Sr. Manufacturing Engineer

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life
A career at Medtronic is like no other. We're purposeful. We're committed. And we're driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of people worldwide.

The Sr. Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for leading and supporting manufacturing process development, optimization, and continuous improvement efforts to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality production. This role provides technical expertise for process design, equipment implementation, troubleshooting, and validation while partnering cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and R&D to drive manufacturing excellence.

The Sr. Manufacturing Engineer serves as a subject matter expert and technical leader, helping to improve productivity, reduce cost, enhance product quality, and support new product introductions and manufacturing scale-up. The role also evaluates and implements process improvements, advanced technologies, and engineering solutions that strengthen operational performance and compliance.

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

Designs manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining and material handling.
Designs arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout.
Designs sequence of operations and specifies procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance.
Adapts machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions.
May incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan.
Inspects performance of machinery, equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency, and investigates and initiates corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure product quality.
Develops manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control, and may develop those techniques.
Provides guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.
Ensures processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.

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.

Engineering bachelor degree required

Nice to have:

Basic Knowledges in the following areas:
Cutting tools
CNC Programming
Inspections gage
GD&T basic knowledge
Stack-up Analysis
Process Validation
DOE, IQ, OQ, PQ and Gage R&R
Automation, Robotics, Integration, and PLC programming
Laser Welding & Etching, and Laser Annealing SME
Shot Peening / Blasting Knowledge
CAD Software Knowledge: Creo, AutoCAD, PartMaker
Product Inspection Systems Design
Optical product mix detection systems
Assembly Processes Experience
Assembly line design, process optimization, and troubleshooting
CEA Knowledge
Sterile packaging
Sterilization: ETO, Gamma
Sterile Cleaning
Jigs and Fixture Design
Anodizing Process
Lean Manufacturing & Six Sigma (Green Belt or Black Belt certification)
Advanced statistical analysis (DOE, SPC, MSA, process capability studies)
Automation and digital manufacturing experience
Equipment qualification & validation leadership (IQ/OQ/PQ)
Risk management tools (FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis)
Regulatory knowledge (FDA QSR, ISO *, GMP)
Change management
Data analytics tools (Minitab, JMP, Power BI, Python for data analysis)
Cost reduction and value engineering
Strong technical writing (protocols, reports, submissions support)
Experience in Nonconformance investigations (NCMR, CAPA investigation)

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § *(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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