Senior Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Materials

Senior Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Materials

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

Join Medtronics New Product Development team as a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, where youll play a pivotal role in the development and launch of complex surgical devices. Youll provide technical expertise in materials selection, tool fabrication, and process equipment design to support the manufacturing of metal components and subassemblies.

Work environments include standard office settings, clean room manufacturing areas, model shops, and supplier manufacturing facilities. Up to 20% travel may be required.

Responsibilities :

• Lead collaborative Design for Manufacturability (DFM) efforts, analyzing component designs for manufacturability, identifying cost or quality risks, and driving effective resolutions prior to tooling purchase.
• Participate in Capital Authorization Requests (CAR) for component tooling and related test / inspection fixtures, ensuring alignment with product cost targets and capacity needs.
• Provide engineering cost estimates for production components and subassemblies, leveraging expertise in materials and processing costs for project business studies.
• Specify material selections and design features to balance functionality, manufacturability, and cost, based on product design and component interactions.
• Engage in cross-functional meetings (R&D, AME, Sourcing, Quality) to ensure robust component development processes, including design FMEA reviews.
• Support Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) technical meetings, documenting agreements, identifying risks, and driving closure of open action items.
• Contribute to supplier selection, defining tooling and manufacturing process strategies, assessing capabilities, and mitigating risks.
• Partner strategically with suppliers for tooling design, fabrication, and part qualification, ensuring technical rigor and providing project management support.
• Generate electronic purchase requisitions for capital tooling and production process qualification, based on supplier quotations.
• Collaborate with Quality, Sourcing, and R&D to plan, execute, review, and approve PPAP submissions.
• Review and approve supplier tool designs prior to fabrication.
• Execute component engineering deliverables for product transfer from New Product Development to manufacturing plants and enterprise entities.
• Advise management on risks or developments that could impact project timelines or standard costs.

Required Knowledge and Experience :

Requires a Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience.

Preferred Knowledge and Experience :

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package. 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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD) : $100,000.00 - $150,000.00

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

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans include 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, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

About Medtronic

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans. 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.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and / or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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