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A Day in the Life

The Dry Room Team Lead oversees the assembly of Defibrillation Systems batteries within a controlled dry room environment, ensuring production meets Medtronic’s quality and safety standards. This role coordinates daily workflow and assigns tasks, facilitates communication between operators, engineering, and management, and provides guidance and training to team members. The Team Lead monitors equipment and environmental conditions, troubleshoots process issues, and reports or escalates abnormalities as needed. Additionally, this position drives continuous improvement initiatives, supports accurate production documentation, and helps implement process enhancements to maintain operational excellence and product quality.

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

• Leads production team work process, equipment testing, manufacturing, disassembly, and reassembly as assigned by supervisor.
• Prioritizes use of operators according to build schedule.
• Communicates process issues and provides status updates to team supervisor.
• Coaches operators/assemblers on production and problem solving skills, performing technical review and machinery setup/breakdown as needed.
• Ensures Medtronic company quality and safety standards are upheld.

PRODUCTION SUPPORT CAREER STREAM: Provides support in manufacturing operations and/or distribution centers including assembly, machinery, processing, packaging, and/or distribution of company products. May set up and operate automatic or semiautomatic machines and related equipment in a continuous production/processing operation. Reports any malfunctions or abnormalities in machines, with higher levels recommending and/or making adjustments to methods and processes. May be involved in shipping, receiving, inventory control, or storage of products in distribution centers.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Works on assignments that are complex in nature.
Trains, delegates and reviews the work of lower level employees and may be responsible for leading daily operations of a work team.
Performs a variety of complex or technical-advanced clerical duties in distribution center.

Organizational Impact: Often acts as a facilitator and team leader in manufacturing/production operations or distribution center.
Work may include complex and complicated activities related to special assignments, and providing instructions to accomplish day-to-day activities to junior individuals in the department .

Innovation and Complexity: Problems faced are general and may require understanding of other job areas but typically are not complex.
May be responsible for working with supervisor to identify potential adjustments or enhancements in systems and processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of job area .

Communication and Influence: Communicates typically with internal and external contacts, as needed.
Obtains and provides information on matters of significant importance to the job area.

Leadership and Talent Management: May act as a team lead and assistant to the supervisor / manager.
May delegate tasks to other team members and be responsible for the review of work product.
Does not have formal management responsibilities, but may provide input to management in this area.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires advanced knowledge within a specific discipline typically gained through broad work experience and/or education.
Requires minimum of 8 years of experience and may require vocational or technical education or certification in addition to prior work experience.
May require vocational training and/or certification.

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 regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and com