Senior Design Automation Engineer
Careers that Change Lives
Act boldly. Compete to win. Move with speed and decisiveness. Foster belonging. Deliver results…the right way. That’s the Medtronic Mindset — our cultural norms. Our brand is rooted in action, not just words. The Medtronic Mindset defines the expectations of our culture. Every person here plays a role in bringing it to life. We recognize your extraordinary potential to ensure future generations live better, healthier lives.
In this exciting role as a Senior Manufacturing Automation Engineer – you will be responsible Manufacturing process automation in Medical Devices manufacturing. This position will work across manufacturing sites in driving design, development, and flawless execution of automation projects.
This role will also be involved in setting up best practices and standards around design, development, and validation of Automation equipment. The Senior Design Automation level role will include all aspects of defining a compliant solution and ensuring appropriate support and rollout to the manufacturing sites.
A Day in the Life
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Develop, build, and test Designs and concepts for feasibility.
- Generate clear and detailed Equipment and Software specifications based on Process needs.
- Work with your manager to ensure project financials meet minimum requirements to gain capital approvals.
- Collaborate with external Automation partners during build, development, testing and validation of Automation equipment.
- Collaborate and partner with internal stake holders Operations, Quality, Engineering to ensure alignment on objective, strategy and goals.
- Ensure Operations and production staff is adequately trained and staffed to support Automation systems prior to deployment.
- Drive Testing and validation of Automation Equipment, software prior to Production Release.
- Provide post go live hyper care support to ensure flawless deployment.
- Develop and drive best practices around Automation equipment design principals and standards, software change control, process control for consistent and scalable application.
- Collaborate with Engineering during early design phases to provide design ideas/options for Manufacturing Automation.
- Analyze software programming during validation phase. (Source code Reviews)
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
- Bachelors degree required
- Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience
Nice to Have
- Project management experience with proven ability to work with a cross functional team, setting road map, project pipeline.
- Must have PLC programming experience. Experience building new control systems.
- Experience integrating Automation systems to MES systems for data collection and control.
- Experience working with external Automation vendors, and providing them User Requirements, Statement of Work and managing them through completion.
- Strong problem-solving skills utilizing logic and engineering first principles.
- Vision system design and software development in at least two development environments.
- Experience with selecting programming Robots/Cobots.
- Experience in Human Machine Interface (HMI) programming.
- Proficiency with Electrical networks. Able to review and understand schematics and collaborate with Vendors.
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.
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.
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)
