with production software release and design transfer of software into a manufacturing setting

• Knowledge of capital equipment production with experience in motors, sensors, and electro-mechanical assemblies

• DMAIC and Lean Manufacturing experience, including Black Belt certification

Career Stream: Technical Specialist

This is an individual contributor role within the technical career stream, with responsibility for advancing existing technology or introducing new technology and therapies. The role formulates, delivers, and/or manages assigned projects and works with stakeholders to achieve desired results. The individual may act as a mentor to colleagues or direct the work of lower-level professionals.

The majority of time is spent delivering R&D, systems, or initiatives related to new technologies or therapies, from design through implementation, while adhering to policies and applying specialized knowledge and skills.

Differentiating Factors

• Works with autonomy

• Recognized expert managing large projects or processes

• Exercises considerable latitude in determining assignment deliverables, with limited oversight from manager

• Coaches, reviews, and delegates work to lower-level specialists

Differentiating Factors

• Contributes to defining direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy

• Has significant impact on work group results

• May manage large projects or processes that extend beyond the immediate job area

Innovation and complexity

• Addresses difficult, moderately complex, and often undefined problems

• Requires detailed information gathering, analysis, and investigation

• Develops solutions to moderately complex problems

• Independently makes moderate to significant improvements to processes, systems, or products to enhance performance

• Implements solutions to problems

Communication and Influence

• Represents the 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 the job area

• Typically manages major or moderately complex projects

• May delegate work, review work products, and act as a team leader

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Requires mastery of a specialty area and full knowledge of industry practices

• Typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience

• May have broad knowledge of project management

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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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. 

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Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
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