At Medtronic you can begin a life-long 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

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

At our R&D Department, in Medtronic Athlone we focus on providing stable, flexible and cost-effective solutions to enhance our processes and systems that produce the highest quality products through the deployment of innovative engineering projects and solutions. Reporting to the R&D manager, as R&D Test Technician, you will have responsibility to develop and validate new test methods and perform Design Verification & Design Validation activities to ensure product design solutions meet pre-determined specifications and intended use.  

Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life Of:

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Perform functional and dimensional testing of products, using custom test methods and off the shelf equipment to ensure product designs meet pre-determined specifications.
• Develop and validate new test methods using Measurement System Analysis Tools to ensure all measurement systems are suitable for intended use.
• Review and analyse test results using Minitab to ensure design solutions are robust and capable.
• Complete test reports to summarize results for the project team.
• Provide support to Calibration Engineer on equipment calibration regarding scheduling, issue resolution etc.
• Support purchasing of Lab supplies/consumables and implement 5s practices.
• Support shipment of samples etc to global team members.

Key Skills & Experience

• The successful candidate will possess a minimum Level 6 Certificate/Qualification in Engineering, Polymer Science, Quality or a related discipline.
• 2 years experience in a similar role.
• Ability to work on own initiative, with attention to detail and tenacity to remain at tasks is essential.
• A good understanding of Design History File Management, Design Verification and Validation would be a distinct advantage for this role.
• Knowledge of MiniTab and Agile PLM software an advantage.
• Skilled in the use of Solidworks or other 3D Modelling software is beneficial.
• Excellent written, documentation, and oral communication skills and are fluent in English, both written and spoken. 

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.
 

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