Principal Process Engineer
A career at Medtronic is like no other. We’re committed to and driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions of people worldwide!
Join a diverse team of innovators who bring their worldview, their unique backgrounds, and their individual life experiences to work every day. It’s no accident – we work hard to cultivate a workforce that reflects our patients and partners. We believe it’s the only way to drive healthcare forward and remain a global leader in medical technology and solutions.
A Day in the Life
Medtronic is currently searching for a Principal Process Engineer to join our growing team. In this exciting role in the Billerica facility, you will have responsibility for supporting the manufacturing of high-quality and complex catheters to support the Cardiac Ablation Solutions Business.
As the Principal Process Engineer, you will:
- Provide technical and sustaining engineering support in a manufacturing area.
- Recommend and implement equipment and process modifications to meet quality standards and improve production efficiencies, manufacturing techniques as well as production yields for existing products.
- Integrate equipment and material capabilities to meet process module target specifications and technology target specifications.
- Review product development requirements for compatibility with processing methods to determine costs and schedules.
- Interact with product design and development personnel to ensure that processes and designs are compatible.
- May develop and conduct statistical analysis or recommend additions to document work.
- Lead the innovation, development and/or optimization of new manufacturing concepts, processes and procedures for transfer to manufacturing operations.
- This can include scouting and feasibility work, material selection, process and equipment selection, tooling / fixture and equipment installation and assessment of inputs, outputs and alignment to requirements.
- Develop manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control and may develop those techniques including the measurement systems.
- Ensure processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.
- Create, manage, and lead projects as assigned.
- Bachelors degree required with a minimum of 7 years of process engineering experience OR advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years process engineering experience
Nice-to-Haves
- 5 years of medical device experience
- Fixture and tooling experience
- Experience leading complex projects
- Start up experience
- Lean Six Sigma certification
- Design for Reliability and Manufacturability (DRM) experience
- IQ, OQ, and PQ experience
- Validation/Test Method Validation experience
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 or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)
