Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, United States of America, United States of America
Onsite
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.
As the Manufacturing Engineering Director, you have the following responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership and Operational Oversight
Guide, deploy, and execute the Medtronic Performance System (MPS), our “one best way” methodology and tools that support our holistic operational excellence program.
Oversee, manage, and optimize 24/7 manufacturing in wafer fab, assembly, and test.
Develop a high-performance engineering team to efficiently drive continuous improvement.
Hire, coach, develop, and performance manage talent within the department.
Develop and execute multi-year roadmaps for wafer fab, assembly, and test aligned with needs.
Collaborate with Design, Quality, Sourcing, Planning, Operations to achieve key process indicators.
Interface with Senior Management to communicate/report progress on critical projects.
Meet or exceed defined deliverables for Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost.
Manage overall department budget.
Engineering and Technical Management
Identify, prioritize, and resource key projects to achieve significant scrap reduction.
Provide technical oversight to resolve complex product and process issues.
Lead the team to drive continuous improvement.
Identify and deploy capital equipment ahead of demand.
Partner with the Advanced Engineering Org to receive New Product Introduction (NPI) into production.
Utilize methods and tools like DMAIC, Red X, KT to lead the organization to solve problems.
Quality and Compliance
Focus and achieve high product quality and reliability for our patients.
Ensure the team is compliant with internal quality requirements.
Ensure the team is compliant with internal and external quality standards.
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.
Bachelor’s degree and minimum 10 years relevant manufacturing engineering experience with 7+ years of people management experience, OR Advanced degree with a minimum 8 years relevant manufacturing engineering experience with 7+ years of people management experience.
Proven track record of strong relationships in a matrixed organizational structure, cross-functionally, with leadership and with direct labor/production staff.
Nice to Have:
Understanding of Qualification protocols – IQ/OQ/PQ.
Demonstrated ability to lead in an FDA-regulated environment.
Demonstrated change agent driving improvement in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost KPIs.
Engineering Degree (preferably: Mechanical or Electrical Engineering).
Green or Black Belt certification.
Demonstrated experience managing large, complex transformation initiatives with high level of visibility and business criticality.
Ability to lead, energize and influence change efforts at all levels of a complex organization.
Hands-on experience managing cross-functional projects across businesses, sites, or regions.
Experience with preventative/corrective action process.
Experience working within a quality system or regulated industry with subsequent knowledge of appropriate documentation and or quality requirements.
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 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.
U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship
At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.
Join us in our mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life—where your unique background and perspective are valued.
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).This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico. Base pay is based on numerous factors and may vary by job-related knowledge, skills, experience, etc. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).
Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.
Further details are available at the link below:
Medtronic benefits and compensation plans
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.
If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. (“Medtronic”) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
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