OpEx Manufacturing Technician II
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 Careers that Change Lives 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. Make an impact by joining the Operations team at the Brooklyn Center Site (MECC). This position blends your technical engineering skills with your analytical acumen to solve complex operations problems that drive capacity improvement, space and line optimization, cost reductions, operational efficiencies, all to provide a competitive advantage to the site and Medtronic. Take your career to the next level while supporting our mission to “alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.” A Day in the Life In this role, you will be focused on accelerating performance at our Brooklyn Center Site, through the deployment of the Medtronic Performance System (MPS). This will be accomplished through coaching and training teams, and employees on the tools and elements that make up MPS. You will deploy and sustain continuous improvement programs around Zero Loss, Strategy Excellence, Innovation Excellence, Value Stream Excellence, Maintenance Excellence, and Improvement Excellence with A3/DMAIC thinking and Lean Sigma toolsets, to support our growth. At Medtronic we bring bold ideas forward with seed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We're working a minimum of 5 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.
Requirements
- Requires high school diploma, or equivalent
Nice To Haves
- Lean and/or Six Sigma certification or training
- Proficiency in process mapping/value stream mapping
- Prior Continuous Improvement experience
- Communication & collaboration skills
- 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
- Develop, implement, and sustain process improvement initiatives utilizing Six Sigma methodologies.
- Guide and mentor the use of Medtronic Performance System tools and methodologies
- Deploy and sustain daily management systems (tier boards)
- Provide training and support to employees on continuous improvement tools and techniques
- Introduce and educate employees on the 5S methodology, while conducting regular audits to ensure adherence to 5S standards and pinpoint opportunities for improvement
- Create and maintain value stream maps to identify waste and opportunities for process improvements
- Participate in, support, and lead kaizen events to drive rapid improvements in processes and operations.
- Collaborate with team members to implement lean tools and methodologies such as root cause analysis (5-why) and standard work
- Establish and maintain performance metrics to measure program success.
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)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
