Senior Packaging Engineer - Grand Rapids, MI

Medtronic • Grand Rapids, MI

9d • 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 Packaging Engineer will play a key role in advancing packaging solutions that support Medtronic’s commitment to creating innovative, reliable medical technologies. Based at our Grand Rapids, Michigan site, this role partners closely with cross functional teams across engineering, operations, quality, and supply chain to develop and sustain packaging systems that meet regulatory, performance, and patient safety requirements throughout the product lifecycle. Grand Rapids is a critical Medtronic manufacturing and operations hub, with a strong focus on collaboration, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence. This role offers the opportunity to work in a fast paced, hands-on environment, influencing packaging strategy for complex medical devices while driving innovation, scalability, and compliance in a high impact healthcare setting. 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. Designs, develops, and tests a wide variety of containers used for the protection, display, and handling of products. Determines packaging specifications according to the nature of the product, cost limitations, legal requirements, and the type of protection required, considering need for resistance to such external variables as moisture, corrosive chemicals, temperature variations, light, heat, rough handling, and tampering. Responsibilities may include documentation management and/or coordination of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), and may support prototype line development in manufacturing facilities/plants.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with a 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

• Familiarity with form fill and seal, bar sealing and tray sealing
• Proficiency with troubleshooting packaging equipment and sterile barrier review
• Ability to work cross functionally in a high-volume production site.
• Experience supporting packaging for medical devices in a regulated manufacturing environment (FDA, ISO 11607)
• Familiarity with sterile barrier systems and validation activities (e.g., seal integrity, transit testing, shelf life)
• Experience collaborating with contract manufacturers or external packaging suppliers
• Hands‑on experience with packaging materials selection and sustainability initiatives
• Working knowledge of risk management tools (FMEA) and design controls
• Experience supporting packaging changes for sustaining engineering
• Proficiency with packaging‑related testing equipment and data analysis
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence cross‑functional partners

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, and tests a wide variety of containers used for the protection, display, and handling of products.
• Determines packaging specifications according to the nature of the product, cost limitations, legal requirements, and the type of protection required, considering need for resistance to such external variables as moisture, corrosive chemicals, temperature variations, light, heat, rough handling, and tampering.
• Responsibilities may include documentation management and/or coordination of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), and may support prototype line development in manufacturing facilities/plants.

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).

What This Job Offers

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