Senior Manufacturing Controls Engineer

A Day in the Life

As a Senior Manufacturing Controls Engineer, you'll play a key role in advancing our New Product Development (NPD) efforts for cutting-edge surgical devices. Your expertise in automation, process controls, and validation will help transform design concepts into reliable, scalable production systems—ultimately improving patient outcomes around the world.

You'll collaborate closely with AME, R&D, Sourcing, and supplier partners to specify, develop, and validate advanced assembly tooling and automation systems that ensure safety, quality, and efficiency throughout the product life cycle.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to)

• Plan, develop, and manage technical and financial specifications for reliability, prototype, and production assembly tooling and automation equipment.
• Partner with AME and R&D teams during design and FMEA reviews to identify assembly risks and implement robust, manufacturable solutions.
• Conduct Design for Assembly (DFA) analyses and drive effective resolutions with design / development teams.
• Provide input to Assembly Tooling Strategy and Process FMEAs, integrating controls that mitigate high-risk failure modes.
• Contribute to the Capital Asset Request (CAR) process by defining cost estimates aligned with standard cost and capacity requirements.
• Participate in supplier selection, proposal reviews, and quotation analyses to identify capable and cost-effective automation partners.
• Generate purchase requisitions and manage supplier relationships for design, build, and acceptance testing of capital assembly equipment.
• Lead equipment design reviews, ensuring compliance with Medtronic fabrication standards, safety requirements, and documentation practices.
• Direct factory and site acceptance testing (FAT / SAT) and support installation qualification (IQ) to release equipment to production.
• Program, troubleshoot, and upgrade PLCs, vision systems, HMIs, and data acquisition systems on both new and existing equipment.
• Deliver technical training to Maintenance and Manufacturing Engineering teams to ensure smooth handover of automated systems.
• Investigate and integrate emerging controls technologies to continuously improve manufacturing capability and process efficiency.
• Support product transfer deliverables from pilot to receiving plants, ensuring equipment readiness and process repeatability.
• Evaluate tooling maintainability, repeatability, and perform Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA).
• Advise management on any unmitigated risks or developments that could impact time-to-market or product cost targets.

Must Have : Minimum Qualifications

Nice to Have : Preferred Qualifications

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

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.

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). The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification / education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

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).

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), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below :

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.

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. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. ("Medtronic") in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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