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

Pkg. SME

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

• Plans, directs and implements all aspects of the company's design and development of new medical device products or software systems.
• May develop, evaluate, implement and maintain technical quality assurance and control systems or reliability systems and standards pertaining to materials, techniques, or company products.
• Oversees the investigation and evaluation of existing technologies.
• Guides the conceptualization of new methodologies, materials, machines, processes or products.
• Directs the development of new concepts from initial design to market release.
• Manages feasibility studies of the design to determine if capable of functioning as intended.
• Monitors documentation maintenance throughout all phases of research and development.
• Organizes the coordination of activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery.
• Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONAL CAREER STREAM: Management and supervisory professionals with one or more employees who are focused on tactical, operational and some strategic activities within a specified area. Levels within the management career stream typically have six or more direct reports. The majority of time is spent overseeing their area of responsibility, managing performance, developing talent, engagement and inclusion, communicating business and operational developments, planning, prioritizing and / or directing the responsibilities of direct reports. Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of direct and / or indirect reports. A key responsibility of roles in this career stream is managing people. which includes: accountability for mentoring, developing and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations and defined objectives, providing leadership to staff ensuring the prioritization of strategic and department level initiatives to include defining performance goals and targets, conducting performance reviews, and staff 1:1s to guide performance management and employee development efforts and manage toward departmental goals.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Supervises team members or subordinate supervisors, providing tactical and / or technical leadership.
May perform ongoing operational tasks.
Receives assignments in task-oriented terms and delivers results according to established procedures.

Organizational Impact: Plans and establishes goals and objectives for a team, typically within (1) department.
Decisions impact project or department schedules, customer satisfaction levels, or allocation of time or material resources.
Typically does not have budget or P&L accountability, but may manage day-to-day elements of the budget (eg, overtime for staff).

Innovation and Complexity: Makes improvements to processes, systems or products.
Problems and issues faced are difficult and may require understanding of broader set of issues, including multiple job areas or specialties.

Communication and Influence: Communicates with internal and external customers and vendors, across various levels of the organization.
Shares and exchanges relevant information to reach solutions, and gaining cooperation of other parties .

Leadership and Talent Management: May be a second level supervisor of employees in the Support career stream, such as production, distribution or technicians .
May be a first level supervisor of employees in the Associate or Intermediate level in the Specialist career stream .
May be a first level supervisor of employees at level IV and V in the Support career stream .
Leads, directs and reviews the work of team members in order to accomplish operational plans and results.
Provides primary input to hiring, firing, promotion, performance and rewards decisions for direct reports.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

Bachelor's degree

Advanced English

Experience in the medical industry

Experience supervising engineers and technicians

Experience in packaging and labeling (FFS)

Green Belt certification

Vision and inspection systems

Multivac brand equipment.

Experience leading CAPAs and validation processes

Design equipment and product packaging

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.

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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