Principal Manufacturing Engineer - Global Mfg

Principal Manufacturing Engineer - Global Contract Mfg

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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.

• Shape the future of our Global Contract Manufacturing Platform by collaborating with internal teams, global cross‑functional partners, and contract manufacturers to ensure seamless transfers and successful launches of new programs.
• 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.
• Design manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining and material handling.
• Arrange machines within plant facilities to ensure the most efficient and productive layout.
• Define 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, and 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 experience.
• 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 as PDP or equivalent.
• Strong project planning skills to prioritize tasks and establish framework and systems for managing areas of responsibility.
• Ability to travel 35% – 55%.

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities and skills. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile, interact with a computer, and communicate with and co‑workers.

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