Facilities Project/Program Manager

Medtronic; Galway; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic in Galway seeks a seasoned Facilities/Engineering leader to drive complex capital projects across facility infrastructure, manufacturing environments, laboratories, and workplace facilities. You will guide projects from business case through occupancy, coordinating remote and local teams and external partners.

The role requires a degree in Engineering with 5 years’ experience, deep knowledge of project management methodologies, and strong financial acumen for budgets and forecasts.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical) with 5 years of experience.
• Experience managing capital projects and programs involving facility infrastructure, engineering projects, manufacturing construction, laboratories, and real estate.
• Masters-level knowledge of facilities and construction project management methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects through the full project lifecycle including business case development, programming, site selection, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, occupancy, and project closeout.
• Manage multiple capital projects simultaneously, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, quality, and safety objectives are achieved.
• Lead both remote and local project teams, driving alignment, accountability, and timely execution.
• Direct external design consultants, construction managers, contractors, and service providers to deliver project objectives.
• Develop business cases and manage capital project budgets, risk assessments, expenditure forecasts, and financial performance reporting.
• Partner with Facilities Operations, Real Estate, EHS, Quality, IT, Design, Security, Engineering, Sourcing, Finance, Legal, and site leadership teams to ensure project success and regulatory compliance.
• Ensure alignment with corporate policies, commissioning requirements, qualification standards, and transition plans to Facility Operations.
• Support procurement activities including contract development, vendor selection, commercial negotiations, and change management processes.
• Facilitate stakeholder discussions, resolve issues, drive decisions, and maintain clear project communications.
• Conduct project site visits, contractor oversight activities, governance reviews, and stakeholder engagement activities as required.

Skills

Capital project management

Cross-functional leadership

Financial forecasting

Stakeholder management

Remote team leadership

Communication skills

Regulatory compliance

Facilities project mgmt

Contract management

Vendor coordination

Education

Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical)

Job description

Flexible Work Arrangement

Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Full time

R74725

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

Medtronic

At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Our Purpose

At Medtronic, our Facilities, Engineering, and Workplace teams are focused on delivering critical infrastructure and capital projects that enable our business to operate safely, efficiently, and in compliance with regulatory requirements. This role plays a key part in leading complex capital projects across facility infrastructure, manufacturing environments, laboratories, and workplace facilities, ensuring successful outcomes that support employees, customers, and patients around the world.

Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life Of:

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

• Lead projects through the full project lifecycle including business case development, programming, site selection, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, occupancy, and project closeout.

• Manage multiple capital projects simultaneously, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, quality, and safety objectives are achieved.

• Lead both remote and local project teams, driving alignment, accountability, and timely execution.

• Direct external design consultants, construction managers, contractors, and service providers to successfully deliver project objectives.

• Develop business cases and manage capital project budgets, risk assessments, expenditure forecasts, and financial performance reporting.

• Partner with Facilities Operations, Real Estate, EHS, Quality, IT, Design, Security, Engineering, Sourcing, Finance, Legal, and site leadership teams to ensure project success and regulatory compliance.

• Ensure alignment with corporate policies, commissioning requirements, qualification standards, and transition plans to Facility Operations.

• Support procurement activities including contract development, vendor selection, commercial negotiations, and change management processes.

• Facilitate stakeholder discussions, resolve issues, drive decisions, and maintain clear project communications.

• Conduct project site visits, contractor oversight activities, governance reviews, and stakeholder engagement activities as required.

Key Skills & Experience

• Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical), Construction Management, or a related discipline with 5 years of experience.

• Experience managing capital projects and programs involving facility infrastructure, engineering projects, manufacturing construction projects, laboratory projects, and/or corporate real estate and workplace projects.

• Mastery-level knowledge of facilities and construction project management methodologies and practices.

• Demonstrated leadership skills with experience managing complex, cross-functional, and multi-team initiatives.

• Strong financial acumen with experience developing cost estimates, managing capital and expense budgets, forecasts, and project status reporting.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills with the ability to influence outcomes.

• Experience supporting procurement strategies, contract development, vendor selection, commercial negotiations, and change management activities.

• Proven success leading remote teams while maintaining engagement, accountability, and project performance.

• Ability to facilitate effective discussions, ask probing questions, synthesize information, and communicate clearly to diverse audiences.

• Ability to travel up to 20% in support of project delivery, supplier management, stakeholder engagement, and site governance.

• Physical ability to walk stairs, climb ladders, navigate uneven terrain, and perform site walks that may require standing for extended periods

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience leading facility infrastructure projects within the medical technology, pharmaceutical, or semiconductor industries.

• Experience coordinating projects in manufacturing environments while minimizing operational disruption and downtime.

• Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, controls, and building infrastructure systems supporting complex manufacturing operations.

• Understanding of clean dry air systems, bulk gases, purified water systems, wastewater treatment/neutralization, emergency power generation, and UPS systems.

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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.

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.

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Ireland: 79,680.00 EUR - 119,520.00 EUR |

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.

Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.

We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

We change lives

Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team

With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world

• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities

• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first

Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies

No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world

Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care

Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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