Senior Manufacturing Engineer

at  Medtronic

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
Ear Nose Throat: The Ear, Nose, and Throat Operating Unit is a global leader and trusted partner for innovative ENT solutions that improve patient access, outcomes, and customer satisfaction. We partner with the ENT community to understand the needs of customers and patients, delivering solutions that improve lives as we embody a culture of accountability and trust. Over the past 20 years, we have become the global market leader in three key segments – image-guided surgery, intraoperative nerve monitoring, and powered surgical instruments. We continue to launch valuable ENT solutions in these areas as well as tissue health and balloon sinus dilation.
The Senior Manufacturing Engineer will draft, approve, execute, and maintain relevant documentation such as manufacturing work instructions, specifications, drawings, process sheets, FMEAs, and facilitate validation protocols as necessary to support implementation of equipment projects, as well as new process integrations. You will lead and establish complex project plans to ensure deliverables are completed to customer’s expectations, using project management tools (e.g., Project Plan, Risk Analysis, etc.) using experience in complex root cause analysis, corrective actions and driving CAPAs to closure. You will report to the Site - Sr Engineering Manager and will act as a technical liaison between functional groups while training, developing and mentoring junior engineers and technicians to use good engineering design practices. Manage required builds for new product development in a pilot or production setting, including training of operators, coordination with production planning, preparing manufacturing procedures and work orders, ordering materials, installing fixtures and equipment, supervising builds, and troubleshooting assembly issues.
This is an onsite position at our Menlo Park, CA location
A Day in the Life
Daily activities will employ DMAIC, Kaizen events, Gemba walks, and other appropriate methodologies to define problem statements, conduct voice of the customer/business, establish current state, identify waste, propose future state, manage stakeholders, and utilize change management to ensure effective adoption of improvements by end users. Implementing innovations into practice for continuous improvement and cost savings initiatives, as well as supporting Maintenance of Business activities focused on the manufacture of drug eluting stents for the sinus supporting the ENT business.

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

• Designs and maintains manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining and material handling.
• Designs arrangement of production lines 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 are in compliance with regulations.
• Provides input and insights to engineering team recruiting activity.
• Provides input and expertise to budgeting and work planning activity.
• May lead multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• Leads Kaizen events for achieving stepwise improvements in manufacturing.
• May lead engineering team as backup to manager.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements and your permanent address are evident on your resume.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or Technical Sciences.
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant Engineering experience within a manufacturing environment, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant Engineering experience within a manufacturing environment.

Nice to Have: Preference will be given to applicants who possess the following skills, experiences, and certifications.

• Experience in medical device manufacturing or manufacturing in a highly regulated industry/environment.
• Advanced degree in Engineering.
• Experience working in a regulated environment including compliance with 21 CFR 820, 210/211 and ISO 13485 including GMP.
• Experience with micro-plume spray coating.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified- Black Belt Certified a plus.
• CAPA experience.
• Versed in Minitab
• Demonstrated problem solving abilities and technical competency.
• Prior knowledge and experience in Lean Six Sigma
• Prior knowledge and experience in Solidworks in drafting manufacturing fixtures, engineering drawings, line layouts, etc.
• Demonstrated communication skills in presenting information effectively and collaborating with different cross functional groups to achieve work objectives.

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.
Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$109,600.00 - $164,400.00
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).
Medtronic benefits and compensation plans
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 90,000+ 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.
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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.
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Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Designs and maintains manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining and material handling.
• Designs arrangement of production lines 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 are in compliance with regulations.
• Provides input and insights to engineering team recruiting activity.
• Provides input and expertise to budgeting and work planning activity.
• May lead multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• Leads Kaizen events for achieving stepwise improvements in manufacturing.
• May lead engineering team as backup to manager

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements and your permanent address are evident on your resume.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or Technical Sciences.
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant Engineering experience within a manufacturing environment, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant Engineering experience within a manufacturing environment