Materials Engineer II - Extrusion
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Bring your talents to an industry leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions – we’re a market leader and growing every day. You can be proud to be a part of technologies that are rooted in our long history of mission-driven innovation. You will be empowered to shape your own career. We encourage and support your growth with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to own your future success. Together, we can transform healthcare.
A Day in the Life
In this role as a Materials Engineer II - Extrusion, you will participate in projects/tasks to meet the operational objectives of our Extrusion department at Medtronic’s Danvers, MA site. You will be responsible for implementing innovations for continuous improvement and cost savings initiatives, as well as source new and improved extrusion and braiding manufacturing methods for their application and/or adaptation to flexible composite medical device profiles.
As the Materials Engineer II, you will:
- Manage specific individual project schedules. Lead cross-functional teams on operations-based projects.
- Order, implement and qualify process equipment and tooling.
- Devise and implement cost savings proposals related to extrusion process and workflow improvements.
- Provide process engineering support for production problems and development runs. Perform root cause investigation and implement corrective actions required as a part of non-conformance report.
- Represent extrusion concerns at material review board meetings.
- Author and institute written technical specifications through document control system for new and existing processes.
- Deploy Lean 6 Sigma methodology to solve and implement production improvement projects.
- Implement process refinements that will produce faster, shorter manufacturing cycles concurrent with the acquisition and turnover of equipment to keep pace with capacity requirements.
- Seek out inefficiencies in the existing operation and device solutions that can be translated into tangible cost savings.
- Work with development teams to incorporate new process and material ideas into new product opportunities.
- Originate validation and qualification protocols as well as engineering specifications to transfer processes into production.
- Investigate new applications to leverage existing technologies.
- Collaborate with Team Engineers to develop product line extensions and new product concepts to release to production.
- Perform and maintain rheological characterization program to shorten materials selection process and benchmark melt properties.
- Source and acquire lab testing instrumentation to perform thermal and mechanical analyses of compounded resins and post-extruded samples.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 2+ years of extrusion process/project engineering experience, OR, advanced degree with 0 years of experience.
Nice to Have
- MS in Plastics Engineering
- Experience in a medical device setting
- 2-5 years’ experience in an ISO13485/GMP environment
- Six Sigma, Constraint Management and Lean Manufacturing experience
- Documented success rate of new product launch contributions and/or completed capital projects managed on time and on budget
- Proven success in Project Management
- Capacity modeling
- Team dynamic skills (communication, accountability, decision-making, feedback, meeting management, managing conflict)
- DOE, SPC, FMEA, GMP, QSR
- Computer literate
- Strong statistical skills (basic and minimal advanced statistics)
- Knowledge of statistical software
- Technical writing skills
- Verbal, written and presentation 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.
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage. Learn more about our benefits here.
MIP Eligible: This position is eligible for a short-term incentive plan. Learn more about Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) here.
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)
The provided base salary range is used nationally in the United States (except in Puerto Rico and certain CA locations). The rate offered is compliant with federal/local regulations and may vary by experience, certification/education, market conditions, location, etc.
