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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’re purposeful. We’re committed. And we’re driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of people worldwide.
Engineers are indispensable to achieving our Mission. That’s why we empower you to bring the best of your experience to bear on our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Apply your existing skills and develop new ones, with the training, mentorship, and the guidance you need to continue to develop your expertise. Today, we’re partnering across the industry to confront systemic healthcare challenges – this requires bold leadership. If you want a challenging, energizing, rewarding career that changes lives, join us. Help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide.

In this exciting role as a Senior Process Engineer, you will provide technical and sustaining engineering support in manufacturing areas, including die sort and wafer mount processes. You will also have opportunity to support the innovation, development and/or optimization of new manufacturing concepts, processes and procedures for transfer to manufacturing operations.

This position will work onsite at our manufacturing site in Tempe, Arizona.

The Senior Process Engineer (Die Prep) is responsible for developing and supporting equipment and processes. This entails output monitoring, performing necessary experiments to establish robust processes and gaining a thorough understanding of capabilities and interactions with upstream and downstream processes.

Responsibilities include:

Provides technical and sustaining engineering support in manufacturing areas
Support Medtronic Performance System including the Tier meetings, Gemba walk, OEE etc.
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.
Perform equipment qualifications (IQ), process validations (Process characterization, OQ and PQ), and gage R&R studies (TMV)
Integrate equipment and material capabilities to meet process module target specifications and technology target specifications.
Review product development requirements for compatibility with processing methods to determine costs and schedules.
Interact with product design and development personnel to ensure that processes and designs are compatible.
Ensure processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations. Generate and maintain documentation per quality system regulations.

Minimum Qualifications:

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum qualifications are evident on your resume.

• Bachelor’s Degree required 

• A minimum of 4 years relevant engineering experience or a Master’s degree and a minimum of 2 years relevant engineering experience.

Preferred (Nice to Have) Qualifications:

• Medical device/Pharmaceutical or other regulated industry experience.

• Hands on experience with process and/or equipment development on manufacturing process.

• Experience with DRM / DFSS, Lean Sigma, or Green/Black Belt Lean Sigma certification.

• Knowledge of DOE, statistical analysis methods and data analysis tools (Minitab, JMP, etc.).

• Experience and understanding of SPC principles including process capability analysis and control charts.

• Experience or aptitude to program, run and troubleshoot automated assembly equipment, or automated metrology tools.

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 pe