Principal Manufacturing Engineer

Medtronic; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Principal Manufacturing Engineer, where you will play a vital role in transitioning innovative products from R&D to manufacturing. You will design efficient manufacturing processes, collaborate closely with engineering teams, and ensure compliance with regulations. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to meaningful innovations that improve healthcare access and equity worldwide. Be part of a passionate team dedicated to solving real-world health challenges and making a difference in people's lives.

Benefits

Flexible Benefits Package

Short-term Incentive Plan

Competitive Salary

Career Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering or related field.
• Experience with product development and process validation.

Responsibilities

• Design manufacturing processes and production layouts.
• Collaborate with R&D to ensure product quality and efficiency.
• Implement Operational Excellence tools and maintain documentation.

Skills

Electrical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Project Management

Problem Solving

Root Cause Analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Advanced Degree in Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Minitab

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Visio

Job description

At Medtronic, you can begin a lifelong 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

The Principal Manufacturing Engineer will join the ACM OU OPS team to ensure a seamless transition of new products from R&D to Manufacturing. This role involves collaborating with R&D to understand product designs, developing manufacturing processes with a focus on enhancing line efficiency while managing risks. The AME will implement Operational Excellence tools and be responsible for creating and maintaining BOMs, work instructions, and DMRs.

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

A career at Medtronic is like no other. We are purposeful. We are committed. And we are driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions of people worldwide. We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

The Acute Care & Monitoring Operating Unit is committed to excellence in innovation and commercialization to pursue our vision and long-term business growth. The ACM OU organization is refining its product delivery, innovation, and commercialization approach to enable product leadership across all segments of our product portfolio. This will require enhancing our innovation processes, refining our design and delivery approaches to deliver an integrated and comprehensive portfolio that enables product development excellence across ACM.

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result — and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

Role Overview

The Principal Manufacturing Engineer will join the ACM OU OPS team to ensure a seamless transition of new products from R&D to Manufacturing. This role involves collaborating with R&D to understand product designs, developing manufacturing processes with a focus on and enhancing line efficiency while managing risks. The AME will implement Operational Excellence tools and be responsible for creating and maintaining BOMs, work instructions, and DMRs.

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A Day in The Life Of:

• Designs manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining, and material handling.
• Designs arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout.
• Designs sequence of operations and specifies procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance.
• Adapts machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions.
• May incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan.
• Inspects performance of machinery, equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency, and investigates and initiates corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure product quality.
• Develops manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control and may develop those techniques.
• Provides guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.
• Ensures processes and procedures comply with regulations.

Key Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree required in Electrical, Mechanical, Electromechanical or Automation Engineering.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with product development.
• Knowledge of equipment, facility, and process validations.
• Experience with managing BOMs and DMRs.
• Experience with equipment development and process validation (IQ/OQ/PQ).
• Project Management skills including Gantt charts, tracking financials of projects, updating key stakeholders, coordinating resources, and delivering results against project timelines and budgets.
• Experience working with suppliers including managing project deliverables.
• Team dynamic skills (communication, accountability, decision-making, feedback, meeting management, managing conflict).
• Problem solving and root cause analysis for improvements or non-conformances.

Nice to Have

• Medical Device experience.
• Experience with injection molding.
• Small tooling design and development.
• Design of Experiments (DOE).
• Verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Technical writing skills & updating documentation and procedures.
• Knowledge of drafting standards, fixtures, and tooling a plus.
• Strong statistical skills using Minitab.
• Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing experience preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Access, Excel, Project, Visio, and Word.
• Knowledge of capital project budgets including forecasting and quoting a plus.
• Experience developing statements of work, project charters, and project plans.

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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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.

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

About Medtronic

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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here