Senior Reliability Engineer

Medtronic•North Haven, CT

19d

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 duties related to the Sr Reliability Engineer role requires advance knowledge and experience in Medical Device industry to perform risk assessments, ensuring product risks are captured and maintained, perform design quality reviews, support potential product quality issues in released product portfolio. It also encompasses all aspects of a medical device’s lifecycle such as design, manufacturing, distribution and obsolescence. The diversity of duties ranges from performing quality impact assessments, addressing potential product quality issues, technical writing (Risk Management Review report, Design Failure Mode Effect Analysis, and other related technical documentation) to creative and critical thinking, working with diverse teams and leading in resolving quality issues and process improvements. The duties are complex as depending on the complexity of the issues, all duties and projects are often performed in parallel. The products that the Employee will work on support the Core Surgical Innovations (CSI) product portfolio within the Medical Surgical operating unit. The specific product portfolio includes different stapling products with complex design technologies. The employee will be the lead design quality engineer for one of the many stapling products within the product portfolio. Extensive and deep knowledge in understanding product design helps to address quality issues, assess risks associated with the product and ensure product reliability standards are met. The Employee’s work will have an immediate impact on the CSI product Stapling portfolio and business performance that there are significant continuous improvement projects, product/process changes to be implemented to fulfill the market requirements. Extensive work associated to perform product quality assessment, review and approval of technical documentations related to engineering changes, perform root cause investigations to address quality issues, update and maintain risk management files, to ensure quality standards and business unit goals are met. Other type of activities involve review and analyzing product complaint trends to be aware of trends in Medical device industry. The duties that Employee performs are vital in ensuring products of the highest quality is being provided to patients.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required
Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

Project Management experience or training
Experience working with customers
Knowledge with Six Sigma or DRM
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent communication skills
Ability to work effectively independently, within teams, and across functions.

Responsibilities

Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality standards and protocol for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
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 requirements.
May specialize in the areas of design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.

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
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)