We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 13 Jun 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

We are currently looking for a Principal Quality Engineer to join our growing team supporting the Cranial and Spinal Technologies (CST) portfolio. The CST operating unit provides a comprehensive portfolio of proven powerful technologies setting the highest standards of integrity and reliability in Cranial and Spinal care.

This position will work a hybrid schedule with 3 days onsite at our Memphis, Tennessee location.
Travel expectation: less than 20%

Careers That Change Lives

In this exciting role, you will have primary responsibility for leading quality assurance strategies and execution for new and commercialized devices. This is a dynamic opportunity where you will also be involved in developing design and change control strategies throughout the product lifecycle.

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

• Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality standards and protocol for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
• Collaborates with engineering and extended team members to ensure compliance with quality management systems and regulatory requirements.
• Lead development and maintenance of quality records per established processes - design history files, risk management, change requests across the product lifecycle.
• Perform duties as the quality engineering lead between the design site and internal/ external manufacturing sites - devise and implement methods/ procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision, accuracy, stability and control of products and/ or production equipment.
• Support activities for Product Acceptance, Product Performance Reviews and Production Parts Approval Process, as applicable.
• Monitor parts through the development and production value stream, communicate and resolve issues in a timely manner (including leading nonconformance assessments, investigations, corrective and preventive actions)
• Lead continuous improvement efforts to identify opportunities and implement changes (including training) to enhance product quality and reliability.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior engineers and team members, fostering a culture of quality and innovation.
• Ensure design assurance rigor and quality systems compliance (including post market surveillance activities) for new and released products.

Must Have: Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or technical related degree – Mechanical or Industrial Engineering preferred
• Minimum of 7 years of engineering experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of medical device experience.

Nice to Have -Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with global engineering teams in the medical device industry.
• Ability to effectively communicate and work collaboratively with others as member of a team across the organization and/ or locations.
• ASQ Quality certification – CQE, CSQP, CQA.
• Hands on experience and expert knowledge with blueprint reading (including geometric dimensioning and tolerancing), metal machining, metrology and statistical tools .
• Proven expertise with effective implementation of international standards (eg. FDA, ISO, IEC) and tools for risk management, design and production controls.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt.
• Excellent written, communication and project management skills

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 th