Senior Injection Molding Engineer

Careers That Change Lives
Engineers and Scientists create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Join us to make a lasting impact. Help bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide. 

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

Join us to make a lasting impact. Help bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide

The Cardiac and Vascular Group brings all of our cardiac and vascular businesses together into one cross-functional, collaborative operating unit to employ the full breadth of our talent, technologies, products, services, and solutions to address the needs of customers and patients across the globe.

A Day in the Life

• Analyzes, researches, designs and develops catheters and delivery systems.
• Works closely with R&D teams to develop and optimize materials and processes for catheter and delivery system manufacturing.
• Develops processes that facilitate ease of manufacturing while producing quality, cost effective products with optimized yields
• Uses DOE, DRM and lean methodology to create robust and stable processes.
• Determines specific requirements of manufacturing operation in order to specify equipment, fixturing, and process parameters.
• Collaborate on design with suppliers and internal stakeholders to fulfill equipment and fixturing requirements as well as develop fixturing and associated processes.
• Develops and validates test methods associated with proposed processes.
• Establishes material specifications for raw materials and subassemblies.
• Drafts protocols/reports and analyzes data to complete process validation (PC/IQ/OQ/PQ) (including statistically relevant sample size determination)
• Establishes BOM/Routing and drafts work instructions.
• Support risk analysis for proposed processes (DFMECA, PFMECA).
• Establishes control plans for processes, including statistical process control.
• Supports transfer of processes to production.
• Support the exploration and development of new process technologies that can ultimately be incorporated into new product development projects or existing manufacturing lines.
• May provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area
• May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others' work 

A Day in the Life

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

• Analyzes, researches, designs and develops materials and their related fabrication and application processes to develop and optimize materials for use in engineering design of and/or application in structures, systems and subsystems.
• Applies principles of chemistry, physics, and material behavior to develop metallic, non-metallic and composite material and processing specifications, fabrication and assembly processes.
• Develops, analyzes and applies material properties and design allowables, processing processes and quality engineering specifications.
• Material analyses may include failure analysis of components, systems and subsystems, life predictions, and definition and requirement specifications.
• May review and approve subcontractor material processing procedures.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree required
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience

Nice to Have

• Experience with designing or manufacturing disposable medical devices
• Experience with polymer processing
• Experience with process qualification / validation
• Experience working in a medical device company quality system
• Experience with statistical analysis (sample size determination, DOE, Tolerance Intervals, SPC)
• Experience with problem solving methodology and tools (DMAIC)
• Practical knowledge of project management

About Medtronic
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life.  We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements
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. (ADA-United States of America)