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
As the Sr. Lean Sigma Manager in our Ponce, PR manufacturing site, you will lead, deploy, and implement Lean Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement throughout the facility. You will initiate deployment activities within the site to ensure that improvement actions are directly linked to the strategic and tactical objectives of the operating unit, emphasizing the efficiency and effectiveness of manufacturing and business processes, and enabling breakthrough process changes and improvements. You will perform value assessments identifying key areas for improvement opportunities and create improvement plans that meet business goals; lead various Lean and Six Sigma projects; assess the status of processes using roadmaps to plan for the future of manufacturing, with associated milestones in line with plant maturity. You will coach and mentor multidisciplinary teams on manufacturing strategies specific to Medtronic Performance System; coordinate strategy deployment system and organizational alignment to accelerate improvement; participate on the leadership team of a Medtronic manufacturing plant, with associated quality, capacity, and financial planning process; deploy continuous improvement methodologies to include application across a value stream, including functions of safety, operations, engineering, quality, and facilities.

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

• Facilitates and coaches improvement teams.


• Establishes and maintains performance metrics to measure program success.


• Installs process excellence supports for program governance, project reviews, communications, training, certifications and rewards.


• Install process excellence supports for program governance, project reviews, communications, training, certifications, and rewards


• Develop, implement, and sustain process improvement initiatives using the Medtronic Performance System (MPS).


• Creates and maintains a 1-to-3-year cost-saving pipeline to drive cost competitiveness.


• Define improvement projects aligned with business strategies.


• Analyze improvement programs and potential results.


• Accountable for financial analysis and planning.


• Demonstrates lean, six sigma, team building, effective communication, and project management skills to perform essential job functions.


• Define, design, and implement continuous improvement programs to ensure programs are integrated vertically and horizontally across the organization.


• Facilitate and coach improvement teams.


• Establish and maintain performance metrics to measure program success.


• Develops metrics that provide data for process measurement, identifying indicators for future improvement opportunities.


• Deliver presentations and training courses.


• Surveys and analyzes best practices for techniques and processes.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree


• and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience.

Nice to Have:

• Certified Master Black Belt


• Experience with policy deployment and tier management


• Solid understanding of Engineering, Project Management, Lean Principles, Six Sigma, and financial acumen.


• Medical device manufacturing experience


• Project Management Professional Certified


• Ability to manage cross-functionally with direct and indirect influence.


• Ability to coach and facilitate individually and at the large-scale level.


• Ability to manage multiple projects.


• Proven skills working with cross-functional teams and presentation skills.


• Experience with the deployment of lean manufacturing


• Ability to directly lead and/or coordinate high-impact process improvement projects.


• Validation Experience


• Proven experience working capital investment projects.


• Strong financial knowledge


• Bachelor In Engineering

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 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.

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.