We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 5 Jun 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

An opportunity to lead a team of talented systems engineers in the definition, integration, and validation of solutions that solve the unmet needs of surgical teams world-wide and ultimately improve surgical outcomes.

Change begins with you. We look for bold ideas and fresh insights — that's what drives innovation. Come drive the future of healthcare with us. 

The Medtronic Surgical Operating Unit brings together a highly engaging cross-functional and collaborative approach to employ the full breadth of our talent, technologies, products, services, and solutions that address the needs of customers and patients across the globe.
 
The candidate will be responsible for leading a team of Systems Engineers in the definition, development, and support of complex medical device systems used in a variety of surgical procedures. 

This role reports to the Senior Director of Systems Engineering and will help with strategy, vision, development, and execution of the Systems Engineering team.
  
Functional Excellence:
•    Lead cross-functional teams to make appropriate, timely decisions and recommendations that result in the successful completion of major organizational objectives.
•    Drive functional strategy to advance Systems Engineering through process, functional best practices, and organizational changes.
•    Ability to work independently with limited supervision, engaging in many different product areas.
Talent Development:
•    Provide direct management and mentorship for the System Engineering team.
•    Develop System Engineers to be effective leaders, including how to best approach technical issues, soft skills, etc.
•    Provide targeted opportunities to develop and stretch team member’s knowledge and capabilities.
•    Recruit individuals whose skills will enable Systems Engineering to achieve organizational objectives.
Program Execution: 
•    Communicate across Business Units and with functional partners to plan, evaluate, and develop technical solutions. 
•    Lead multiple system engineering activities in the product development life cycle including identification, planning, monitoring and executing tasks for entire project.
•    Understanding of medical product development and medical device requirements and regulations and standards and provide a voice of authority in ambiguous terrain
Strategic Planning:
•    Understand the R&D future portfolio and align system engineering talent to achieve goals. 
•    Advocates for new systems model-based tools, processes, and practices, and otherwise ways of doing product development that make work more efficient and effective. An “outside the box” thinker.
•    Identify long-term opportunities that will continue to advance the systems engineering function over a 3-5 year time horizon. 

Job location:

• This role will sit in Lafayette, CO.

Travel Requirements:
•    Travel as needed, approximately 10%.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other technical discipline
• 7+ years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience

Nice to Have:

• Demonstrated excellence in Systems Engineering
• Systems engineering experience across the product lifecycle
• Extensive knowledge of global regulatory expectations, design controls, and quality management systems
• Detailed understanding of patient safety risk management
• Experience in integrating and delivering complex medical device systems
• A person that is versatile, technically savvy, curious, a broad systems thinker, and willing to work in a space with a lot of ambiguity.
• Good at communicating complex technical opportunities and challenges to upper management in a concise but thorough fashion.
• Advanced degree in Systems, Electrical, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering
• Experience working in a medical, aerospace, defense, or other relevant regulated industry.

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. 

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