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Senior Quality Engineer

Medtronic
Santa Ana, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 Aug 2025
💰 $145,200/yr

About the role

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 2 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 Santa Ana is looking for an experienced quality engineer to support our manufacturing in Santa Ana, CA. This position is located in Santa Ana, CA (100% on-site role) and reports into Global Manufacturing and Supply Chain Quality organization. Santa Ana site is part of the OC Campus, consisting of Santa Ana, CA (primarily Cardiac Surgery, Structural Heart portfolio) and Irvine, CA (primarily Neurovascular portfolio).

The primary responsibilities for this role includes project management, NPI and day-to-day productions supports with close collaboration with cross-functional supporting teams (engineering, productions, OPEX, microbiology, PMO, facilities, etc.).

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

  • Managing and leading NCMRs, CAPAs, and other quality activities that arise.

  • Managing and/or supporting projects (sustaining projects and NPI projects).

  • Executing Test Method Validations.

  • Supporting process validation activities (DQ/IQ/OQ/PQ).

  • Leading and/or providing guidance for problem solving using DMAIC methodologies.

  • Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality standards and protocol for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.

  • Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.

  • Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.

  • Designs or specifies inspection and testing mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.

  • Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.

  • May specialize in the areas of design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile. 

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Science or technical field with 4+ years of work experience in Engineering and/or Quality OR Advanced degree in Engineering, Science or technical field with 2+ years of work experience in Engineering and/or Quality

Nice to Have

  • Lean Six Sigma certification

  • First Time Quality experience

  • Animal tissue processing experience

  • ASQ certification such as CQE, CQA

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. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation
 

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$96,800.00 - $145,200.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtron

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