Sr. Manufacturing Engineering Director

Medtronic • Tempe, AZ

7d • Onsite

About The Position

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 Today, we’re partnering across the industry to confront systemic healthcare challenges – this requires bold leadership. If you want a challenging, energizing, rewarding career that changes lives, join us. Help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide. Join our team as the Sr. Manufacturing Engineering Director where you will lead Manufacturing Engineering, Program Management to drive continuous improvement. The Tempe facility positively impacts 1.4M people per year with implantable microelectronics that save and sustain life as the center of excellence for microelectronics. At Medtronic, we must work with a sense of purpose and ownership, knowing there is a human life on the other side of every decision. We bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working 5 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. At Medtronic, Engineers are indispensable to achieving our Mission. That’s why we empower you to bring the best of your experience to bear on our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Apply your existing skills and develop new ones, with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to continue to develop your expertise.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and minimum 15 years relevant manufacturing engineering experience with10+ years of people management experience, OR Advanced degree with a minimum 13 years relevant manufacturing engineering experience with10+ years of people management experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Microelectronics and Wafer Fab operations
• Understanding of Qualification protocols – IQ/OQ/PQ.
• Demonstrated ability to lead in an FDA-regulated environment.
• Demonstrated change agent driving improvement in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost KPIs.
• Engineering Degree (preferably: Mechanical or Electrical Engineering).
• Green or Black Belt certification.
• Demonstrated experience managing large, complex transformation initiatives with high level of visibility and business criticality.
• Ability to lead, energize and influence change efforts at all levels of a complex organization.
• Hands-on experience managing cross-functional projects across businesses, sites, or regions.
• Experience with preventative/corrective action process.
• Experience working within a quality system or regulated industry with subsequent knowledge of appropriate documentation and or quality requirements.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership and Operational Oversight Guide, deploy, and execute the Medtronic Performance System (MPS), our “one best way” methodology and tools that support our holistic operational excellence program.
• Oversee, manage, and optimize 24/7 manufacturing in wafer fab, assembly, and test.
• Develop a high-performance engineering team to efficiently drive continuous improvement.
• Hire, coach, develop, and performance manage talent within the department.
• Develop and execute multi-year roadmaps for wafer fab, assembly, and test aligned with needs.
• Collaborate with Design, Quality, Sourcing, Planning, Operations to achieve key process indicators.
• Interface with Senior Management to communicate/report progress on critical projects.
• Meet or exceed defined deliverables for Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost.
• Manage overall department budget.
• Engineering and Technical Management Identify, prioritize, and resource key projects to achieve significant scrap reduction.
• Provide technical oversight to resolve complex product and process issues.
• Lead the team to drive continuous improvement.
• Identify and deploy capital equipment ahead of demand.
• Partner to receive New Product Introduction (NPI) into production.
• Utilize methods and tools like DMAIC, Red X, KT to lead the organization to solve problems.
• Quality and Compliance Focus and achieve high product quality and reliability for our patients.
• Ensure the team is compliant with internal quality requirements.
• Ensure the team is compliant with internal and external quality standards.

Benefits

• Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
• We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
• Health, Dental and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability leave
• Dependent daycare spending account
• Tuition assistance/reimbursement
• Simple Steps (global well-being program)
• Incentive plans
• 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
• Short-term disability
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
• Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees