Principal Manufacturing Engineer - Global Mfg

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 23 Jan 2026

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.

At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday and that makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work. We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

In this dynamic role, you’ll play a key part in shaping the future of our Global Contract Manufacturing Platform. As a Manufacturing Engineer, you’ll collaborate with internal teams, global cross-functional partners, and contract manufacturers to ensure seamless transfers and successful launches of new programs. Your expertise will help identify and mitigate risks, drive consistency in pre-launch New Product Introduction (NPI) activities, and ensure smooth production stabilization while leading optimization projects post‑launch.

Based on the global support of our Contract Manufacturing partners, this role can be located anywhere in the United States. Travel typically 35% to 55% but varies based on initiatives and incumbent location.

• Design manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining and material handling.
• Design arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout.
• Design sequence of operations and specify procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance.
• Adapt machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions.
• Incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan.
• Inspect performance of machinery, equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency, investigate and initiate corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure product quality.
• Develop manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control, and may develop those techniques.
• Provide guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.
• Ensure processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.
• Identify design and process optimization opportunities to improve safety quality and cost of the product and manufacturing line.
• Drive team accountability for process improvement and implementation, helping to communicate the importance of process development throughout the organization.
• Proactively identify and call out risks and issues to relevant stakeholders; lead development and delivery of tactical and achievable mitigation and contingency planning.

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant medical device manufacturing engineering experience or related field, or advanced degree with 5 years of relevant medical device manufacturing engineering experience or related field.
• Excellent oral, written, and presentation communication skills.
• Excellent problem solving capability.
• Demonstrated ability to work through influence, negotiation and partnering.

• Experience working with or for large contract manufacturing organizations.
• Test and tester development experience, with hardware and software.
• Experience working on a range of scale and complexity of product from large capital equipment to small, less complex consumables.
• Experience working with finished goods suppliers.
• Experience working on new product launches from early stage design evaluation to production start.
• Strong understanding of launch process requirements such PDP or equivalent.
• Strongly preferred to have project planning skills to prioritize tasks and establish framework and systems for managing areas of responsibility.
• Ability to travel 35% - 55%.

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