Quality Engineer II
About The Position
The Design Quality Engineer II in Released Product Engineering Quality for the Vessel Sealing and Dissection portfolio provides quality engineering support for post-market and sustaining engineering activities across released medical devices. The role helps ensure design changes, product improvements, and issue resolution activities comply with the Medtronic Quality Management System, applicable design control requirements, and product risk management expectations. The position partners with design engineering, manufacturing, regulatory, and other cross-functional teams to assess product changes, support documentation updates, contribute to risk evaluations, and help maintain the safety, effectiveness, reliability, and quality of released products throughout the product lifecycle. This is an individual-contributor role for a hands-on engineer who investigates problems, asks questions, and translates data into actionable improvements. The position works independently with general supervision on larger, moderately complex projects and assignments, contributes to project milestones, and may guide entry-level professionals or support-stream employees. It requires a bachelor's degree and at least two years of relevant experience, or a master's degree and no minimum relevant experience. The role is described as an office role, with regular independent mobility, computer use, and communication with peers and coworkers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree with a minimum of 0 years of relevant experience.
- For a bachelor's degree earned outside the United States, a degree satisfying the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
- Roles below the Principal level require unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.
- Ability to work independently with general supervision on larger, moderately complex projects or assignments.
- For office roles, regular independent mobility, computer interaction, and communication with peers and coworkers are required; reasonable accommodations may be made.
Responsibilities
- Develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality standards and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished products.
- Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
- Devise and implement methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating product and production-equipment precision and accuracy.
- Design or specify inspection and testing mechanisms and equipment; conduct quality assurance tests; and perform statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
- Ensure corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation complies with requirements.
- Support post-market and sustaining engineering activities for released medical devices, including design changes, product improvements, and issue resolution.
- Partner with design engineering, manufacturing, regulatory, and other cross-functional teams to assess product changes, support documentation updates, and contribute to risk evaluations.
- May specialize in design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control, and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.
- May provide guidance and assistance to entry-level professionals or employees in the Support Career Stream.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability leave
- Dependent daycare spending account
- Tuition assistance/reimbursement
- Global well-being program (Simple Steps)
- Incentive plans, including the Medtronic Incentive Plan short-term incentive
- 401(k) plan with 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
