Operations Pre Market Engineering Director - CardioVascular Surgery

Medtronic plc; Galway; Hybrid; EUR 125,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP)

Long-term incentive plan

Job summary

Medtronic plc in Galway, Ireland, seeks an Engineering Director to lead Operations strategy across new product development and commercial lifecycle, directing global teams to meet cost, quality, supply, and business goals.

The role partners with Core Teams, CTORs, and advanced manufacturing to scale manufacturing, design for reliability, and drive manufacturing strategy, with up to 25% travel and a commitment to growth and impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of relevant experience, with 7+ years in managerial roles.
• Advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience and 7+ years in management.
• Broad management knowledge to lead multiple job areas and align with company objectives.
• Autonomy to manage departments or regions with multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Plan, direct and implement operations strategy to deliver scalable supply chain for new products.
• Ensure several new product development programs meet launch goals for quality, scalability, schedule and budget.
• Lead Core Team Ops Representatives (CTORs) to build operations strategy for new products.
• Lead advanced manufacturing engineers to design scalable manufacturing processes for new product development.
• Deploy design for reliability and manufacturing strategies for successful product launches.
• Direct development of new concepts from initial design to market release.
• Oversee feasibility studies to verify functional capability of designs.
• Maintain documentation across all phases of process development.
• Select, develop and evaluate personnel to ensure efficient operation.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

10+ years experience

7+ years management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

Job description

Flexible Work Arrangement

Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Full time

R77776

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

CardioVascular Surgery is a vital component of the Medtronic Cardiovascular portfolio consisting of Aortic and Cardiac Surgery therapies. Aortic therapies treat thoracic and abdominal aneurysms, where Medtronic has led the market with durable products and will develop more products to treat complex endovascular conditions to serve more patients. Cardiac Surgery therapies offer a broad range of products to support both minimally invasive and open surgical valve replacement and valve repair procedures, along with left atrial appendage clipping. This includes surgical solutions, ablation tools, blood oxygenation and circulation management systems.

The Engineering Director serves as the primary Operations interface to cross functional product development Core Teams and is a highly visible leadership role responsible for shaping and executing Operations strategy across new product development, and commercial lifecycle phases, leading global teams to deliver product outcomes aligned with cost, quality, supply, and business objectives.

Come for a job, stay for a career!

• Plans, directs and implements operations strategy to deliver a scalable supply chain for new products
• Responsible for ensuring multiple new product development programs can meet operations launch goals including quality, scalability, schedule and budget.
• Leads a team of Core Team Ops Representatives (CTOR's) who will build the operations strategy for new products
• Leads a team of advanced manufacturing engineers responsible for engineering scalable manufacturing processes for new product development
• Understands and can deploy design for reliability and manufacturing strategy to ensure new product launches meet quality and scalability goals
• Guides the conceptualization of new methodologies, materials, machines, processes.
• Directs the development of new concepts from initial design to market release
• Oversees feasibility studies of the design to determine if capable of functioning as intended
• Oversees documentation maintenance throughout all phases of process development
• Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function

Key Skills & Experience

• Requires a bachelor's degree and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience with 7+ years of managerial experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience with 7+ years of managerial experience
• Requires broad management and leadership knowledge to lead multiple job areas, and detailed functional and operational expertise
• Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function
• Autonomy: Manages department (s) or region that includes multiple teams led by managers and / or supervisors
• Organizational Impact: Leads the development of the strategy for own department or business area, ensuring links to the company's aims and objectives
• Management authority to make large business decisions and some strategic decisions
• Decisions impact the financial performance, employees, or public image of the operational unit and/or company
• Typically has budget or P&L accountability for a department, broad functional area or geography
• Innovation and Complexity: Drives innovation across the business area, encouraging best practice and knowledge sharing
• Up to 25% Travel Requirement as needed

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: 124,800.00 EUR - 187,200.00 EUR |

The final salary within this range will be determined based on objective, job-related criteria, including relevant experience, skills and qualifications, in accordance with our compensation framework.

• This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
• This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.

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.

• **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.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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