We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 7 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

As the Sr. Director of Automation Engineering – Global Operations Sustaining, you will lead a global team responsible for stabilizing, optimizing, and continuously improving production equipment and automation systems post product launch. Your work will ensure equipment reliability, compliance, and scalability across Medtronic manufacturing sites while supporting high-impact continuous improvement initiatives.

The Diabetes Operating Unit focuses on improving the lives of those within the global diabetes community. As a business, we strive to empower people with diabetes to live life on their terms by delivering innovation that truly matters and providing support in the ways they need it. We’re committed to meeting people with diabetes where they are in their journey, always with an aim to make their lives easier. Our portfolio of innovative solutions is designed to provide customers greater freedom and better health, helping them achieve better glucose control while spending less time managing their disease.

This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.

You will:

• Own and maintain production equipment to ensure maximum uptime, total productive maintenance (TPM), and an effective spare parts strategy.

• Lead strategic equipment upgrades and revalidations to maintain operational excellence and regulatory compliance.

• Drive continuous improvement (CI) projects to reduce cycle time, scrap, cost, and improve repair turnaround and yield.

• Implement Lean Manufacturing principles and structured problem-solving methodologies across all sites.

• Standardize and scale mature automation platforms across the global manufacturing network by leveraging existing infrastructure.

• Maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize labeling systems to ensure serialization and traceability compliance.

• Ensure compliance with all internal and external regulatory requirements during sustaining engineering changes and audits.

• Partner with cross-functional teams including Manufacturing, Quality, Maintenance, and Supply Chain to align on site-level OKRs, KPIs, and performance goals.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field.

• 15+ years of relevant professional experience in manufacturing, automation, or operations engineering with 10+ years in a managerial or leadership role. - Or advanced degree with a minimum of 13 years prior relevant experience, minimum of 10 years of managerial experience.

Nice to Have

• Demonstrated expertise in MES systems, PLC/HMI diagnostics, Lean Sigma tools, and TPM strategies.

• Proven success leading multi-site sustaining engineering initiatives within a regulated environment.

• Experience with serialization, traceability systems, and revalidation of modified systems.

• Master’s degree in engineering, Operations, or Business.

• Six Sigma Black Belt or Lean Manufacturing certification.

• Experience deploying standard automation platforms globally.

• Familiarity with Medtronic quality systems, global manufacturing practices, and compliance regulations.

Travel

• This role requires travel approx. 25% of time (domestic and international).

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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