Reliability Engineer I

Medtronic • Warsaw, IN

9d • $69,600 - $104,400 • 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. Are you passionate about ensuring product performance and reliability in a highly regulated manufacturing environment? At Medtronic’s Warsaw, Indiana site – a global hub for orthopedic innovation – you’ll play a key role in supporting reliability efforts for life-impacting medical devices. As a Reliability Engineer I, you’ll partner cross-functionally to evaluate designs, analyze performance data, and support continuous improvement initiatives. To contribute to human welfare by application of biomedical engineering in the research, design, manufacture, and sale of instruments or appliances that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. That’s the Medtronic Mission — our compass that guides what we do every day. The Medtronic Mission sets the expectations of our culture. Every person here plays a role in bringing it to life. We recognize your potential to ensure patients live better, healthier lives. 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 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. In this role, you’ll build foundational experience applying reliability engineering principles in a fast-paced setting, supporting testing strategies, risk assessments, and data-driven decisions to ensure products meet quality and regulatory standards.

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree and 0 years relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

• Internship or co-op experience in reliability, manufacturing, or quality engineering
• Exposure to reliability principles (e.g., life testing, basic failure analysis, Weibull)
• Experience with data analysis tools such as Minitab or JMP
• Familiarity with risk management tools (e.g., FMEA)
• Basic understanding of validation or testing in a regulated environment (IQ/OQ/PQ)
• Exposure to Lean or continuous improvement methodologies
• 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

• Lead validation activities in support of new product launches, including development of Master Validation Plans (MVPs)
• Develop and execute equipment and process qualifications (IQ/OQ/PQ), including protocol creation and final reporting
• Evaluate prior validation work to determine opportunities to leverage existing data and identify gaps requiring new validation
• Partner cross-functionally with Manufacturing, Quality, and R&D to ensure alignment on validation strategy and execution
• Conduct risk assessments (e.g., PFMEA) and incorporate findings into validation plans and process controls
• Analyze validation and process performance data to ensure processes are capable, stable, and meet defined requirements
• Manage multiple concurrent validation projects in a fast-paced new product introduction (NPI) environment
• Ensure all validation activities are compliant with internal quality systems and applicable regulatory standards
• Identify and implement improvements to strengthen manufacturing processes and support long-term scalability
• Provide regular updates on validation progress, risks, and timelines to stakeholders and leadership

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)
• Paid sick time (for temporary employees, as required under applicable state law)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level