Engineering Program Manager - Pelvic Health - Rice Creek MN or Juncos, PR (Hybrid/Onsite) at Medtronic in Fridley, Minnesota

Job Description:

Careers That Change Lives

In this exciting role as the Engineering Program Manager, you will be responsible for the overall operations aspects including value stream selection, planning, execution, and successful implementation of activities in the development and introduction of new products. You will ensure that the voice of operations is properly captured, and all team commitments and project contract metrics are met and communicated in a timely manner.

Join a diverse team of innovators who bring their worldview, their unique backgrounds and their individual life experiences to work every day. It's no accident - we work hard to cultivate a workforce that reflects our patients and partners. We believe it's the only way to drive healthcare forward and remain a global leader in medical technology and solutions.

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Pelvic Health (PH) therapies treat patients suffering from overactive bladder, non-obstructive urinary retention, and fecal incontinence with our sacral neuromodulation (SNM) systems InterStim X™ and InterStim™ Micro; and our percutaneous tibial neuromodulation (PTNM) system NURO™. PH is part of the Neuroscience portfolio.

More than 400 million people worldwide have incontinence, and many of them limit their lives socially, professionally, and personally because of their condition. Our goal is to expand access to our therapies, so we can help potentially millions of people get their lives back.

Location : Rice Creek, Minnesota OR Juncos, Puerto Rico ( Hybrid - 3 days onsite / 2 days remote )

Ability to travel up to : 25% (domestic or international)

A Day in the Life

The Core Team Operations Representative (CTOR) is the recognized leader of global operations and supply chain on new product introduction (NPI) project core teams. The CTOR provides leadership to an extended project team comprised of individuals from Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain Planning, Category Management, Sourcing, Contract Manufacturers / OEM, Supplier Quality, and other functions to drive successful development and commercialization of new products.

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Strongly advocate for and represent Operations to a cross functional team related to project and business needs.
• Lead through influence in a matrixed, cross-cultural organization.
• Lead all manufacturing and supply chain schedule risk burn down.
• Define and meet operations objectives: Labor, Burden, Material, Cycle Time, Capacity, Yield, Process Ppk, etc.
• Drive operations program schedules, scope, materials, resources, expenditures, and funding.
• Ensure the quality policy/system is planned, understood, implemented, and maintained.
• Ensure operations aspects of Quality System Compliance, Design History File, and Regulatory submissions are properly documented.
• Coordinate development builds across value streams.
• Lead decision making for facility locations, make-buy decisions, business continuity.
• Ensure Design for Reliability and Manufacturing (DRM) is consistently and rigorously applied
• Facilitate launch build planning, capacity planning and execution and Commercialization Readiness activities.
• Provide tactical and / or operational leadership and coaching to operations team and extended operations team.
• Provide indirect people management and development.

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 or related discipline required with a minimum of 5 years of Program or Project Management experience leading complex new product.
• OR advance degree with a minimum of 3 years of Program or Project Management experience leading complex new product.

Nice to Have ( Preferred Qualifications )

• Program or project management experience leading a complex new product or new process development including launch operations costing (LBM, OPC, Inventory deferrals, capital project management, etc.) and financial accountability.
• PMP Certification
• Experience in new product OR new process development including launch operations.
• Experience working in medical device or other regulated industry.
• Experience or extensive knowledge of at least 2 related disciplines (with knowledge of all) such as:
  
  
  • Product development
  • Manufacturing Engineering
  • Supply chain planning/capacity planning for launch.
  • Technical expertise in qualifications (i.e., validation including IQ/OQ/PQ, CPAP, or related)
  • Sourcing including component qualification.
  • Quality engineering including new product.
  • Design for Manufacturability (DMR/DFSS or similar methodology)
• Experience supervising or managing others.

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)
Ability to travel: 25%

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