We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 20 Aug 2025

 

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A Day in the Life

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We are looking for a Senior Industrial Engineer to join the Process and Equipment Excellence Team. As a part of Strategy and Technology Team - Operations Innovation, you will be delivering strategic manufacturing process performance improvements across the Medtronic manufacturing plant enterprise. You will focus on the development and execution of a manufacturing workflow capacity model to assist manufacturing plants in understanding current and future capacity constraints. The capacity model will be based in zero loss methods (accounts for all time, planned time, and un-planned time), and help manufacturing plants to optimize production output based on management of bottlenecks and constraints. Key deliverables include deploying the existing model across the manufacturing enterprise, identifying continuous improvements for the existing model, and working within the capital planning process to help justify capacity expansion requests.

We have a strong preference to have this person based at a Medtronic Manufacturing facility.

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 4 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. 

A Day in the Life

• This role requires a balance between tactical execution of detailed capacity modeling and strategic rollout of capacity modeling processes and best practices

• Conducts value stream-level studies to understand capacity and bottleneck processes. Deliver improvement recommendations for capacity modeling as well as manufacturing processes to increase production output. 

• Participate in and lead event-based capacity modeling engagements to evaluate capacity of high priority and high risk workstreams (similar to a value stream mapping or Kaizen events, but focused on capacity)

• Engage in immediate and short-term projects (often remotely) to quickly assess investment proposals and make recommendations to support or oppose capital for capacity expansion

• Regularly delivers report outs and recommendations to manufacturing site leaders and S&T leadership teams

• Manage and maintain capacity modeling standards, including development model / tool improvements, and rollout through OTS (Operations Technical Standards) portal and MPS (Medtronic Performance System)

• Ensure alignment between Integrated Business Planning’s Global Supply Review, the Investment Committee (INVESTCOM), and GO&SC Project Management Office (PMO)

• Develop and deliver training materials related to capacity modeling tools, processes, and best practices

• Act as a role model / mentor throughout the Medtronic manufacturing engineering community to promote improvements in technical rigor, and adoption of advanced tools and techniques. Ensure harmonization of tools and best practice.

Must Haves

Bachelor’s degree required and 4+ years of capacity modeling experience OR advanced degree and 2+ years of experience

Nice to Have

• Advanced degree in technical field, and/or MBA

• Proficient with time study and line balance analysis and tools

• Strong Analytic skills: MS Excel, Power BI, Power Query, VBA, SQL, etc.

• Value stream mapping or Kaizen event experience 

• Travel – Willing to travel up to 25%, both domestic and international

• Understanding of performance measurements including OEE, OOE, and TEEP

• Six Sigma / Lean Certification

• Experience work in a highly regulated environment; medical device, pharmaceutical, aerospace, or similar

• Working understanding of medical device regulation including ISO-13485, US FDA CFR Part 820

• Knowledge of Good Man