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

In this role, you will support continuous improvement activities within the defined processes through observations, interactions, and basic problem-solving activities with employees in the Gemba. Together, with management, you will ensure the quality of all products produced and ensure they meet defined quality standards. Identify abnormality within area during shift

Act boldly. Compete to win. Move with speed and decisiveness. Foster belonging. Deliver results…the right way. That’s the Medtronic Mindset — our cultural norms. Our brand is rooted in action, not just words. The Medtronic Mindset defines the expectations of our culture. Every person here plays a role in bringing it to life. We recognize your extraordinary potential to ensure future generations live better, healthier lives.

Location: Tempe AZ
B Shift - 5:30 AM to 5:30 PM Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Every Other Wednesday

         

         

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

• Review each area’s standardized work / best practices. Compare current method of operation with one-best-way. Provide coaching to team when deviation is evident

• Review Pitch Tracker for area. If pitch goals are achieved, no action is necessary. If pitch goals are not reached, provide comments, communicate and escalate, as necessary.

• When abnormal conditions are evident, align with team around the appropriate countermeasure(s) path. Provide coaching and barrier resolution for team/area.

• With out-going shift Team Leader, communicate the current conditions of the area/line. Understand current challenges and countermeasure efforts. Use info to plan your shift.

• Based on present attendance, assign assembler personnel to decided processes/areas.

• Lead Tier 1 – ‘Production’ meeting with assembler personnel. Communicate assignments and current conditions within area.

• Gemba area of responsibility to ensure each process can successfully begin production operations. Ensure all items are in place to successful start-up the shift.

• Attend Tier 1 – ‘Support’ meeting. As necessary, communicate area/line specific information with meeting team.

• Each day investigate at least one problem to solve from the Pitch Tracker. Engage assembler(s), from impacted area/process to support Point Kaizen (problem solving)

• Each day walk the area with supervisor. Cover the health and status of the area. Receive coaching from your supervisor, as necessary.

• Complete 5-Why form and align to correct countermeasure plan

• Implement countermeasure(s) (24 hour resolution)

• Not all countermeasures are workable within 24 hours, communicate and escalate any help necessary to accelerate needed solution(s)

• Submit Point Kaizen for credit on Tempe SharePoint

• Follow-up on implemented countermeasures

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. 

Must Have: Minimum Requirements -To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile. 

• Requires minimum of 5 years of experience and may require vocational or technical education or certification in addition to prior work experience.

• Requires advanced knowledge within a specific discipline typically gained through broad work experience and/or education.

Nice to Have

• Microsoft Office

• A3/DMAIC tools

• Mentor/Coaching skills

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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 emp