Senior Quality Engineering Manager

Medtronic • Cherry Hill, MA

8d • Onsite

About The Position

At Medtronic, your leadership helps bring medical technologies from concept to market. As Senior Quality Engineering Manager in Danvers, MA, you will lead a team of 11 engineers supporting more than 16 active development programs across multiple Operating Units (OUs). With a strong focus on design and development, you will guide quality engineering activities throughout the product lifecycle—from early concepts and feasibility through market release. This role brings together design quality expertise, people leadership, and collaboration across teams to support product quality and reliable execution across a diverse development portfolio. This is a fully onsite role, in Danvers, MA.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 7 years of relevant experience, including 5+ years of managerial experience; OR Advanced degree with at least 5 years of relevant experience, including 5+ years of managerial 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

• Experience leading design quality engineering activities for medical device development, from early concepts and feasibility through market release.
• Demonstrated success managing and developing engineering teams, with an emphasis on coaching, inclusion, and professional growth.
• Experience overseeing multiple concurrent development programs and balancing resources and priorities across business units.
• Strong technical judgment in evaluating designs, technologies, materials, and processes to identify and address quality and reliability concerns.
• Experience developing or improving quality assurance, quality control, or reliability systems that support product development.
• Experience overseeing technical documentation throughout research and development.
• Ability to build effective partnerships with cross-functional teams, external suppliers, and consultants.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to influence decisions and communicate technical issues clearly to varied audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead design quality engineering: Plan, direct, and oversee quality engineering support for the design and development of new medical devices and associated software systems.
• Manage a complex development portfolio: Align priorities, engineering resources, and quality objectives across more than 16 active development programs spanning multiple Operating Units.
• Develop and support your team: Lead, coach, and evaluate 11 engineers, setting clear expectations, supporting professional growth, and creating an inclusive environment where different perspectives are valued.
• Guide development from concept to release: Partner with development teams to integrate quality considerations into new concepts, methodologies, materials, processes, and products throughout design and development.
• Oversee feasibility evaluations: Guide studies and technical assessments to determine whether proposed designs can function as intended and identify quality concerns early in development.
• Strengthen quality and reliability systems: Oversee the development, evaluation, implementation, and maintenance of technical quality assurance, quality control, and reliability systems and standards relevant to materials, techniques, and products.
• Evaluate technologies: Direct the investigation and evaluation of existing technologies to inform development decisions and opportunities for improvement.
• Maintain development documentation: Oversee documentation maintenance throughout research and development to support complete, consistent records across program phases.
• Coordinate external partnerships: Organize activities with suppliers and consultants to align technical contributions, quality expectations, and timely delivery.
• Drive effective execution: Communicate program priorities, resource needs, and quality concerns across teams and leadership to support timely decisions and efficient operation of the function.

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)

What This Job Offers

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