Manager Engineering & Operational Excellence
Careers that Change Lives
Are you ready to work in department that has a High-Performance Culture, promoting autonomous decisiveness and bold acting and driving Excellence in Operations
We are transforming towards a High-Performance Culture, promoting autonomous decisiveness and bold acting and driving Excellence in Operations. In line with this transformation, we are combining our value chain "enabling" functions – Manufacturing Engineering, Maintenance & Facility Services and Operational Excellence - into a new, multidisciplinary support department, while attracting additional talents. And we would like to see this new team led and developed by a:
Enjoying a track record with performance improvement successes, you are a mid-career senior engineer, eager to transfer your broad expertise to others. You boost performance and make it visible. You are committed to build coherent teams. You compete to win and make people excel. You recognize talent and are culturally savvy. You balance patience with drive and lead by example. You orchestrate mindset-transformations towards unburdening the internal customer. You drive continuous improvement and simplification. You take businesses up the digitization-ladder. You embrace Gemba walks and you are visible. You report concisely. You are decisive, self-managing and well-organized. And you feel at home in the world of medical device manufacturing.
A Day in the Life
• Build a successful support team, consisting of Manufacturing Engineering, Maintenance & Facility Services and Operational Excellence (expanding from 4 to 6 FTE)
• Develop existing and new talents towards high-performers
• Troubleshoot and improve processes, focused on unburdening our manufacturing-, inspection- and warehouse teams
• Embed continuous improvement and simplification in our value chain
• Further deploy our Medtronic Performance System (MPS), thereby optimizing reliability, productivity, throughput times, compliance and safety
• Foster effective Tier management and lead problem-solving
• Boost equipment reliability and capacity utilization
• Drive process automation and digitization and promote data analysis and visualization
• Lead continuous improvement projects and facilitate workshops
• Take Process Validation to the next level, in line with applicable standards in the medical device arena
• Optimize alignment with other enabling functions, like Planning, Safety, Quality, Sourcing and Product Engineering
Must Haves
• 10+ years of multi-company working experience in several engineering roles in a manufacturing environment
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or similar
• Well-developed coaching skills and comfortable with applying modern leadership techniques in small teams
• Broad understanding and vision about industrial engineering, production technology, preventive maintenance, trouble shooting, integrated quality and factory-safety
• Excellence in continuous improvement with proven track record of achieving outstanding performance in discrete manufacturing environments
• Demonstrated successes in managing change and transformation in a multidisciplinary organization
• Strong project leadership expertise and outstanding documenting-, reporting- and presenting skills
Nice to Haves
• Fluency in Dutch and English (oral and writing)
• Knowledge of process automation and business digitization
• Insights in equipment investment planning
• Advanced software expertise (office, business intelligence reporting, data-analysis)
• Working expertise in and / or strong affinity with highly-regulated industries, like medical devices or pharma
• Willingness to incidentally (< 5%) travel internationally to other Medtronic locations
• Preferably, a Lean Six Sigma black belt certification and perhaps even real-life experience in Performance Management System roll-outs and some international working experience
We Offer
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package to all our employees:
• Flexible working environment
• Annual Incentive Plan % depending on company results
• Pension scheme and group discount on healthcare insurance
• Training possibilities via Cornerstone/Skills Lab
• Employee Assistance Program and Recognize! (our global recognition program)
Our Commitment
Our unwavering commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity (ID&E) means zero barriers to opportunity within Medtronic and a culture where all employees belong, are respected, and feel valued for who they are and the life experiences they contribute. We know equity starts beyond our workplace, and we must play a role in addressing systemic inequities in our communities if we hope to have long-term sustainable impact. Anchored in our Mission, we continue to drive ID&E forward both to enhance the well-being of Medtronic employees and to accelerate innovation that brings our lifesaving technologies to more people in more places around the world.
About Medtronic
Bold thinking. Bolder actions. We are Medtronic.
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people. Powered by our diverse knowledge, insatiable curiosity, and desire to help all those who need it, we deliver innovative technologies that transform the lives of two people every second, every hour, every day. Expect more from us as we empower insight-driven care, experiences that put people first, and better outcomes for our world.
In everything we do, we are engineering the extraordinary.
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