Senior Process Engineer - Tempe, AZ
Medtronic
Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
Full-Time
$103,200
OfficeSenior
Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
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.
Engineers are indispensable to achieving our Mission. That’s why we empower you to bring the best of your experience to bear on our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Apply your existing skills and develop new ones, with the training, mentorship, and the guidance you need to continue to develop your expertise. Today, we’re partnering across the industry to confront systemic healthcare challenges – this requires bold leadership. If you want a challenging, energizing, rewarding career that changes lives, join us. Help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide.
In this exciting role as a Senior Process Engineer, you will provide technical and sustaining engineering support in 24/7 manufacturing areas, including pack and clean processes. You will also have opportunity to support the innovation, development and/or optimization of new manufacturing concepts, processes and procedures for transfer to manufacturing operations.
At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 5 days a week onsite, at our manufacturing site in Tempe, Arizona, as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.
The Senior Process Engineer is responsible for sustaining and supporting equipment and processes. This entails output monitoring, performing necessary experiments to establish robust processes and gaining a thorough understanding of capabilities and interactions with upstream and downstream processes.
Responsibilities include:
Provides technical and sustaining engineering support in manufacturing areas in cleanroom
Support Medtronic Performance System including the Tier meetings, Gemba walk, OEE etc.
Recommends and implements equipment and process modifications to meet quality standards and improve production efficiencies, manufacturing techniques as well as production yields for existing products.
Perform equipment qualifications (IQ), process validations (Process characterization, OQ and PQ), and gage R&R studies (TMV)
Integrate equipment and material capabilities to meet process module target specifications and technology target specifications.
Review product development requirements for compatibility with processing methods to determine costs and schedules.
Interact with product design and development personnel to ensure that processes and designs are compatible.
Ensure processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations. Generate and maintain documentation per quality system regulations.
Minimum Qualifications:
To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum qualifications are evident on your resume.
Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Science or Technical field and a minimum of 4 years relevant engineering experience or a Master’s degree and a minimum of 2 years relevant engineering experience OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience.
Nice to Have:
Medical device/Pharmaceutical or other regulated industry experience.
Hands on experience with process and/or equipment development on manufacturing process.
Experience with DRM / DFSS, Lean Sigma, or Green/Black Belt Lean Sigma certification.
Knowledge of DOE, statistical analysis methods and data analysis tools (Minitab, JMP, etc.).
Experience and understanding of SPC principles including process capability analysis and control charts.
Experience or aptitude to program, run and troubleshoot automated assembly equipment, or automated metrology tools.
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.
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.
U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship
At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.
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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, andSimple 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), andCapital 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
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