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

The ACM OU is committed to excellence in innovation and commercialization to pursue our vision and long-term business growth. The ACM OU R&D 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.

The Advanced Manufacturing Engineer (AME) 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 plastic injection moulding, 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:

As our Senior Manufacturing Engineer, key responsibilities will include:

• 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 follow regulations

Key Skills & Experience  

• Bachelor’s degree required in Electrical, Mechanical, or Electromechanical
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years relevant experience in a similar role
• May have practical knowledge of project management, knowledge of equipment, facility, and process validations
• Experience with managing BOMs, DMRs, equipment and product 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 moulding
• Small tooling design and development and design of Experiments (DOE)
• Knowledge of drafting standards, fixtures, and tooling a plus
• Strong statistical skills using Minitab and 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  

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