Senior Design Automation 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 The Senior Automation & Controls Engineer will support automation initiatives from concept through production deployment, focusing on advanced technologies such as automation cells, collaborative robots (Cobots). This role ensures seamless integration of automation systems, process development, and equipment mechanization to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability across manufacturing operations. Driven by Medtronic’s mission to advance life-saving therapies, our Dexter, Michigan site is a rapidly growing manufacturing facility focused on advanced cardiopulmonary and Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) / ECMO technologies. The site operates in a highly regulated, cleanroom environment and plays a critical role in delivering life-sustaining devices used in cardiac and respiratory care. With a strong culture centered on safety, quality, and continuous improvement, the Dexter team partners closely across engineering, operations, and R&D to scale innovative manufacturing solutions that directly impact patient outcomes. 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.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience OR PhD with 0 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.
Nice To Haves
- PLC Troubleshooting: Diagnose, repair, and optimize PLC-controlled systems to ensure reliable automation performance.
- Mechanical Design: Develop and refine mechanical components and assemblies for automated equipment.
- Electrical Design: Develop and refine electrical drawings for automated equipment.
- Machine Building: Oversee and support the construction and integration of automated machinery from concept to deployment.
- Systems Engineering: Design and implement integrated automation systems, ensuring compatibility across hardware and software platforms.
- Programming: Design, program, and deploy applications written in .NET or Python.
- Simulation: Utilize simulation tools to validate automation concepts, optimize workflows, and predict system performance.
- Machine Vision: Implement vision systems for inspection, quality control, and process automation.
- Robotics: Design, program, and deploy robotic solutions for manufacturing and material handling applications.
- Cobots: Integrate robots and collaborative robots (Cobots) into production environments for flexible automation.
- Process Development: Develop and optimize manufacturing processes to transition from manual to automated workflows, ensuring scalability and efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Execute automation opportunities from concept to production deployment.
- Support equipment mechanization and automation from business case to implementation.
- Improve equipment uptime through troubleshooting, design changes, vendor partnerships, and hypercare.
- Work with sites and maintain an automation roadmap for value streams.
- Develop processes to transition from manual to automated operations.
- Collaborate with Advanced Manufacturing Engineering and sustaining engineering teams to integrate process changes.
- Document equipment requirements and review vendor designs for compliance.
- Support the full equipment life cycle, from development to sunsetting.
- Drive standard work for equipment health assessment and reliability.
- Oversee installation and hypercare of electromechanical systems.
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
Senior
