Sr Engineering Manager at Medtronic in Littleton, Massachusetts

Job Description:

Careers that Change Lives

In this exciting role as a Senior Engineering Manager you will have responsibility for conducting and managing the sustaining quality engineering team for Enabling Technologies Imaging and Navigation Systems capital equipment, across design and development site locations of Littleton, MA and Louisville, CO. Due to service activities associated with capital equipment, this role is additionally responsible for the service quality function. Primary focus with be on providing support for commercialized products, inclusive of design changes, product performance analysis, service and manufacturing improvements, and proactive and corrective actions to improve our products and processes.

Enabling Technologies is part of Cranial Spinal Technologies (CST), developing life-restoring therapies and healthcare solutions that span the care continuum; integrating technologies and applying clinical and economic evidence to increase patient access, improve efficiency of procedures and deliver successful patient outcomes for cranial and spinal procedures.

A Day in the Life

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• May develop, evaluate, implement and maintain technical quality assurance and control systems or reliability systems and standards pertaining to materials, techniques, or company products.
• Oversees the investigation and evaluation of existing technologies.
• Guides the conceptualization of new methodologies, materials, machines, processes or products.
• Manages feasibility studies of the design to determine if capable of functioning as intended.
• Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
• Manages the sustaining quality engineering and service quality function.
• Establish quality metrics to monitor and improve product improvements.
• Conduct Failure Analysis on field returns to determine root cause and facilitate improvements through design, supplier, or internal manufacturing processes.
• Conduct Failure Investigations that address potential product issues that may require corrective or preventive actions.
• Collaborate with R&D on Failure Analysis on products in development to assist in root cause analysis and record information into a failure analysis database.
• Provide Manufacturing Value Stream support to include process validations, NCR, and other shop floor compliance and product quality activities.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements:

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Science or technical field with 7+ years of work experience in Engineering, Quality, and/or experience in a regulated industry with 5+ years of leadership experience OR Advanced Degree in Engineering, Science or technical field with 5+ years of work experience in Engineering, Quality, and/or experience in a regulated industry with 5+ years of leadership experience.

Nice to Have

• Medical Device Development and Manufacturing Experience
• Design for Manufacturability Experience
• Manufacturing Site Transfer Experience
• Demonstrated capabilities in conducting Product Verification Testing, User Validation Testing, Manufacturing Process Controls, FMEA, and FTA
• DRM/Black Belt/Six Sigma
• Experience with reliability testing for electro-mechanical devices
• Demonstrated capabilities in conducting Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT), Highly Accelerated Stress Testing (HASS), Weibull Plotting
• Materials Testing
• Design for Reliability
• Experience in Reliability Statistics
• Leadership across multiple locations

About Medtronic
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

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. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)

Additional Information

• Posting Date: Sep 24, 2021
• Travel: Yes, < 25 % of the Time

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