Principal Packaging Engineer
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 Help engineer packaging solutions that protect patients and power surgical care worldwide. In this role, you’ll lead the research, development, and design of advanced packaging systems for new and existing medical devices, with a primary focus on steam sterilization cases and trays. Your work will directly support life saving technologies by ensuring packaging solutions that are robust, compliant, efficient, and intuitive for end users in the operating room. You’ll serve as a packaging subject matter expert, influencing decisions from early concept through manufacturing scale up, while partnering closely with teams across R&D, Operations, Quality/Regulatory, Labeling, Tooling/Automation, Sourcing, Marketing, and surgical end users. Together, you’ll deliver innovative, best in class packaging solutions aligned with Medtronic’s strategic goals. You’ll also play a key role in advancing global packaging excellence, driving long term manufacturing efficiency, quality, and regulatory compliance across multiple sites. While this role is primarily focused on steam sterilization sets (cases and trays), it may also include opportunities to contribute to sterile and non sterile packaging development, offering variety and technical breadth. 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’re working a minimum of 4 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
- Bachelor’s Degree and 7+ years of Packaging Engineering experience OR Master’s Degree and 5+ years of experience OR PhD and 3+ years of experience
- Experience with and passion for Cases and Trays designed for Steam Sterilization
- Demonstrated mastery of core engineering principles and high-level CAD 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.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working in medical device or pharmaceutical industry
- Degree in Packaging Science, Mechanical Engineering, or Biomedical Engineering
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and testing of packaging systems and containers used to protect, handle, and present medical devices
- Define packaging specifications based on product needs, cost, regulatory requirements, and environmental risks such as moisture, temperature, corrosion, handling, and tampering
- Design package exteriors with consideration for usability, identification, aesthetics, printing, and manufacturability
- Collaborate cross‑functionally with R&D, Quality/Regulatory, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Marketing, and surgical staff to capture functional requirements and real‑world workflows
- Apply working knowledge of FDA, OUS regulations, ISO, and ASTM standards related to medical device packaging and labeling
- Manage or contribute to GMP documentation, Design History Files (DHFs), and change control activities
- Support prototype builds and production line development in manufacturing facilities as needed
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)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
