Associate Technical Service Specialist (Cranial and Spinal Technologies)
MedtronicAbout the role
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 Life
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. This role is onsite in Lafayette, Colorado.
The Associate Technical Service Specialist provides in-house technical support for Medtronic’s Cranial and Spinal Technologies portfolio, serving as a key resource for customers and field staff on products such as Stealth AXiS™ and O-arm™ Surgical Imaging System.
This role is responsible for troubleshooting hardware and software issues through a Technical Support call center, including time-sensitive situations during live procedures as well as support outside of the clinical setting.
The specialist ensures accurate documentation of all customer interactions, drives timely follow-up, and leverages insights from support cases to inform cross-functional teams. This individual also plays an important role in representing the Voice of the Customer, contributing feedback to support continuous improvement and new product development.
Compensation:
- Starting annual salary. $60K
- Annual Bonus: Target of 5%
- 4 weeks paid time off per year
- 10 paid holidays per year
- 401(k) with up to 6% match
- Comprehensive benefits plan, including medical, dental, vision, and more
- Fully subsidized Bachelors degree programs paid up front, and many other paid training opportunities!
- Paid family, medical, and parental leave after 1 year of employment
- Many more benefits to choose from!
Training Schedule
- Monday through Friday, 7 am - 4pm, for 3-6 months.
- Training is 100% onsite
Ongoing Schedule after the 3-6 month training period is complete:
- 8 hour shifts from Monday through Friday, between the hours of 5 am and 5pm
- Occasional on-call shifts
- Schedules rotate and the schedule is set for 3 months at a time. Shift trades are permitted as desired.
- 4 days per week onsite, 1 day per week remote
Key Responsibilities:
- Resolves technical problems that originate by telephone in a call center/help desk environment.
- Uses expertise in customer service and technical knowledge gained from previous experience to resolve issues surrounding the installation, usage, and training of customers on software and/or hardware products.
- May work with technical, sales, customer service or marketing staff to resolve recurring problems and issues with products.
- Provides technical support to users for either PC, server or mainframe applications and hardware.
- Answers questions regarding system procedures, on-line transactions, systems status and downtime procedures.
- Interacts with network services, software systems engineering and/or applications development in order to restore service and/or identify problems.
- Maintains a troubleshooting tracking log ensuring timely resolution of problems.
- Recommend systems modifications in order to reduce user problems.
- Participates on project and process teams to provide the business with technical and clinical insight, ensuring that Service’s interests are well represented.
- Assists with creation of Service Support Plans for new product development to increase serviceability of new and existing products/systems.
- Assists with other Educational, Service, Marketing, and Business support as needed.
Minimum Requirements (Must Have):
- High School Diploma (or equivalent) AND 4+ years experience OR
- Associate’s Degree AND 2+ years experience OR
- Bachelor’s Degree
Preferred Qu
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