Senior Engineering Manager - CRM

Medtronic • Mounds View, MN

3d • 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. A Day in the Life Senior Engineering Manager Careers That Change Lives At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday and that makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work. We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations. This Senior Engineering Manager leads a talented group to develop environments, automated platforms, and solutions that enable the design, simulation, physical implementation, test, and verification of embedded systems. Visibility is high as this group supports the needs of the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) R&D organization, along with other R&D organizations across the Medtronic enterprise that leverage the environments this group develops and maintains within its scope. The group consists of highly skilled, experienced, and engaged design automation, hardware, and software engineers / technicians, along with various contractors. Key Areas of Focus for This Position Alignment to Medtronic Leadership Expectations for People Leaders: • Shape: Sets strategic direction, owns investment outcomes and value propositions, and leads the implementation of engineering design environments that are used in design and development of Medtronic’s industry leading medical device products or software systems • Engage: Work across the enterprise and matrix within various businesses to maximize the utilization and increase the leverage of our investments in our design environments. Work with a large variety of vendors to identify and develop strategic partnerships that provide value for our organization and engineering stakeholders • Innovate: Work with key stakeholders across the enterprise, and our vendors, to lead the development of new design and test methodologies. Be a key thought leader and influencer in the future of electrical design automation and embedded system environments • Achieve: Develop the organization by increasing overall competencies in design methodologies, business acumen, vendor relationships, and responsiveness to stakeholder needs across a variety of design environments • Partner with like organizations and stakeholders across the enterprise to drive operational excellence in embedded system environments as a competitive advantage for Medtronic by increasing engineering productivity, predictability, design fidelity, and overall quality of outcomes This position is in Mounds View, MN. within the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) operating unit. 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 are working on-site 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This role will require less than 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects. We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive. A Day in the Life This role of Senior Engineering Manager is expected to have responsibilities in both project management and people management, as well as individual contributions as an SME. The broad, collective responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to the following: Lead the development, and execution, of embedded system environment strategies that enable future breakthrough system innovation which continues to redefine the industry for patients, providers and payers in clinical performance, quality and patient outcomes. Work with stakeholders and business partners to develop roadmaps that define strategic outcomes that enable innovation, fidelity, and efficiency. Drive outcomes across organizational boundaries. Working with stakeholders and partners across Medtronic, execute on functional excellence improvements to our embedded system environments and methodologies that advance our enterprise-wide aspirations in design, reliability, development efficiency, and flawless launch. Drive outcomes across organizational boundaries. Ensure availability of any required design environments, in advance of need, to enable the execution of product development portfolios across the enterprise Aligned with strategies developed above, lead the purchase and deployment of various equipment and software assets to meet embedded system design and verification demand across the enterprise. Annual budget includes $8M in expense and >$500K in capital Maintain productive working relationships with various vendors; lead negotiations on license and maintenance renewals working closely with our Strategic Sourcing and other R&D and IT partners across Medtronic Current scope of responsibilities includes the following design environments: Electrical Design Automation (EDA), Embedded System Emulation, Automated Realtime Test Stations, and End-to-End System-level Continuous Integration Responsible for staff of >17 engineers / technicians, which includes contractors Coordinate flexible resource deployment (people, equipment, etc.) with stakeholders and advance the overall competencies of the staff to meet future demands

Requirements

• TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE BE SURE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ARE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME
• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, systems or biomedical engineering, and minimum of 7 years of work experience with 5 years of managerial experience OR advanced degree in mechanical, electrical, systems or biomedical engineering with 5 years of managerial experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a regulated industry, preferably with medical devices
• Experience working with industry (preferably medical electronics) regulators, regulations, and standards, including an understanding of how to interpret and apply requirements to product and process
• Experience with multitasking and leading multiple quick turn initiatives
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work collaboratively as part of a cross functional team
• Experience planning and leading projects and using tools such as Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, and execution, of embedded system environment strategies that enable future breakthrough system innovation which continues to redefine the industry for patients, providers and payers in clinical performance, quality and patient outcomes.
• Work with stakeholders and business partners to develop roadmaps that define strategic outcomes that enable innovation, fidelity, and efficiency. Drive outcomes across organizational boundaries.
• Working with stakeholders and partners across Medtronic, execute on functional excellence improvements to our embedded system environments and methodologies that advance our enterprise-wide aspirations in design, reliability, development efficiency, and flawless launch. Drive outcomes across organizational boundaries.
• Ensure availability of any required design environments, in advance of need, to enable the execution of product development portfolios across the enterprise
• Aligned with strategies developed above, lead the purchase and deployment of various equipment and software assets to meet embedded system design and verification demand across the enterprise. Annual budget includes $8M in expense and >$500K in capital
• Maintain productive working relationships with various vendors; lead negotiations on license and maintenance renewals working closely with our Strategic Sourcing and other R&D and IT partners across Medtronic
• Current scope of responsibilities includes the following design environments: Electrical Design Automation (EDA), Embedded System Emulation, Automated Realtime Test Stations, and End-to-End System-level Continuous Integration
• Responsible for staff of >17 engineers / technicians, which includes contractors
• Coordinate flexible resource deployment (people, equipment, etc.) with stakeholders and advance the overall competencies of the staff to meet future demands

Benefits

• Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
• A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
• 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, and 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), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).
• Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

What This Job Offers

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