We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 2 May 2025

 

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

As the Engineering Program Manager at Spine NPI, you will manage the development of life-saving medical device products for spine surgery in a fast-paced environment.

Key responsibilities include leading multiple projects across all spinal therapies offered by Medtronic Spine. to the specific needs of spine surgeons, leading a team of R&D Engineers to lead new product development, developing and designing implants, instruments, and systems, conducting product and use testing; and managing system interfaces.

Through close collaboration with Spine Surgeons, our Sales Organization, our Marketing and R&D Engineering Teams, and under general guidance from the Technical Therapy Leader, you will actively seek out the Voice of the Customer (VOC) input and translate that into product requirements design specifications, and concept sketches.   

The product will focus on spinal instrumentation treating degenerative, deformity, and tumor/trauma conditions. 
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.  We seek out and hire a diverse workforce at every level: We need fresh ideas and inclusive insights to continue to be an innovative industry leader — that’s why we make it a point to seek out, attract, and develop employees who are patient-centric, passionate, and who represent the same wide variety of life experiences as our patients.

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

• Serve as the Engineering Program Manager for several NPI projects by providing overall project leadership, vision, direction, and structure to our NPI R&D and extended team.  Leads the team to deliver technical and business objectives and ensure customer expectations are met or exceeded; Leads with integrity, passion, and humility.
• Leads multiple parallel projects to execution until launch and is accountable to the R&D Leadership for project execution, ensuring team commitments (project contracts) are met.
• Collaborates with Marketing and Sales Organization to define and communicate project scope and advancement; in collaboration with the Therapy Technical Leader, establish priorities.
• Demonstrates high emotional intelligence; builds trust, rapport, and respect with customers (Spine Surgeons and Sales Org.), R&D project team members, and cross-functional stakeholders; Engages in honest and transparent conversations
• Creates a culture where teams can act with a high sense of urgency and accountability to meet/exceed individual and project goals
• Encourages a team culture that challenges traditions, fosters non-judgements, rewards creativity, and eliminates non-value-added work
• Understands complex problems, priorities, and risks and drives the team to effective resolution
• Demonstrates effective collaborative processes for decision-making. This will help facilitate the R&D team in making decisions based on appropriate consideration of the trade-offs.
• Plans and implements all aspects of design and development of new medical device products from initial design to market release following agreed project timelines in the frame of NPI development processes.
• Provides technical leadership in translating, understanding, and defining customer needs while applying and maintaining a constructive feedback loop with customers (Spine Surgeons) to improve designs.
• Understands verification and validation activities, ensuring products meet user needs, system requirements, and intended use.
• Writes project reports and creates presentations as required to document and communicate results
• Contributes and builds domain knowledge around spinal systems, their clinical use, and application via customer and field visits, pre-clinical in vivo labs, literature searches, and training
• Documents tradeoffs, rationales, and potential solutions as per the NPI development process
• Supports documentation throughout all phases of the NPI development process in collaboration with the cross-functional team.
• Participates in activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery
• Contributes inventions, new designs, and techniques regarded as advances in the medical and technical/scientific community
• Provides training and mentorship to less experienced team members and learns from more experienced team members
• Maintains training and ensures personal understanding of all applicable quality policy/system items.
• Follow all work/quality procedures to ensure quality system compliance and high-quality work.

Travel Expectation: up to 25% - domestic travel 4 to 6 days a month.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or technical-related degree – Mechanical Engineering preferred
• Minimum of 7 years of engineering design and development experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of medical device experience in spine, trauma, orthopedics, or dental

Nice to Have:

• Engineering MS degree and/or MBA preferred
• Knowledge of spinal anatomy relative to surgical procedures
• Experience in the use of systems engineering methodologies, including requirements development, analysis, allocation, review, tracing, and verification/validation
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes, including machining and 3D printing
• Understanding of the spinal medical device industry and competitor products. Working knowledge of other disciplines.

Skills & Abilities:

• Minimum of 5+ years of related program management experience; PMP certification preferred
• Capabilities with CREO, SolidWorks, or similar 3D CAD program, Windchill, and Agile PLM systems
• Understanding of engineering drawing standards, including GD&T and tolerance stacks
• Demonstrated ability to take the initiative in keeping current with technology developments in specialized area
• Experience working in an FDA-regulated and/or medical device environment with ISO and Quality System Regulation requirements
• Demonstrated track record of successfully designing and launching products
• Demonstrated track record of successfully managing and leading projects in the medical device industry
• Demonstrated track record of leading within complex organizations requiring strong influence management skills.
• Strong Microsoft Project skillset: creating project plans, baseline, resource planning, critical path establishment, etc.
• Experience in planning, initiating, monitoring, tracking, and/or prioritizing multiple simultaneous projects toward on-time execution
• Knowledge of surgical instruments use conditions in OR setup. (Spine is a plus)
• Experience in articulating clear direction management that aligns with defined practices and policies
• Experience in collaboration in a diverse and multi-cultural environment (worldwide organization)
• Strong team player aiming to win as a team, working closely with Cross functions to execute multiple simultaneous projects.
• Experience directing and monitoring daily activities in simultaneous projects and work streams toward efficiency and optimizing resource use.
• Capable of establishing meaningful metrics
• Experience training and mentoring less experienced engineers
• Ownership of the project’s performance through launch

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 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.

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.
 

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$136,000.00 - $204,000.00

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. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

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.

 

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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 95,000+ 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.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.