Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
A Day in the LifeResponsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Performs a variety of duties in the electronic, mechanical, electromechanical, and/or optical areas.
- Constructs, troubleshoots, calibrates, adjusts, tests, diagnoses, and maintains equipment, components, devices, or systems.
- Works from schematics, engineering drawings and written or verbal instructions.
- Operates related equipment; conducts tests and reports data in prescribed format.
- Performs calibration and alignment checks; makes adjustments, modifications, and replacements as directed; prepares prescribed compounds and solutions.
TECHNICIAN SUPPORT CAREER STREAM: Provides technical support in areas such as production, operations, maintenance, safety, testing, process improvement or product development. Uses schematics, diagrams, written and verbal descriptions or defined plans to perform testing and troubleshooting on electronic or mechanical components, equipment or systems. Gathers, maintains, formats, compiles, and manipulates technical data using established formulae and procedures, and performs detailed mathematical calculations. For higher levels, may suggest and/or make improvements to optimize work processes.
DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS
Autonomy: Recognized as expert in technical area, with high degree of initiative, who trains, delegates and reviews the work of lower level employees and may be responsible for leading daily operations of a work unit.
Ensures project plans and budgets are met Recommends improvements to test processes and procedures across teams.
Organizational Impact: Performs most complex technical activities and identifies, evaluates, and implements continuous improvements to optimize work processes.
Work consists of technical tasks of the highest complexity.
Innovation and Complexity: Technical problems faced are general and may require understanding of broader sets of issues and other job areas, but typically are not complex.
Responsible for working with supervisor to implement adjustments or enhancements in systems and processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of job area and/or functions.
Communication and Influence: Communicates typically with internal contacts, including participating in benchmarking other business units.
Obtains and provides technical information on matters of significant importance to one or more job areas.
Leadership and Talent Management: May act as a team leader or coach and assistant to the supervisor / manager.
May delegate tasks to other team members and be responsible for the review of work product and processes.
Does not have formal management responsibilities, but provides input to people management decisions in this area.
Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.
Requires high school diploma or equivalent (United States), vocational or technical education or certification (all other countries).
Las responsabilidades pueden incluir las siguientes, además de otras tareas que puedan ser asignadas:
- Realiza una variedad de funciones en las áreas electrónica, mecánica, electromecánica y/o óptica.
- Construye, diagnostica, calibra, ajusta, prueba, identifica fallas y da mantenimiento a equipos, componentes, dispositivos o sistemas.
- Trabaja a partir de esquemas, planos de ingeniería e instrucciones escritas o verbales.
- Opera equipos relacionados; realiza pruebas y reporta datos en el formato establecido.
- Ejecuta verificaciones de calibración y alineación; realiza ajustes, modificaciones y reemplazos según las indicaciones; prepara compuestos y soluciones de acuerdo con los procedimientos establecidos.
Brinda soporte técnico en áreas como producción, operaciones, mantenimiento, seguridad, pruebas, mejora de procesos o desarrollo de productos. Utiliza esquemas, diagramas, descripciones escritas y verbales o planes definidos para realizar pruebas y resolución de problemas en componentes, equipos o sistemas electrónicos y mecánicos.
Recopila, mantiene, organiza, compila y manipula datos técnicos utilizando fórmulas y procedimientos establecidos, además de realizar cálculos matemáticos detallados. En niveles más altos, puede sugerir y/o implementar mejoras para optimizar los procesos de trabajo.
Factores DiferenciadoresAutonomía
Reconocido como experto en su área técnica, con un alto grado de iniciativa. Capacita, delega y revisa el trabajo de empleados de niveles inferiores y puede ser responsable de liderar las operaciones diarias de una unidad de trabajo.
- Garantiza el cumplimiento de los planes y presupuestos de los proyectos.
- Recomienda mejoras en los procesos y procedimientos de prueba entre distintos equipos.
Impacto Organizacional
Realiza las actividades técnicas más complejas e identifica, evalúa e implementa mejoras continuas para optimizar los procesos de trabajo.
- El trabajo consiste en tareas técnicas de máxima complejidad.
Innovación y Complejidad
Los problemas técnicos que enfrenta son de carácter general y pueden requerir comprensión de un conjunto más amplio de situaciones y áreas funcionales relacionadas, aunque normalmente no son altamente complejos.
- Trabaja con su supervisor para implementar ajustes o mejoras en sistemas y procesos que permitan resolver problemas o aumentar la efectividad del área funcional.
Comunicación e Influencia
Se comunica principalmente con contactos internos, incluyendo la participación en actividades de benchmarking con otras unidades de negocio.
- Obtiene y proporciona información técnica sobre asuntos de importancia significativa para una o más áreas funcionales.
Liderazgo y Gestión del Talento
Puede actuar como líder de equipo, coach o asistente del supervisor/gerente.
- Puede delegar tareas a otros miembros del equipo.
- Puede ser responsable de revisar el trabajo realizado y los procesos ejecutados.
- No tiene responsabilidades formales de gestión de personal, pero aporta información para la toma de decisiones relacionadas con la gestión de talento en su área.
Conocimientos y Experiencia Requeridos
- Mínimo de 2 años de experiencia relevante.
- Diploma de bachillerato o equivalente (Estados Unidos), o educación/certificación técnica o vocacional (otros países).
- Bachiller técnico o egresado de ITLA en Electrónica o Mecatrónica.
- Experiencia en la industria de dispositivos médicos y en procesos de validación.
- Conocimientos en PLC, variadores de frecuencia y sistemas de visión.
- Experiencia interpretando planos eléctricos y neumáticos, así como trabajando con paneles de control.
- Experiencia brindando soporte técnico y resolviendo problemas en áreas de producción.
- Inglés básico o técnico.
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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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.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Operations Incentive Plan (OIP).
Skills Required
- Minimum 15 years of relevant experience
- High school diploma or equivalent (US) or vocational/technical education or certification (other countries)
- Experience with electronic, mechanical, electromechanical, or optical systems
- Ability to work from schematics and engineering drawings and perform calibration, alignment, testing and troubleshooting
Medtronic Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Medtronic and has not been reviewed or approved by Medtronic.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is considered comprehensive, with high-quality medical, dental, and vision options through major providers and added mental-health resources. These programs are frequently highlighted as a core strength of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family benefits stand out, including up to 24 weeks paid leave for U.S. birthing parents, 12 weeks for other parents, and a global Family Care Leave at 100% pay. Family-building support (fertility, adoption/surrogacy reimbursements) and backup care further reinforce this strength.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match is described as competitive and reliable for long-term savings. Additional financial programs, such as tuition assistance and charitable-gift matching, complement retirement planning.
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Medtronic is a global healthcare solutions company operating in approximately 160 countries. We are committed to improving lives through our medical technologies, services, and solutions. Since our beginning, 60 years ago, our Mission has remained the same: to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for people around the world. The Mission is our ethical framework and inspirational goal guiding our day-to-day work. It reminds us that our efforts are transforming millions of lives each year. To meet the needs of patients and healthcare professionals around the globe, we operate from more than 370 locations in approximately 160 countries.
