Senior Industrial Engineering Manager - Plymouth, MN

Medtronic • Plymouth, MN

23h • 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 The Senior Industrial Engineering Manager will lead people, processes, and change to drive operational excellence at the Plymouth Nathan Lane Manufacturing site, a key Medtronic campus supporting regulated medical device manufacturing. This role is responsible for developing and leading a high performing industrial engineering team, planning and executing Lean and Six Sigma–based initiatives, and sustaining change through strong leadership, coaching, and stakeholder engagement. This leader will partner closely with site leadership and cross functional teams to assess current state performance, identify gaps, and implement data driven improvements that are adopted, sustained, and scaled. Success in this role requires a strong balance of technical process expertise, people leadership, and change management capability to enable continuous improvement and long term business impact. 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. Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned. This role is a key people and change leader, accountable not only for delivering results, but for building capability and ensuring improvements are adopted and sustained. 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. Physical Job Requirements The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, including 5+ years of managerial experience OR Advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, including 5+ years of managerial experience

Nice To Haves

• Previous Medtronic experience, including hands‑on involvement in Lean, Six Sigma, MPS, or MDT continuous improvement initiatives
• Proven success leading and developing teams through change in a regulated manufacturing environment
• Demonstrated ability to influence across functions and levels, including senior leadership
• Strong expertise in process mapping, root‑cause analysis, and performance measurement
• Experience building and using operational metrics and dashboards to drive behavior change
• Background in delivering training, facilitating workshops, and coaching leaders and teams
• Proven success leading large‑scale productivity, capacity, or footprint optimization efforts
• Experience supporting new product introductions (NPI), site expansions, or major transformations

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of industrial engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and engagement
• Plan, lead, and implement process improvement initiatives aligned to site and enterprise priorities
• Serve as a change leader, guiding teams through transformation by applying structured change management principles, influencing stakeholders, and addressing resistance
• Organize, lead, and facilitate cross functional project teams to drive measurable improvements in safety, quality, delivery, and cost
• Develop and maintain operational metrics and dashboards to monitor performance, track benefits, and reinforce sustained adoption
• Align improvement initiatives to performance shortfalls and strategic priorities
• Provide consultation and thought leadership on reengineering techniques to improve process performance and product quality
• Communicate progress, risks, and outcomes clearly to site leadership and key stakeholders
• Perform cost benefit analyses and ensure value realization from improvement initiatives
• Deliver training, coaching, and presentations on continuous improvement, problem-solving, and standard work
• Identify, share, and deploy best practices across the site and broader organization

Benefits

• Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
• 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).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees