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

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.

In this exciting and fast-paced role as a Principal Quality Engineer, you will have responsibility for applying and coaching the use of Design | Reliability | Manufacturability (DRM) methodologies across the Medtronic product development community. The position will support Medtronic’s DRM strategy and tactics to achieve the desired business results.  This position is responsible for global implementation across all locations of Product Development within Medtronic.   A key focus area of this position will be to implement and refine the DRM / New Product Development Metrics strategy at the Enterprise level and assure systems and processes are in place to enable the execution of that strategy.

Primary Responsibilities

• Refine and contribute to New Product Development strategy regarding metrics in partnership with the DRM Council, PMO Council, R&D Council, Quality and GOS&C organizations to enable the assessment of progress and effectiveness of the DRM and other New Product Development improvement initiatives across MDT.

• Improve the efficiency and data integrity around DRM / NPD Metrics at the enterprise level and work to assure successful integration with OU/Portfolio level metrics across MDT.

• Lead the improvements to the database (in partnership with IT, GOS&C, Quality and other functions) to facilitate collection and reporting of Metrics

• Lead the collection and reporting of Enterprise-wide Metrics.

• Analyze Metrics to determine effectiveness of improvement initiatives and identify additional improvements needed to acheilve Medtronic’s desired business outcomes such as Quality, Product Performance, Gross Margin, Cost, Time to Market, etc.

Other Responsibilities will include

• Drive best practice sharing of Metrics measurement and DRM methods across MDT businesses and functions

• Contribute to DRM program strategy development and execution in partnership with the Enterprise-wide DRM Council

• Conduct and participate in DRM Assessments across global R&D locations to enable measurement of DRM maturity growth across the business

• Assist in the development of and facilitation of DRM training for all levels of the organization (New Employees, GBs, BBs, Management)

• Provide technical leadership for the application of DRM across MDT businesses

• Facilitate application and use of DRM tools to make breakthrough improvements in the design, reliability and manufacturability of products

• Coach DRM/DFSS Black Belt and Green Belt candidates towards successful applications of the methods and successful certification

• Coach and mentor product development teams and individuals in the use of DRM methods & tools

• Enhance the product development lifecycle within R&D by applying industry best practices, processes and metrics

• Recommend improvements to work processes and procedures, design guidelines, systems models, interfaces, systems architectures, and protocols,

• All activities must be performed in compliance with the Quality System

• Performs duties in compliance with environmental, health and safety related site rules, policies or governmental regulations

• All other duties as assigned

Onsite

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 a minimum of 4 days a week 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. 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Science or technical field with 7+ years of work exper