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

Act boldly. Compete to win. Move with speed and decisiveness. Foster belonging. Deliver results…the right way. That’s the Medtronic Mindset — our cultural norms. Our brand is rooted in action, not just words. The Medtronic Mindset defines the expectations of our culture. Every person here plays a role in bringing it to life. We recognize your extraordinary potential to ensure future generations live better, healthier lives.

The Senior Engineering Manager - Sustaining Quality will play a critical leadership role ensuring the ongoing quality, reliability, and compliance drug-device combination products and critical components manufactured at our Fridley, MN (Rice Creek) site. This role offers the opportunity to lead experienced engineering teams, influence cross‑functional strategy, and make a direct impact on patient safety and product excellence.

Leadership Expectations: This role requires a people‑first leader who demonstrates strong judgment, clear communication, and collaborative influence while developing talent and delivering results in a complex, regulated environment.

You will provide senior leadership for sustaining quality engineering activities in a highly regulated manufacturing environment, balancing people leadership, technical judgment, and cross‑functional influence.

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 as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead and develop a team of Quality Engineers supporting the manufacture of drug‑device combination products and components

• Own sustaining quality strategies to ensure products remain compliant, reliable, and fit for use throughout their lifecycle

• Provide leadership for nonconformance management, CAPA, risk management, and product investigations in a combination‑product environment

• Partner closely with Manufacturing, R&D, Operations, Supplier Quality, Regulatory, and other Quality teams to resolve complex quality and compliance issues

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives using data, risk‑based decision making, and quality system metrics

• Ensure compliance with FDA, ISO, and other applicable product requirements and global regulations

• Serve as a key voice of quality for the Rice Creek site, influencing site strategy and execution

• Coach, mentor, and develop engineering leaders and technical talent to support long-term organizational success

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 7+ years of work experience in Engineering, Quality, and/or experience in a regulated industry with 5+ years of leadership experience OR Advanced Degree in Engineering, Science or technical field with 5+ years of work experience in Engineering, Quality, and/or experience in a regulated industry with 5+ years of leadership experience

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting drug‑device combination products 

• Familiarity with FDA QMSR, ISO 13485, and 21 CFR Part 211

• Lean, Six Sigma, or similar continuous improvement experience

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For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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