Mechanical Engineering Manager - Released Products
Medtronic
Summary
This engineering leadership role oversees a team of mechanical engineers responsible for supporting released Neuromodulation and Pelvic Health products. The position provides technical and organizational leadership across sustaining engineering activities, product investigations, design changes, manufacturing support, and cross-functional issue resolution to help ensure product quality, reliability, and patient safety.
Job description
Primary Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of mechanical engineers supporting engineering activities across the Neuromodulation and Pelvic Health portfolio.
- Establish team priorities, allocate resources, and drive execution across multiple concurrent engineering initiatives.
- Direct complex technical investigations, root cause analyses, corrective and preventive action (CAPA) activities, and product remediation efforts.
- Partner with Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Operations, Clinical, and Product Development teams to resolve product and process issues.
- Oversee design changes and product modifications through established design control and change management processes.
- Drive risk identification, mitigation planning, and technical decision-making to support product performance and patient safety.
- Support supplier-related investigations, qualification activities, and manufacturing issue resolution as needed.
- Monitor team performance, resource utilization, and workload planning while developing technical capability and leadership within the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with 3 years of relevant experience
- 2 years of experience with people leadership or leading technical teams and complex engineering projects
- Experience working in a regulated industry utilizing formal design control processes
- Experience leading technical investigations and driving cross-functional issue resolution
- Experience managing multiple priorities and stakeholders while supporting business and operational objectives
- Engineering experience in product development, mechanical design, sustaining engineering, manufacturing engineering, or released product support
- Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Medical device industry experience supporting released products or sustaining engineering organizations
- Experience with corrective and preventive action (CAPA), complaint investigations, risk management, and change control processes
- Knowledge of Food and Drug Administration (FDA), International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 13485, and global medical device regulations
- Experience supporting implantable medical devices, neurostimulation systems, patient programmers, handsets, or related technologies
- For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life Insurance
- Long-term Disability Leave
- Dependent Daycare Spending Account
- Tuition Assistance
- Incentive Plans
- 401(k) Matching
- Short-term Disability
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement
Company overview
Medtronic is a global healthcare technology leader and one of the world's largest medical device companies, founded in 1949 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company operates in over 150 countries and employs more than 90,000 people worldwide. Medtronic's mission is to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life through innovative medical technologies. The company develops and manufactures devices and therapies to treat more than 70 health conditions, including cardiac devices, cranial and spine robotics, insulin pumps, surgical tools, patient monitoring systems, and more. With a rich history that began with the invention of the battery-powered pacemaker, Medtronic has grown into a diversified healthcare technology company with four main business units: Minimally Invasive Therapies Group, Diabetes Group, Restorative Therapies Group, and Cardiac and Vascular Group. The company's therapies help approximately 72 million people annually and represent a significant force in advancing medical technology to address some of humanity's most challenging health problems.