Prin Product Engineer

Medtronic•North Haven, CT

1d•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. Medtronic leads global healthcare technology and boldly attacks the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary. This role is part of the Technical Specialist Career Stream, an individual contributor with responsibility to advance existing technology or introduce new technology and therapies. The position involves formulating, delivering, and/or managing assigned projects and collaborating with stakeholders to achieve desired results. It may also involve mentoring colleagues or directing the work of lower-level professionals. The majority of time is dedicated to delivering R&D, systems, or initiatives related to new technologies or therapies, from design to implementation, while adhering to policies and utilizing specialized knowledge and skills. The role is recognized as an expert, managing large projects or processes with considerable autonomy and limited managerial oversight. It contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy, with a significant impact on work group results, and may manage projects that extend beyond the immediate job area. The problems encountered are difficult, moderately complex, and undefined, requiring detailed information gathering, analysis, and investigation. The engineer develops solutions to moderately complex problems and makes moderate to significant improvements to processes, systems, or products independently to enhance performance. Communication involves representing the organization as a primary contact for specific projects and initiatives, interacting with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels, and influencing decision-making.

Requirements

Requires a Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR PhD with 3 years relevant experience
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

Responsible for production support engineering with respect to testing methods, procedures, and problems
Responsible for device specification and yield problems
Responsible for minor redesign of devices and masks
Responsible for analysis of customer returns
Responsible for supplier related engineering changes and optimizing device production relative to cost constraints
Assumes responsibility for device and/or internally produced or externally purchased components after transfer into high-volume production
Usually responsible for entire device manufacturing operations other than wafer fabrication
May assist customer in device usage problems or customer testing of complex devices
Formulates, delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results
May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals
Delivering R&D, systems or initiatives related to new technologies or therapies – from design to implementation - while adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills
Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower level specialists
Contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results
May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area
Develops solutions to moderately complex problems, and/or makes moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or products independently to enhance performance of job area
Implements solutions to problems
Represents organization as a primary contact for specific projects and initiatives; communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels
May negotiate with others to reach understanding or agreement, and influence decision-making
Typically provides guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area
Typically manages major / moderately complex projects, involving delegation of work and review of work products, at times acting as a team leader

Benefits

Competitive Salary
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 (Medtronic Incentive Plan - MIP)
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)