We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 6 Dec 2024

 

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

Job Description

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

Medtronic seeks candidates who will meet our customer expectations by striving without reserve for the highest possible reliability and quality in our products, processes, and systems by being accountable, having a voice, and taking action.

Medtronic Cardiac and Vascular Group (CVG) provides interventional devices to treat coronary arteries that are blocked by atherosclerotic plaque and devices and therapies to treat structural defects of the heart. CVG brings all our cardiac and vascular businesses together into one cross-functional, collaborative operating unit to employ the full breadth of our talent, technologies, products, services and solutions to address the needs of customers and patients across the globe.

Our Advanced Manufacturing Engineering group located in Danvers Massachusetts is part of our Interventional Vascular & Structural Heart (IV&SH) group. We are currently seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to lead and support projects within our Advanced Manufacturing Engineering group.

As the Sr. Manufacturing Engineer, you will develop and implement process and product improvements typically for projects of complex scope and wide magnitude. Some other roles and responsibilities include:

Equipment and Fixturing:

• Determine specific requirements of manufacturing operation in order to specify equipment, fixturing, and process parameters

Qualification and Validation:

• Develop plans to evaluate process repeatability and stability through equipment qualification and process validation.

Continuous Improvement and Cost Analysis:

• Improve manufacturing methods, optimize product performance and reduce manufacturing costs in a systematic fashion.

• Deploy Lean 6 Sigma methodology to identify and evaluate opportunities for improvement inherent in manufacturing processes and make specific recommendations for adoption.

• In partnership with Finance, perform detailed cost analyses of manufacturing changes, Cost reduction Projects.

Production Support and Trouble Shooting:

• Provide engineering support to manufacturing operations. Address related issues arising on the production floor.

Develop and Optimize Work Design, Manufacturing Layout and Product Flow:  

• Using Lean Manufacturing principles, recommend and implement process layouts for efficient manufacturing.  Recommend appropriate staffing levels to support manufacturing requirement.

• Define and generate all required documentation in support of manufacturing protocols, reports, manufacturing instructions and procedures.

• Ensure compliance with GMPs and internal protocol.

• Use appropriate statistical support and Design of Experiments (DOE) when developing recommendations.

• Lead teams in operations related programs including product iterations, cost reduction programs, process changes across product lines and manufacturing layout synergies

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

• New Product Development Experience

• Lean Six sigma Certification

• Understand impact of Equipment Utilization on surge (time & availability)

• Understand (DMAIC) & problem-solving Skills

• Past supervisory (Manage Meetings and people) Tactical and /or technical leadership

• Good interpersonal skills

• Injection Molding & Plastics

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