We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 17 Jun 2026

 

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

In this exciting role as a Senior Manufacturing (Sustaining) Engineer, you will work closely with manufacturing, quality engineers, other manufacturing engineers as well as R&D, Strategic Sourcing, Quality and Packaging functions. You will lead Medtronic manufacturing in one of the Grand Rapids clean rooms. You will provide guidance to junior engineers regarding processes to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques as well as develop manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control and may develop these techniques.

The Sr. Manufacturing Engineer works with the site on validation strategy and execution and may be involved in designing and planning layout for such activities as machining, plastics processing, assembly and equipment implementation while adapting machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions. In this role, you will assist the site with the design and arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure the most efficient and productive layout.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate standout leadership behaviors and will have an expert understanding of a variety of manufacturing technologies and processes, with a demonstrated track record of driving tangible process improvements, leading teams, and using structured problem solving. The ideal candidate is also an expert in understanding process improvement techniques such as Business Process Management, Kaizen, DMAIC, Value Stream Mapping, Lean manufacturing, PDCA, 6-sigma, etc.

We seek out and hire a diverse workforce at every level: We need fresh ideas and inclusive insights to continue to be an innovative industry leader — that’s why we make it a point to seek out, attract and develop employees who are patient centric, passionate, and who represent the same wide variety of life experiences as our patients.

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 5 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.

         

         

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

• Support manufacturing partners development of lean manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing and material handling.
• May engage with supplier and facilities with the arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout.
• Collaborate with Product Development and Manufacturer on the sequence of operations and specifies procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance.
• Support the adaptation of machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions.
• Ensure capable inspection and test requirements are specified into the production Control Plan with suppliers and design Quality Engineering.
• Inspect performance of machinery, equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency, and investigate and initiate corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure product quality.
• Ensure manufacturing processes are scalable and capable by applying the appropriate Manufacturability analysis and Gage RR Statistics,
• Ensure processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations (21 CFR 820).

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

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

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience

OR

• Master's degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience

OR

• PhD with 0 years relevant experience.

Nice to Have

• 5+ years of Manufacturing Engineering experience
• GDP/GMP
• Validation planning and execution experience
• Process mapping/Control plan Generation
• Ability to review and update drawings
• Experience with creation of FMEAs
• Statistical an