Sr. Quality Engineer

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.

A Day in the Life

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This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality standards and protocol for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
  
• Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
  
• Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
  
• Designs or specifies inspection and testing mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
  
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
  
• May specialize in the areas of design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.
  

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Requires Bachelor Engineering Degree
  
• Requires a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.
  

Nice to have

• Experience with Risk management documentation: pFMEAs, dFMEAs, Hazard Analysis
  
• Perform and/or review process validation and equipment documents: URS, FAT, IQ, OQ, PQ, TMV
  
• Basic knowledge in statistics (preferably using Minitab)
  
• Basic knowledge in defining validation strategies (e.g requirements flow down from design to manufacturing)
  
• Engineering degree: Mechanical, Electrical or Chemical preferred
  
• Experience investigating manufacturing operations events in support to product disposition
  
• Experience assessing and tracing manufacturing defects/rejects trends
  
• Knowledge in Medical Devices regulations
  
• Experience working and executing Design transfer activities
  
• Experience with projects to implement new products: design requirements validation, manufacturing controls
  

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to 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 the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

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.

Benefits & Compensation

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Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package

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.

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

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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 95,000+ passionate people.

We are engineers at heart- putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

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