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

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

• Provides technical support to engineers to achieve improvements in cycle-time, yield, unit cost, quality, safety and compliance of production and operations processes and products.
• Monitors instruments and equipment and collects operating data, including calibration, inspection, testing and repair activities, to assist in making on-line adjustments to instruments, equipment, or products.
• Analyzes and resolves malfunctions and deviations of instruments and control systems to identify and resolve problems.
• Conducts, analyses and prepares reports using metrics from salvage tracking, trending, reporting and root-cause analyses.
• Maintains process designs to optimize process, equipment and facility use while conforming to standard operating procedures (SOPs) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs).

TECHNICIAN SUPPORT CAREER STREAM: Provides technical support in areas such as production, operations, maintenance, safety, testing, process improvement or product development. Uses schematics, diagrams, written and verbal descriptions or defined plans to perform testing and troubleshooting on electronic or mechanical components, equipment or systems. Gathers, maintains, formats, compiles, and manipulates technical data using established formulae and procedures, and performs detailed mathematical calculations. For higher levels, may suggest and/or make improvements to optimize work processes.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Trains, delegates and reviews the work of lower level employees and may be responsible for leading daily operations of a work team.
Runs projects, including performing complex tests, interpreting data, developing key reports and providing updates to the broader team.

Organizational Impact: Performs technical activities more complex in nature with larger impact.
Work consists of technical tasks that are complex and complicated.

Innovation and Complexity: Technical problems faced are general, and may require understanding of broader sets of issues and other job areas, but typically are not complex.
May be responsible for working with supervisor to identify potential adjustments or enhancements in systems and processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of job area.

Communication and Influence: Communicates typically with internal contacts.
Obtains and provides technical information on matters of significant importance to the job areas or project.

Leadership and Talent Management: May act as a team lead and assistant to the supervisor / manager.
May delegate tasks to other team members and be responsible for the review of work product.
Does not have formal management responsibilities, but may provide input to management in this area.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
Requires high school diploma or equivalent (United States), vocational or technical education or certification (all other countries).

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. 

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.
 

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 90,000+ 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