Design Technician III

Medtronic • Fridley, MN

11d • Onsite

About The Position

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 31 Dec 2025 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 In this exciting Design Technician role, you will be part of the dedicated, experienced and high-performing Engineering Development Services (EDS) team at Medtronic Rice Creek Central in Fridley, MN. The EDS team supports the design, development, and production of tooling and molds used in implantable devices for a variety of global Medtronic businesses. In this role you will gain experience with products across Medtronic’s portfolio, supporting your development and growth. You will work as a key member on small and large technical teams, helping to develop and release new and improvements on existing manufacturing tooling designs. At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We are working onsite a minimum of 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This role will require less than 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects. A career at Medtronic is like no other. We’re purposeful. We’re committed. And we’re driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of people worldwide. You can grow your career with us; we hope you’ll consider joining our team!

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience and may require vocational or technical education or certification in addition to prior work experience

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated mechanical aptitude – practical “hands on” experience – machining/fabrication, construction, assembly, mechanic, crafting, etc.
• CAD expertise, including advanced modules and methods (detailing, assembly, surfacing, optimization, FEA, etc.) – PTC Creo Parametric (preferred) and/or 3DS SolidWorks
• Proficient at creating detailed mechanical drawings for piece parts and assemblies per ASME Y14.5 drafting standards and in compliance with ISO standards
• Experience in technical writing and presenting
• Associate Mechanical Design (or similar) degree OR Bachelor’s Mechanical Engineering
• Comfort with personal productivity tools, especially Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, Adobe Illustrator, SharePoint, WIKI, etc.
• Product Data Management experience with Windchill PDMLink, for use with Creo Parametric/ProE.
• Experience with geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)
• Experience with advanced CAD modeling, predictive analysis, and documentation concepts – top down design, model-based definition (MBD), design optimization, finite element analysis (FEA), tolerance analysis, requirements management
• Experience in manufacturing and/or design departments – materials, manufacturing processes, prototyping methods, tooling/equipment design, quality-driven/regulated industry
• Experience with Windchill (document management and ECR/ECO)

Responsibilities

• Partner with new product/process development or continuous improvement teams to design and document manual/semi-automated manufacturing tooling, using the latest 3D solid modeling CAD design tools and best practices
• Develop design criteria with engineering, manufacturing, tooling, sourcing, supplier stakeholders to optimize specification control, manufacturability, and material availability
• Gather information, prepare original rough layouts and sketches, perform spatial/graphical analysis, tolerance and finite element analysis, present design proposals, negotiate performance/cost/risk/schedule tradeoffs, prepare and release formal documentation/drawings
• Prioritize and manage multiple concurrent projects and work tasks to help meet challenging deadlines
• Collaborate with manufacturing to ensure designs are robust and manufacturable
• Use geometric tolerancing and other appropriate methods to communicate design intent and promote design reliability and manufacturability
• Facilitate ECR/ECO’s to release and modify design documentation (BOM’s, specifications, drawings)
• Develop and improve design environment standard work and best practices to increase design productivity and/or reliability, manufacturability, cost

Benefits

• Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
• 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
• Simple Steps (global well-being program)
• 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)
• Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees