Lead Manufacturing Engineer: Process Excellence & Scale-Up

Medtronic plc; Humacao (PR); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic Humacao, Puerto Rico is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to lead process development, optimization, and continuous improvement across manufacturing operations. You will design processes, layouts, and validation strategies to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality production.

You will partner with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and R&D to drive manufacturing excellence, scale up new products, and implement advanced technologies and lean methods.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering and 4+ years of relevant experience, or a master's with 2+ years.
• Engineering bachelor degree required.
• Experience in process validation and manufacturing scale-up is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Designs manufacturing processes, procedures, and layouts for assemblies and equipment.
• Lead process development, optimization, and SPC-driven improvements.
• Partner with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and R&D to ensure compliant, high-quality production.

Skills

Manufacturing process development

Process optimization

Continuous improvement

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Creo

AutoCAD

PartMaker

Minitab

JMP

Power BI

Python

PLC programming

CNC programming

Job description

Medtronic Humacao, Puerto Rico is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to lead process development, optimization, and continuous improvement across manufacturing operations. You will design processes, layouts, and validation strategies to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality production.

You will partner with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and R&D to drive manufacturing excellence, scale up new products, and implement advanced technologies and lean methods.