Senior Engineering Program Manager - Onsite

Medtronic; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic plc in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is seeking a Senior Engineering Program Manager to lead cross-functional operations for new product introductions within the Pelvic Health business. This onsite role partners with product development, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams to ensure manufacturing readiness and successful product launches.

You will manage schedules, risks, and budgets across the product development lifecycle, applying DFSS, Lean, and Six Sigma methodologies to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field required.
• 7+ years of engineering, operations, manufacturing, or program management experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional product development or manufacturing transfer.
• Experience with regulated industries and quality systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional Operations teams to deliver new product introduction milestones.
• Represent Operations to product development core teams and integrate operational requirements.
• Develop and manage project plans, timelines, budgets, risks, and performance metrics.
• Define manufacturing and supply chain strategies, capacity planning, and make-versus-buy decisions.
• Drive design transfer activities, manufacturing scale-up plans, validation strategies, and launch deliverables.
• Coordinate development and launch builds across manufacturing value streams while monitoring schedule performance, yield targets, and operational risks.
• Ensure compliance with quality system requirements, design history documentation, and regulatory submission support related to operations activities.
• Apply Design for Reliability, Design for Manufacturability, Lean Manufacturing, Design for Six Sigma, and related methodologies to improve product and process performance.

Skills

Engineering

Operations

Project management

Supply chain

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

PMP certification

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 7 Nov 2026

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

The Pelvic Health Operating Unit develops therapies that help patients manage conditions affecting bladder and bowel control through implantable neuromodulation technologies. We work closely with product development, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and regulatory teams to launch new products and maintain a reliable global manufacturing network.

Check us out on LinkedIn: Medtronic Pelvic Health.

This position is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and follows an onsite work arrangement. The role partners with global cross‑functional teams and manufacturing sites to drive operational readiness and execution for new product introductions. Travel is not required for this position.

The Senior Engineering Program Manager serves as the Core Team Operations Representative (CTOR) and primary Operations interface to product development teams within the Pelvic Health Operating Unit. This role is responsible for leading cross‑functional operations activities that support new product introduction programs, ensuring manufacturing readiness, supply chain preparedness, quality compliance, and the successful transfer of products into commercial production. This role aligns operations, manages schedule, risk, cost, capacity, and execution across the product development lifecycle.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional Operations teams to deliver new product introduction milestones, manufacturing readiness, and commercialization objectives.
• Represent Operations as the primary interface to product development core teams and ensure operational requirements are incorporated into program decisions.
• Develop and manage operations project plans, timelines, budgets, dependencies, risks, and performance metrics throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Define manufacturing and supply chain strategies, including site selection, make-versus-buy decisions, capacity planning, contract manufacturing scope, and business continuity considerations.
• Drive completion of design transfer activities, manufacturing scale‑up plans, validation strategies, and operational deliverables required for product launch.
• Coordinate development and launch builds across manufacturing value streams while monitoring schedule performance, yield targets, and operational risks.
• Ensure compliance with quality system requirements, design history documentation, and regulatory submission support related to operations activities.
• Apply Design for Reliability, Design for Manufacturability, Lean Manufacturing, Design for Six Sigma, and related methodologies to improve product and process performance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of engineering, operations, manufacturing, supply chain, or program management experience OR Master's degree with 5+ years of engineering, operations, manufacturing, supply chain, or program management experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects involving product development, manufacturing transfer, or new product introduction.
• Experience managing project schedules, risks, budgets, and operational performance metrics.
• Experience working within regulated industries and quality management systems.
• Experience influencing stakeholders and leading matrixed teams without direct authority.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience serving as a Core Team Operations Representative (CTOR) or operations lead for medical device product development programs.
• Experience with manufacturing process validation, capacity planning, and design transfer activities.
• Experience applying Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), Lean Manufacturing, Design for Manufacturability and Assembly (DFMA), or Reliability Engineering methodologies.
• Knowledge of medical device regulations, Design History Files, and commercialization requirements.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and/or advanced degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, or Business.

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are r