Technician IV at Medtronic in Juncos, Puerto Rico

Job Description:

Careers that Change Lives
You'll always have new challenges pursuing ideas that are exciting, innovative, and just plain cool. Build out the future of robotic healthcare. Think critically about healthcare problems and/or opportunities to advance science faster than others. Do research on improving the healthcare of millions.

A Day in the Life
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Performs a variety of duties in the electronic, mechanical, electromechanical, and/or optical areas. Provide technical expertise in the area of process and equipment development i.e. equipment/process control and monitoring.
• Constructs, troubleshoots, calibrates, adjusts, tests, diagnoses, and maintains equipment, components, devices, or systems.
• Works from schematics, engineering drawings and written or verbal instructions.
• Operates related equipment; conducts tests and reports data in prescribed format.
• Performs calibration and alignment checks; makes adjustments, modifications, and replacements as directed; prepares prescribed compounds and solutions.
• Provide design support and programming for PLC's, motion control, vision applications, robotics systems, and PC controlled equipment.
• Monitor and evaluate safety practices and ensure compliance with legislation where relevant. (CE compliance of equipment).
• Establish the most effective, reliable, and cost-effective processing methods for manufacturing operations.
• Defines and selects new approaches and implementation of CAD software engineering applications and design specifications and parameters.
• Develops routines and utility programs.
• Provides subject matter expertise to vendor automation related stakeholders as appropriate and performs test, debugging and troubleshooting activities on mission critical automation systems.
• Prepares design specifications, analysis and recommendations for presentation and approval.
• Ensures delivered automation systems adhere to applicable domestic and international standards as well as to company and manufacturing site's EHS policies and SOP's.
• Provide support for SOPs, qualification protocols, gap assessments, risk assessment, Impact Assessment, user requirements, functional and configuration specifications, requirements traceability, validation plans, validation summary reports and change controls.
• Support PLC Software and Vision system validations.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of experience of relevant experience and may require vocational or technical education and advanced certification in addition to prior work experience

Nice to Have

• Associate Degree (Electronics, Mechanical or related)
• Experience in medical devices, pharmaceutical or electronic industry.
• Exposure or Experience to high volume, synchronized automated equipment running at rates of 35, 40, 100+ppm's, high precision assembly, Allen Bradley PLC, Servo motion controls, computer machine vision systems, Robotics, complex pneumatics, electrical wiring, mechanical assemblies and sensor.
• Applications Development using an object-oriented language (i.e. C#, VB.Net)
• SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, java, and database design desirable.
• PLC programming experience. Experience building new control systems.
• Knowledgeable integrating Automation systems to MES systems for data collection and control
• Vision system design and integration for inspecting, locating and positioning.
• Experience with Robots/Cobots.
• Knowledge Network design and debug
• HMI development and troubleshooting.
• Knowledgeable on project management of automation systems development lifecycle.
• Experience with servo controllers, motion applications.
• Solid Works and/or AutoCAD, MS Office, MS Project.
• Knowledgeable and experienced on Design for Excellence (DFX) Principles and risk management methodologies such as PFMEA.
• Effective verbal, non-verbal, visual, and written communication skills.

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

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