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

Location: Boulder, Colorado
Onsite: 100%

As a Senior Engineering Supervisor, you will lead and oversee a team of engineers responsible for manufacturing lines in Boulder, driving the planning, design, and execution of complex projects. You are responsible for ensuring technical excellence, fostering innovation, and driving continuous improvement within the team. Key duties include mentoring junior staff, managing project timelines and resources, coordinating cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring compliance with industry standards and company policies.

You will attend Tier 2 and Tier 3 meetings daily to ensure effective communication, issue escalation, and cross-functional alignment. As the primary engineering representative in these forums, you will provide updates on project status, address operational challenges, and facilitate timely resolution of technical and process issues. Leveraging insights from these meetings, you will drive continuous improvement initiatives and inform team priorities.

A critical aspect of your role will be tracking Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and prioritizing improvement projects to address issues related to low OEE outputs. You will analyze OEE data, identify root causes of inefficiencies, and implement targeted solutions to maximize equipment performance and reliability.

Additionally, you will target material usage variance (MUV) and scrap goals, developing strategies to minimize waste and optimize resource utilization. Your leadership will be essential in delivering high-quality solutions on time and within budget, while promoting a culture of safety, accountability, and professional growth.

 

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

• Plans, directs and implements all aspects of the company's design and development of new medical device products or software systems.

• May develop, evaluate, implement and maintain technical quality assurance and control systems or reliability systems and standards pertaining to materials, techniques, or company products.

• Oversees the investigation and evaluation of existing technologies.

• Guides the conceptualization of new methodologies, materials, machines, processes or products.

• Directs the development of new concepts from initial design to market release.

• Manages feasibility studies of the design to determine if capable of functioning as intended.

• Monitors documentation maintenance throughout all phases of research and development.

• Organizes the coordination of activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery.

• Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

Required Knowledge and Experience: 
Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 3 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 1 year of relevant experience.


Nice to Have

• Electrical, Mechanical, or Electromechanical degree    

• Medical Device experience    

• Experience with equipment development and process validation (IQ/OQ/PQ)    

• Small tooling design and development    

• Engineering experience with medical devices    

• Design of Experiments (DOE)    

• Electro-Mechanical troubleshooting skills    

• Strong statistical skills using Minitab    

• Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing experience preferred  

• Previous leadership experience

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