Sr Engineering Manager

Careers that Change Lives In this exciting role as a Senior Engineering Manager you will have responsibility for conducting and managing sustaining quality engineering and reliability assurance including the failure analysis process.

Primary focus with be on providing HALT/HASS services for Product Development and Failure Analysis Activities, conducting failure analysis to determine root cause for product or component issues, establishing critical metrics to measure product reliability, working in conjunction with R&D to establish a design for reliability process, and providing support for the sustaining quality engineering function.

The Restorative Therapies Group develops life-restoring therapies and healthcare solutions that span the care continuum; integrating technologies and applying clinical and economic evidence to increase patient access, improve efficiency of procedures and deliver successful patient outcomes.

The Specialty Therapies division of RTG offers a broad portfolio that addresses urologic and gastrointestinal disorders, conditions of the ear, nose, and throat, as well as stroke products.

A Day in the Life Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

May develop, evaluate, implement and maintain technical quality assurance and control systems or reliability systems and standards pertaining to materials, techniques, or company products.

Oversees the investigation and evaluation of existing technologies.

Guides the conceptualization of new methodologies, materials, machines, processes or products.

Manages feasibility studies of the design to determine if capable of functioning as intended.

Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

Manages product reliability assurance, failure analysis lab, and the sustaining quality engineering function.

Manages business acquisitions.

Establish a Product Reliability (HALT / HASS) and Failure Analysis Laboratory.

Establish critical product reliability metrics to include reliability growth, monthly trend analysis and reporting of product field data, and MTBF / MTTF.

Implement and conduct Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) and Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS) for new product development to determine weaknesses in design prototypes, incoming component / assembly reliability screening, final assembly screening as a replacement for burn in process for select products, and for failure analysis of products with intermittent failures.

Conduct Failure Analysis on field returns to determine root cause and facilitate improvements through design, supplier, or internal manufacturing processes.

Conduct Failure Investigations that address potential product issues that may require corrective or preventive actions.

Collaborate with R&D on Failure Analysis on products in development to assist in root cause analysis and record information into a failure analysis database.

Work with R&D in establishing a process for Design for Reliability.

Provide Manufacturing Value Stream support to include process validations, NCR, and other shop floor compliance and product quality activities.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements: To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Science or technical field with 7 years of work experience in Engineering, Quality, and/or experience in a regulated industry with 5 years of leadership experience OR Advanced Degree in Engineering, Science or technical field with 5 years of work experience in Engineering, Quality, and/or experience in a regulated industry with 5 years of leadership experience.

Nice to Have Medical Device Experience Acquisition Experience DRM/Black Belt/Six Sigma Experience with reliability testing for electro-mechanical devices and plastics.

Demonstrated capabilities in conducting Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT), Highly Accelerated Stress Testing (HASS), Product Verification and Validation Testing, Weibull Plotting, FMEA, and FTA.

Materials Testing Design for Reliability Experience in Reliability Statistics 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.

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