We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 26 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

Engineering Maintenance Excellence - Our Purpose
We maximize business value by establishing systems and practices for the design and management of equipment to optimize availability and its effective life, through the prioritization of effective and efficient planned, preventative, and predictive maintenance.

Our Enterprise Maintenance Excellence function is part of the Operation Innovations (OI) Group. We focus on all aspects of the equipment life cycle, from development, maintaining as new and ultimate decommissioning. We engineer the extraordinary through rigorous application of technical excellence and enterprise-wide development, deployment, and execution of engineering strategy.

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. 

Come for a job, stay for a career!

• Lead, select, develop, evaluate, and motivate a highly talented, diverse, engineering team to ensure the efficient operation of the function

• Lead the USA Maintenance Excellence team to deliver the goals and objectives for the USA region

• Establish best practice standards and principles for equipment requirements and maintenance

• Deploy Enterprise Maintenance Excellence road map as part of Medtronic Performance System (MPS) leveraging Total Performance Maintenance principles (TPM)

• Provide technical expertise on equipment performance and reliability

• Establish programs and solutions for increasing uptime solving equipment problems that affect the manufacturing process based on zero loss and zero downtime mindset

• Provide technical support to the manufacturing maintenance equipment teams and process engineering teams

• Develop and deploy equipment and maintenance excellence applying root cause analysis and problem-solving skills across the Enterprise

• Define and write preventative and predictive maintenance strategies

• Partner with internal and external experts to maintain and strengthen relevant engineering and technical expertise

• Grow and nurture cross site and cross functional relationships in a large, multi-site, matrixed organization

• Lead and support team to understand and comply with company policies & procedures and external standards & guidance

• Generate novel and unique solutions to both engineering and organizational challenges

Must Haves

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of Equipment or Maintenance experience OR advance degree and 5+years of experience

• 5+ years of Managerial experience

Nice to Have

• Excellent team building, communication, facilitation, and leadership skills

• Experience in Total Performance Maintenance (TPM) applications

• CMRP or CRL certification

• Dynamic team player and can work effectively and proactively at site level and on a global team

• Ability to travel up to 25%

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 communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation
 

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
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