Design Technician V

Medtronic • Brooklyn Park, MN

2d • Onsite

About The Position

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 Engineers and Scientists create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Join us to make a lasting impact. Help bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide. Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be. In this Design Technician role, you will be part of a dedicated and high-performing R&D team at Medtronic Cardiac Surgery in Brooklyn Park, MN. The R&D team supports the design, development, and commercialization of new and exciting technologies serving our clinician customers. You will work as a key member on small and large technical teams, helping to develop and release new products as well as improving on existing ones. 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.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent and vocational or technical education or certification.
• Requires a minimum of 15 years of relevant experience

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated mechanical aptitude – practical hands-on experience in machining / fabrication and assembly techniques
• CAD expertise including advanced modules and methods – PTC Creo and SolidWorks
• Proficient at creating detailed mechanical drawings for components and assemblies per ASME Y14.5 drafting standards and in compliance with ISO standards
• Experience in the design and development of complex mechanical devices or equipment
• Experience using productivity tools, especially Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, Adobe Illustrator, SharePoint, etc.
• Product Data Management experience with Windchill PDMLink
• Experience with geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) best practices
• Experience working within a multi-functional team environment
• A track record in medical device design and implementation into manufacturing
• Knowledge of Design for Reliability (DFR), Design for Reliability and Manufacturability (DRM), Design for Serviceability, Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), Design for Lean Sigma (DFLS) and/or robust design practices
• Experience in Agile change order creation and release to implement or modify design documentation (BOMs, specifications, drawings)
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Development team members to develop new products and processes 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 supply availability
• Gather information, prepare original designs, perform tolerance and finite element analysis, present design proposals, negotiate performance/cost/risk/schedule tradeoffs, prepare and release formal documentation/drawings
• Collaborate with manufacturing / contract manufacturers to ensure designs are robust and manufacturable
• Use GD&T and other appropriate methods to communicate design intent and promote design reliability and manufacturability
• Prioritize and manage multiple concurrent projects and work tasks to help meet challenging deadlines
• Communicate with stakeholders, obtain stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems
• Develop and improve design environment standard work and best practices to increase design productivity, reliability, manufacturability and 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: High school or GED