We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 15 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

The Implant Durability and Lab Operations leader is a member of the Structural Heart/Aortic Modeling, Simulation and Reliability leadership team. This leader is responsible for functional leadership of the Implant Durability and Lab Operations team in Santa Ana, CA.

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 are working onsite 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This role will require less than 20% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

There are 3 critical areas required to ensure success in this role:

1) Competency Growth and Strategy: Ability to understand implant durability needs and develop a strategic roadmap with key stakeholders mapping future capability improvements needed in methods for demonstrating mechanical implant durability and submission testing.
o Accelerated Wear Testing, Dynamic Failure Mode testing, etc.
o Partner in developing characterizing tissue material properties with new test methods.
o Textile mechanical property characterization and associated test method capability development for design input and evaluation.
o Partner with Anatomy Device Interaction team in understanding use conditions to improve test methods.
o Leadership of Migration modeling/test improvement efforts across the M&T and T&C verticals.
o Integrated Hemolysis and Thrombosis (IHAT) future development and integration.
o Integration of Next generation capabilities for PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry) into program deliverables.
o Development of strategy for effectively leveraging PIV for validation of predicted flow field results from computational methods to minimize PIV test burden.

2) SNA Lab Operations Leadership: Ability to lead both Design and Test Labs, a critical functional team responsible for prototyping and validation testing for the entire portfolio. This is a business-critical function to maintain predictable development cadence for program teams across the entire portfolio. Ownership of strategic vision to grow future capabilities of Lab Operations to be best in class and most efficient and reliable in executional standards. Partnership with other R&D Labs to leverage best practices and implement continuous improvement methods.

3) Functional Leadership and Talent Development: Ability to build AND maintain a high performing engineering and technician team. Mentor and coach extended team to achieve success in meeting business outcomes and individual growth.

The key job responsibilities of the Implant Durability and Lab Operations Director are as follows:

• Plans, directs and implements all aspects of the functional competency growth for implant durability and Lab Operations in SNA.

• Accountable for strategic roadmap for durability capability improvements tied to testing and validation strategy with key inputs from Therapy teams across the SH/A portfolio.

• Responsible for functional goals and work directly with therapy leaders and extended SMEs to ensure clear communication of objectives, deliverables, and timing of key milestones.

• Manages daily execution of Lab Operation including critical path tasks, budgets, resources, and risk.

• Effective use of project schedules and work breakdown with stakeholders to manage critical path activities.

• Understands applicable product standards (ISO 5840) and procedures in the development of next generation Test Methods with a platform approach with applicability across M&T and T&C.

• Delivers results with uncompromising quality, integrity, and ethics.

• Regular communication with T&C, M&T and R&D LT through regular updates and Pre-PDP framework.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements:  To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or scientific field

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in engineering management, PDP roles with 7+ years of managerial experience OR an advanced degree with minimum of 8 years of relevant experience with 7+ years of managerial experience. 

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