We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 3 Jan 2025

 

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

A career at Medtronic is like no other. We are committed, we are purposeful and we are driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions of people worldwide

Do meaningful work, make a difference, and improve lives — starting with your own.

In this exciting role as an Principal Automation Process Engineer at the Nathan Lane production site your role is crucial in supporting manufacturing equipment in automation and controls. We're seeking a technically skilled, ambitious individual with a strong process automation background. You'll help integrate new technologies, improving equipment, and redesigning systems.

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

• Provides technical and sustaining engineering support in a manufacturing area.

• Recommends and implements equipment and process modifications to meet quality standards and improve production efficiencies, manufacturing techniques as well as production yields for existing products.

• Integrates equipment and material capabilities to meet process module target specifications and technology target specifications.

• Reviews product development requirements for compatibility with processing methods to determine costs and schedules.

• Interacts with product design and development personnel to ensure that processes and designs are compatible.

• Support equipment mechanization and automation from business case to implementation. 

• Lead and support an automation roadmap for value streams. 

• Develop processes to transition from manual to automated. 

• Collaborate with Advanced Manufacturing Engineering and sustaining engineering teams to integrate process changes. 

• Document equipment requirements and review vendor designs. 

• Support the full equipment life cycle, from development to sunsetting. 

• Drive standard work for equipment health assessment. 

• Improve equipment uptime through troubleshooting, design changes, vendor partnerships, and hypercare. 

• Execute automation opportunities from idea to production. 

• Oversee installation and hypercare of electromechanical systems. 

Must Have: Minimum Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant technical experience, or advanced degree with 5 years of technical experience

Nice to Have 

• Experience writing and executing equipment development documentation like FAT and URS. 

• Experience selecting and collaborating with equipment vendors. 

• Experience in site support or new equipment design/installation for manufacturing. 

• Medical product manufacturing experience. 

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 employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regu