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

Mission of the Role

As a Product Engineer II at Medtronic, you will be responsible for accelerating the launch of new products and ensuring seamless transfer into high-volume production. You will play an essential role in driving design transfer, mitigating risks, and leading the qualification, validation, and compliance processes. Your technical expertise will influence product manufacturability, quality standards, and manufacturing optimization across our global sites.

Overall Responsibility:

• Support New Product Development Projects:

  • Act as the technical expert and single point of contact for all manufacturing process and technical-related questions within the project.
  • Collaborate with project managers and stakeholders to ensure smooth product development and timely launches.
  • Effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders at various organizational levels.

• Lead Technical Work Package Execution:

  • Product Design & Manufacturability:
    • Drive product design changes and improvements in manufacturability.
    • Initiate and manage product specifications reviews and acceptance.
    • Implement and drive product/process traceability strategies.
    • Coordinate defect analysis activities from initial identification to market release.
  • Qualification & Validation Activities:
    • Lead and review qualification and validation activities for product development.
    • Approve components validation and ensure readiness for production.
    • Drive the development and implementation of innovative, cost-effective manufacturing solutions.
    • Address and resolve complex technical issues.

• Leadership & Collaboration:

  • Provide technical guidance to team members and junior engineers.
  • Challenge and influence manufacturing processes and technical choices to ensure product quality and efficiency.
  • Lead efforts to improve product quality by applying design for reliability and manufacturability practices (DRM).
  • Ensure the application of established quality standards across the product development lifecycle.

• Design for Reliability & Manufacturability (DRM):

  • Lead the development and execution of the DRM plan for product transfer activities.
  • Contribute to the creation and execution of First Time Quality (FTQ) plans.
  • Ensure alignment with design and manufacturing best practices to optimize product reliability.

• Continuous Improvement & Standardization:

  • Collaborate across multiple global sites (Singapore, Switzerland, US) to contribute to standardization efforts.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives, utilizing Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing principles.
  • Work with Operational Excellence (OPEX) team to optimize the manufacturing process and line layout.

• Safety & Compliance:

  • Champion a safe work environment and ensure all EHS risks and incidents are reported.
  • Enforce adherence to Health and Safety policies, procedures, and regulations.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field (Master’s degree preferred).
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in product engineering, particularly in high-volume manufacturing.
• Experience with product design transfer, qualification/validation activities, and manufacturability improvements.
• Strong understanding of product specifications, design compliance, and pFMEA risk assessments.
• Familiarity with design for reliability and manufacturability practices (DRM).
• Excellent problem-solving and issue resolution capabilities.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and work with global sites.
• Strong communication skills and experience interacting with various organizational levels.

Additional Skills & Attributes

• Familiarity with Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing, and Continuous Improvement methodologies.
• Experience in change control and new product introduction (NPI) processes.
• Ability to lead technical workshops and events.
• Proficiency in project management and time management.
• Fluency in English is required; additional languages are a plus.

TECHNICAL SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: An individual contributor with responsibility in our technical functions to advance existing technology or introduce new technology and therapies. Formulates, delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering R&D, systems or initiatives related to new technologies or therapies – from design to implementation - while adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Established and productive individual contributor.
Works independently with general supervision on larger, moderately complex projects / assignments.

Organizational Impact: Sets objectives for own job area to meet the objectives of projects and assignments.
Contributes to the completion of project milestones.
May have some involvement in cross functional assignments.

Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are general, and may require understanding of broader set of issues or other job areas but typically are not complex.
Makes adjustments or recommends enhancements in systems and processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of job area.

Communication and Influence: Communicates primarily and frequently with internal contacts.
External interactions are less complex or problem solving in nature.
Contacts others to share information, status, needs and issues in order to inform, gain input, and support decision-making.

Leadership and Talent Management: May provide guidance and assistance to entry level professionals and / or employee in Support Career Stream.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires practical knowledge and demonstrated competence within job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 0 years of experience.

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 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