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Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

         

         

A career at Medtronic is like no other. We’re purposeful. We’re committed. And we’re driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of people worldwide. 

Engineers are indispensable to achieving our Mission. That’s why we empower you to bring the best of your experience to bear on our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Apply your existing skills and develop new ones, with the training, mentorship, and the guidance you need to continue to develop your expertise. Today, we’re partnering across the industry to confront systemic healthcare challenges – this requires bold leadership. If you want a challenging, energizing, rewarding career that changes lives, join us. Help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide.  

In this exciting role as a Senior Process Engineer, you will provide technical and sustaining engineering support in 24/7 manufacturing areas, including pack and clean processes. You will also have opportunity to support the innovation, development and/or optimization of new manufacturing concepts, processes and procedures for transfer to manufacturing operations.

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 5 days a week onsite, at our manufacturing site in Tempe, Arizona, as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

The Senior Process Engineer is responsible for sustaining and supporting equipment and processes. This entails output monitoring, performing necessary experiments to establish robust processes and gaining a thorough understanding of capabilities and interactions with upstream and downstream processes.

Responsibilities include:

• Provides technical and sustaining engineering support in manufacturing areas in cleanroom

• Support Medtronic Performance System including the Tier meetings, Gemba walk, OEE etc.

• Recommends and implements equipment and process modifications to meet quality standards and improve production efficiencies, manufacturing techniques as well as production yields for existing products.

• Perform equipment qualifications (IQ), process validations (Process characterization, OQ and PQ), and gage R&R studies (TMV)

• Integrate equipment and material capabilities to meet process module target specifications and technology target specifications.

• Review product development requirements for compatibility with processing methods to determine costs and schedules.

• Interact with product design and development personnel to ensure that processes and designs are compatible.

• Ensure processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations. Generate and maintain documentation per quality system regulations.

Minimum Qualifications:

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum qualifications are evident on your resume.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Science or Technical field and a minimum of 4 years relevant engineering experience or a Master’s degree and a minimum of 2 years relevant engineering experience OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience.

Nice to Have:

• Medical device/Pharmaceutical or other regulated industry experience.

• Hands on experience with process and/or equipment development on manufacturing process.

• Experience with DRM / DFSS, Lean Sigma, or Green/Black Belt Lean Sigma certification.

• Knowledge of DOE, statistical analysis methods and data analysis tools (Minitab, JMP, etc.).

• Experience and understanding of SPC principles including process capability analysis and control charts.

• Experience or aptitude to program, run and troubleshoot automated assembly equipment, or automated metrology tools.

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