Reliability Engineer ll
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
Reliability Engineer IICareers That Change Lives
At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday, and that makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work. We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.
The Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Operating Unit offers devices and therapies that treat patients with abnormal heart rhythms and heart failure. We are comprised of three businesses:
• Cardiac Pacing Therapies
• Cardiovascular Diagnostics & Services
• Defibrillation Solutions
We put people first in all we do as we remain on the leading edge of innovation to ensure that we treat more people year over year. We excel in how we operate to deliver the best experiences for people who touch our therapies.
In this exciting role as a Reliability Engineer II, you will have responsibility for ensuring our products exceed the safety and reliability requirements and expectations of patients, clinicians, regulators, and the business.
This position is in Mounds View, MN within the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Operating Unit and is flexible within the hybrid work model.
We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.
A Day in the Life
In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Reliability Engineer II role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams to develop and release new cardiac rhythm management products and design changes.
- Plans, leads, and integrates Design for Reliability (DfR) activities on product development projects to drive product safety, complaint reduction, reliability, and quality outcomes that exceed patient, customer, company, and regulatory agency expectations.
- Evaluates designs for potential failure modes, assesses potential hazards and harms, prioritizes safety risks, identifies appropriate risk controls, and compiles evidence to demonstrate benefits outweigh product risks.
- Defines and allocates reliability requirements and goals, develops and leads reliability demonstration strategies, manages completion of reliability growth activities, and recommends design and manufacturing updates to ensure design achieves required levels of product reliability.
- Understands legacy product performance and incorporates learnings into new product development projects.
- Performs engineering reviews of quality records while advocating for safety, reliability, and quality in design reviews and other project meetings.
Qualifications
Must Have - Minimum Requirements
TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE BE SURE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ARE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME
- Bachelor’s degree required in engineering, math, science, or a technical discipline
- Minimum of 2 years of technical experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 0 years relevant experience
Nice to Have
- Implantable medical device industry experience
- Advanced degree in Engineering or suitable Clinical/Field Support, Safety or Reliability Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Design Engineering, or Product Development Engineering experience
- Experience with 21 CFR Part 820 (Quality System Regulation), ISO 13485, ISO 14971, and Hazard Analysis and Risk Analysis techniques (e.g., FTA, DFMEA, Hazard Analysis Logs, Risk Management Report & Files)
- International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners (IBHRE) Certification
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work cooperatively and influence outcomes as part of a cross-functional team
- Ability to manage project timelines to execute tasks and deliverables in a timely manner
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
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)
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.
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.
If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. (“Medtronic”) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
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