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

This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.

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

Shift Week 1: 6:00am-6:00pm (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)

Week 2: 6:00am-6:00pm (Saturday, Sunday, Thursday, Friday)

• May develop, evaluate, implement and maintain technical quality assurance and control systems or reliability systems and standards pertaining to materials, techniques, or company products.
• Oversees the investigation and evaluation of existing technologies.
• Guides the conceptualization of new methodologies, materials, machines, processes or products.
• Manages feasibility studies of the design to determine if capable of functioning as intended.
• Organizes the coordination of activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery.
• Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
• Evaluates, selects and orders equipment and equipment replacement parts that are most appropriate and cost effective for the manufacture of company products.
• Maintains current records on equipment manufacturers' technical notices, upgrades and safety issues.
• Establishes programs and solutions for increasing uptime and minimize equipment problems that affect the manufacturing process.
• Defines and writes preventative maintenance schedules to improve equipment performance and reduce downtime.
• Designs and propose equipment modifications, upgrades, and maintenance improvements of manufacturing equipment.
• Supervises maintenance manufacturing equipment technicians.
• Coordinates with the manufacturing area the equipment maintenance activities.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor Engineering Degree
• Requires a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 1 year of relevant experience.

Nice to Have:

• Good managerial and communication skills.
• Regulated industry experience (Medical devices, Pharma)
• Solid technical understanding of engineering principles and procedures.
• Proficient in the use of mechanical engineering software (AutoCAD, SOLIDWORKS).
• Automated manufacturing equipment maintenance experience.
• Technical supervision experience.
• Bilingual (English and Spanish).

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 representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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
 

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.