A Day in the Life
Team member responsible for Released Product Engineering (RPE) activities for surgical stapling devices. RPE is responsible for product design, Corrective Actions and Preventive Actions (CAPA) and product enhancements that ensure sustainability and improve clinical performance. Engineer will be expected to lead and/or champion initiatives from concept through implementation including presenting information/status of initiatives to management. Engineer would also be expected to provide leadership/mentorship to junior engineers.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
Technical Functions
•Represents the organization in providing imaginative, thorough, practical solutions to difficult technical issues associated with specific products that are consistent with the organization's objectives.
•Anticipates and identifies problems of a unique and challenging nature, including those requiring research and/or analysis to identify.
•Work on highly complex technical problems and provide solutions that are highly innovative and ingenious to a broad range of problems.
•Collaborate with peers to manage the development of appropriate testing to verify product meets internal and external customer requirements.
•Reviews and evaluates development protocols, results and conclusions.
•Demonstrates an understanding of functional and customer requirements.
•Collaborates with peers to develop appropriate testing to verify product meets requirements and sets appropriate specifications to ensure product reliability and manufacturability.
•Investigates customer complaints on existing products and helps to determine root cause of complaint and corrective actions if necessary.
•Incorporates required regulatory standards in developmental and/or sustaining engineering projects.
•Contributes inventions, new designs and techniques associated with the completion of specific projects.
•Provides primary technical contributions and or may lead sub projects.
•Adheres to safety policy and procedures.
Project Management
•Conducts project management tasks and documentation with design controls and risk analysis in accordance with established SOPs.
•Prepares reports, presentations and spreadsheets of an analytical and interpretative nature to be presented to peers, executives, and customers.
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
•Requires a Bachelor's degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 2 years of experience.
Nice to Have
•Mechanical design experience
•Demonstrated ability to interpret a variety of technical information and deal with several abstract and concrete variables
•Knowledge and understanding of design change control process
•DRM, DFSS and/or Six Sigma training/experience
•Good communication and teamwork skills.
•Designs and redesigns medium-high complexity medical devices and subsystems.
•Tests and optimizes the design by conducting experiments and evaluations including numerical verification (finite element analysis (FEA), tolerance analysis etc.)
•Prepares documentation in accordance with relevant internal Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Design Control.
•Interacts with suppliers, participates in Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) processes to access component and assembly manufacturability.
•Participates in Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and follows up on generated recommendations.
•Participates in pre-clinical in vivo labs, observing cases in hospitals and through planned and unplanned customer interactions.
•Creates and evaluates prototypes to generate concept and model approvals.
•In depth knowledge and application of Microsoft Office.
For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship
U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD): $104,000.00 - $156,000.00
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.
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: 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).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: 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.
