We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 19 Sep 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

Medtronic is hiring in the Memphis Area, here our employees are helping us deliver on the extraordinary. We actively seek a diverse workforce at every level: We require fresh ideas and inclusive insights to maintain our position as an innovative industry leader. That’s why we actively seek, attract, and develop employees who are patient-centric, passionate, and who reflect the wide variety of life experiences found among our patients. 
We’ve been on a three-year journey to modernize our U.S. distribution network and transform how we distribute our products. The Airways facility is Medtronic’s newest and largest Distribution Center (DC). Airways is a critical component of our effort to modernize and consolidate the company’s distribution network in the United States. It is located in the heart of one of the world’s largest air freight hubs, just south of the Memphis airport.
The 1 million square-foot facility features state-of-the art automation that helps us leverage technology in new ways to drive scalability and flexibility across our supply chain. Airways campus supports all aspects of the Medtronic distribution network for multiple Operating Units. This new facility ensures that patients receive our life-saving products when they need them.. But none of it can happen without you – the people who power our operations and ensure that our customers receive our life-saving therapies when they need them. Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Provides technical and sustaining engineering support in a distribution environment.
• Recommends and implements equipment and process modifications to meet standards and improve production efficiencies, maintain product quality, and maintain a safe workplace.
• Integrates equipment and product capabilities to meet process module target specifications and technology target specifications.
• Pulls and analyzes data while helping articulate value back to the operations team.
• Leads the innovation, development and optimization of new distribution concepts to continually be able to service the customer both domestic and international.
• Participate in Zero Loss events, Value Stream Mappings, Kaizens, or any other lean workshop when applicable.
• Help develop distribution processes related to site KPI’s while helping to drive those metrics.
• Ensure local processes and procedures follow the Medtronic Performance System.
• Support day-to-day operation when necessary.
• Analyzes and designs sequence of operations and work flow to improve efficiencies in plant and production facilities and equipment layouts; and establishes methods for maximum utilization of production facilities and personnel.
• May establish or assist in establishing accident prevention measures and may manage training programs for personnel concerning all phases of production operations.
• Conducts studies pertaining to cost control, cost reduction, inventory control, and production record systems.
• On the basis of these studies, develops and implements plans and programs for facility modifications and revisions to operating methods.
• May assist facilities engineers in the planning and design of facilities.

Required Knowledge and Experience: 
Requires a Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years’ experience in automated distribution centers
• Proficiency in AutoCAD
• Process improvement and design
• Lean principles
• Experience analyzing data, (PowerBi)
• Warehouse management systems
• Labor management systems

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 mus