Engineering Director

Medtronic • Brooklyn Center, 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. This role requires bold leadership to confront systemic healthcare challenges and bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide. As the Manufacturing Engineering Director, you will lead Manufacturing Engineering and Program Management to drive continuous improvement at the Brooklyn Center facility, which impacts 14 million patients annually. Medtronic emphasizes a sense of purpose and ownership, knowing that human lives are impacted by every decision. The company values in-person exchanges for professional growth and cross-functional collaboration, working onsite to engineer the extraordinary. Engineers are indispensable to achieving Medtronic's Mission, and the company empowers employees to apply existing skills and develop new ones through training, mentorship, and guidance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and minimum 10 years relevant manufacturing engineering experience with 7+ years of people management experience, OR Advanced degree with a minimum 8 years relevant manufacturing engineering experience with 7+ years of people management experience.
• Proven track record of strong relationships in a matrixed organizational structure, cross-functionally, with leadership and with direct labor/production staff.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of Qualification protocols – IQ/OQ/PQ.
• Demonstrated ability to lead in an FDA-regulated environment.
• Demonstrated change agent driving improvement in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost KPIs.
• Engineering Degree (preferably: Mechanical or Electrical Engineering).
• Green or Black Belt certification.
• Demonstrated experience managing large, complex transformation initiatives with high level of visibility and business criticality.
• Ability to lead, energize and influence change efforts at all levels of a complex organization.
• Hands-on experience managing cross-functional projects across businesses, sites, or regions.
• Experience with preventative/corrective action process.
• Experience working within a quality system or regulated industry with subsequent knowledge of appropriate documentation and or quality requirements.

Responsibilities

• Guide, deploy, and execute the Medtronic Performance System (MPS), our “one best way” methodology and tools that support our holistic operational excellence program.
• Oversee, manage, and optimize 24/7 manufacturing in wafer fab, assembly, and test.
• Develop a high-performance engineering team to efficiently drive continuous improvement.
• Hire, coach, develop, and performance manage talent within the department.
• Develop and execute multi-year roadmaps for wafer fab, assembly, and test aligned with needs.
• Collaborate with Design, Quality, Sourcing, Planning, Operations to achieve key process indicators.
• Interface with Senior Management to communicate/report progress on critical projects.
• Meet or exceed defined deliverables for Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost.
• Manage overall department budget.
• Identify, prioritize, and resource key projects to achieve significant scrap reduction.
• Provide technical oversight to resolve complex product and process issues.
• Lead the team to drive continuous improvement.
• Identify and deploy capital equipment ahead of demand.
• Partner with the Advanced Engineering Org to receive New Product Introduction (NPI) into production.
• Utilize methods and tools like DMAIC, Red X, KT to lead the organization to solve problems.
• Focus on achieving and maintaining high product quality and reliability for patients.
• Ensure the team is compliant with internal quality requirements.
• Ensure the team is compliant with internal and external quality standards.

Benefits

• 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: Director