Senior Quality Engineer - Minneapolis

Medtronic•Minneapolis, MN

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 This is a seasoned individual contributor role responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining rigorous quality standards and protocols during the sustaining and post-market phases of the product lifecycle. The Specialist serves as a key technical expert, working with limited supervision, who must demonstrate strong expertise in risk management (e.g., assessing product risk and supporting field actions). This role involves providing design quality oversight for product changes (including design change analysis and DHF maintenance), using advanced inspection, testing, and statistical analysis methods to ensure product precision, accuracy, and compliance with all required standards and documentation. A successful candidate will drive process improvements within the Quality function, manage projects, and use their specialized knowledge to influence both internal stakeholders and external vendors, often requiring travel to design sites within the US and providing guidance and mentorship. The core mission is to proactively assess, mitigate, and resolve complex technical issues to guarantee product reliability and regulatory adherence. Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

Requirements

Requires a Baccalaureate degree
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.

Nice To Haves

Site transfer experience
Pharma or combination product
Risk Management

Responsibilities

Develops, modifies, applies, and maintains rigorous quality standards and protocols for processing materials into finished products, with a specific focus on the sustaining and post-market phases of the product lifecycle.
Collaborates with engineering, design, and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are established and maintained, including providing Design Quality oversight for product changes, design change analysis, and Design History File (DHF) maintenance.
Demonstrates strong expertise in risk management by devising and implementing methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating product precision and accuracy, and supporting complex risk assessments (e.g., product risk and field action support).
Designs or specifies inspection and testing mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with all regulatory requirements.
Required to travel to design and manufacturing sites within the USA to support technical projects, audits, and design quality reviews.
May specialize in the areas of design quality, product evaluation, reliability engineering, and process quality as they apply to managing released product portfolios.

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
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)