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A Day in the Life

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The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for providing support for growth activity of automated assembly equipment in support of high-speed assembly, form-fill and seal packaging, vacuum chambers, and final packaging/labeling operations in a Clean Room environment under the site engineering for the sutures manufacturing growth team.

The Manufacturing Engineer will support strategic project initiatives of absorbable suture product finished goods and sub-assembly families with specific regard to equipment qualification, equipment upgrades, and implementing transformational technology changes into current process that directly improve OEE, output, yield, and cost savings opportunities. The Manufacturing Engineer will be a point of contact for Capital Equipment upgrades, process development and process validations of new and current automated equipment. Duties include participating in cross functional teams to accomplish project and site-specific goals.

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

• Design manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining and material handling.


• Design arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout.


• Lead and execute validation processes in new and current equipment (IQ,OQ,PQ).


• Develop, coordinate, and conduct technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs.


• Design sequence of operations and specifies procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance.


• Adapt machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions.


• May incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan.


• Inspect performance of machinery, equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency, and investigate and initiate corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure product quality.


• Develop manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control and may develop those techniques.


• Provide guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.


• Ensure processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.


• Key participant in DFMEA, PFMEA, Machine Risk Assessments, and CTQ processes assuring specifications are well-defined and documented.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree required


• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 0 years of experience

Nice to Have

• Experience with capital equipment acquisitions: Design Reviews, FAT, SATs.


• Strong communication, project management, and leadership skills


• Assist in creating equipment specifications to vendors for quoting automated and manual equipment.


• Solid organizational, functional coordination and presentation skills

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):$79,200.00 - $118,800.00

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.

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.

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