Principal Maintenance Excellence Engineer - 12 month contract

GAL Medtronic Vascular Galway Unlimited Company; Parkmore; On-site; EUR 81,000 - 122,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic is seeking a Principal Maintenance Work Management Engineer to support global CMMS deployment in EMEA and APAC. The role requires leading maintenance process improvements, site transitions, data migrations, and cross-functional collaboration with PMO, Change Management, QMS, and IT teams.

The position emphasizes standardised work, system adoption post go-live, and delivering value across manufacturing sites while upholding Medtronic’s purpose and patient-first focus.

Qualifications

• Minimum NFQ Level 8 Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience in Maintenance, Engineering, Reliability, or related discipline OR advanced degree and 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong experience in maintenance work management processes (planning, scheduling, execution, close-out)
• Practical experience working with CMMS or Enterprise Asset Management systems
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Experience working in cross-functional, project-driven environments

Responsibilities

• Support Site Transitions: provide expertise to manufacturing sites transitioning to the Enterprise CAMS platform.
• Current-State Discovery: assess existing maintenance practices and identify gaps to the future-state model.
• Future-State Enablement: clarify roles, responsibilities, and behaviours across maintenance teams.
• CMMS SME Support: demonstrate CMMS functionality with practical use cases.
• Stakeholder Engagement: collaborate with maintenance, engineering, operations, and leadership to communicate changes and adoption benefits.
• Data Migration Support: assist global teams with data migration and provide maintenance context for asset structures and plans.
• Training Reinforcement: reinforce concepts with practical examples and on-site sessions.
• Hypercare Support: provide post-go-live support, issue triage, and adoption coaching.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: work with PMO, Change Management, Data Migration, QMS, Training, and IT teams.
• Continuous Improvement: identify deployment improvements and capture lessons learned for future waves.
• Travel: Up to 25%

Skills

Maintenance

CMMS

Stakeholder engagement

Cross-functional collaboration

Data migration

Education

NFQ Level 8 Bachelor’s degree

Tools

eMaint

Maximo

SAP PM

Infor EAM

Job description

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 Job Description 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 The Enterprise Maintenance Excellence (EMEx) function at Medtronic plc is part of the Operations Innovation (OI) Group and focuses on optimising the full equipment lifecycle - from development through to decommissioning - through standardised work and engineering excellence. As part of this, EMEx is deploying a global Computerised Asset Management System (CAMS) and standardised Work Management Process to enable consistent maintenance practices, improve data quality, and support data-driven decision-making across the enterprise. We are seeking a Principal Maintenance Work Management Engineer to support global CMMS deployment in EMEA and APAC Regions. This role will act as a senior maintenance process and system Subject Matter Expert (SME), working with sites to understand current maintenance practices, support adoption of the future-state model, and enable sustainable process and system adoption post go-live.

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. Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life Of

Support Site Transitions: Provide expertise to manufacturing sites transitioning from legacy CMMS systems to the Enterprise CAMS platform, supporting adoption of standardised maintenance work management processes.

Current-State Discovery: Engage with site teams to assess existing maintenance practices, including work identification, planning, scheduling, execution, and close-out, identifying gaps to the future-state model.

Future-State Enablement: Support sites in understanding the global maintenance work management process, including changes to roles, responsibilities, and expected behaviours across maintenance teams.

CMMS SME Support: Confidently navigate and demonstrate the CMMS to support deployment activities, translating system functionality into practical, real-world maintenance use cases.

Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with maintenance, engineering, operations, and leadership teams to communicate what is changing, why it matters, and how to support successful adoption.

Data Migration Support: Collaborate with global program teams and site stakeholders to support data migration activities, providing maintenance context for asset structures, maintenance plans, and master data.

Training Reinforcement: Partner with system training teams to reinforce key concepts through practical examples, process walkthroughs, and on-site engagement.

Hypercare Support: Support post-go-live activities, including issue triage, adoption coaching, and reinforcement of standardised processes and system usage.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with PMO, Change Management, Data Migration, QMS, Training, and IT teams to support successful deployment and resolve site-specific challenges.

Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve deployment approaches, strengthen adoption, and capture lessons learned for future deployment waves.

Travel: Up to 25%

Key Skills & Experience Must Haves

• Minimum NFQ Level 8 Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience in Maintenance, Engineering, Reliability, or related discipline OR advanced degree and 5+ years of relevant experience
• Strong experience in maintenance work management processes (planning, scheduling, execution, close-out)
• Practical experience working with CMMS or Enterprise Asset Management systems
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Experience working in cross-functional, project-driven environments

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting CMMS or asset management system deployments or transformations
• Familiarity with systems such as eMaint, Maximo, SAP PM, Infor EAM, or similar
• Experience in regulated manufacturing environments
• Understanding of maintenance-related QMS requirements
• Experience supporting data migration or master data validation
• Familiarity with change management principles
• Experience supporting hypercare, go-live, or user adoption activities
• Exposure to Lean, reliability excellence, or continuous improvement initiatives

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: 81,120.00 EUR - 121,680.00 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 life. 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. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will… 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

Equality & Diversity

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 settingis 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. This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here. For updates on job applications, please go to the candidate login page and sign in to check your application status. If you need assistance completing your application please email [e-mail] To request removal of your personal information from your systems please email [e-mail]