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

At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday and that makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work. We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations. 

Medtronic’s Nathan Lane Operations has an exciting opportunity for an Engineering Leader, providing leadership to our Stent Fabrication team. In this role, you will lead a team of Engineers supporting our fabrication area which performs all post laser cutting processing for our nitinol stents. As a critical team member of 2 value streams for the PVH OU (Peripheral Vascular Health Operating Unit). You will focus on both short term and long-term strategies to meet the needs of our patients. This is an exciting time to join our team as we are making critical investments in Stent Fab production area.

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.

This is an excellent opportunity for an Engineering professional. Are you ready to take the next step in your career and write a chapter in our story of innovation?

This position is at our Plymouth MN manufacturing site and requires on-site presence 5 days a week.

Responsibilities include the following and other duties may be assigned.  

• Provides leadership to a sustaining engineering team support our stent fabrication production area.   

• Collaborates with Operations to define strategy for our fabrication area.   

• Collaborates with our Equipment and Automation leadership to develop business cases for equipment and automation supporting the strategic direction. 

• Partners with AME (Advanced Manufacturing Engineering) team defining new technologies, processes, and product opportunities/initiatives. 

• Collaborates and networks with the other manufacturing sites within the manufacturing region and broader Medtronic. 

• May develop, evaluate, implement, and maintain technical quality assurance and control systems or reliability systems and standards pertaining to materials, techniques, or company products. 

• Oversees the investigation and evaluation of existing technologies, processes and equipment utilized in production. 

• Guides the conceptualization of new methodologies, materials, machines, processes, or products. 

• Directs the development of new concepts from initial design to implementation. 

• Manages feasibility studies of the design to determine if capable of functioning as intended. 

• Monitors documentation maintenance throughout all phases of sustaining engineering. 

• Organizes the coordination of activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery. 

• Defines and drives standard work within functional a