Engineering Program Manager

Medtronic • Grand Rapids, MI

4h • 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 Act boldly. Compete to win. Move with speed and decisiveness. Foster belonging. Deliver results…the right way. That’s the Medtronic Mindset — our cultural norms. Our brand is rooted in action, not just words. The Medtronic Mindset defines the expectations of our culture. Every person here plays a role in bringing it to life. We recognize your extraordinary potential to ensure future generations live better, healthier lives. The Grand Rapids site produces Cardiac Surgery devices distributed worldwide. As a Engineering Program Manager, you will oversee projects of varying scales aimed at sustaining and enhancing existing products or driving operations and process development for new products. Your responsibilities will include managing project timelines, budgets, and scopes for both sustaining business initiatives and process development efforts tied to new product launches.

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelors degree and minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's/Advanced Degree in Science, Engineering or Project Management
• Requires prior experience managing projects in a manufacturing environment
• Project Management Professional (PMI/PMP Certification) highly preferred
• Prior experience managing projects in a pharmaceutical, medical device, combination products, or other regulated industry
• Effective planning and organization skills including the proven ability to work against multiple objectives simultaneously
• Excellent knowledge of systems including Outlook, PowerPoint, MS Project, and Autocad
• Experience translating communicated ideas into robust project plans
• Ability to establish and maintain a trusted role with the various stakeholders in coordinating multiple functions across the organization

Responsibilities

• Lead a medium-scale program, impacting all corporate-level processes and procedures.
• Strong tactical decision-maker, handles unforeseen, unexplored issues
• Manage one or more medium-scale, established programs with generally-defined program plans and delivery methodologies
• Is accountable for overall program process, performance, and customer satisfaction
• Participate in establishing program objectives, timelines, milestones, and budgets
• Develop new policies and procedures that affect program management
• Typically has budget accountability for one or more programs
• Program decisions are generally recommended to higher level management
• Oversee and manage the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management.
• Manage the development and implementation process of a company's products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products.
• Review status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
• Monitor the project from initiation through delivery.
• Assess project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Develop mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.

Benefits

• Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
• We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
• 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