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Principal Manufacturing Engineer
Apply remote type Hybrid locations Galway, County Galway, Ireland Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday time left to apply End Date: May 4, 2025 (9 days left to apply) job requisition id R27482
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
The Principal Manufacturing Engineer will join the ACM OU OPS team to ensure a seamless transition of new products from R&D to Manufacturing. This role involves collaborating with R&D to understand product designs, developing manufacturing processes with a focus on enhancing line efficiency while managing risks. The AME will implement Operational Excellence tools and be responsible for creating and maintaining BOMs, work instructions, and DMRs.
Responsibilities
* Designs manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining, and material handling.
* Designs arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout.
* Designs sequence of operations and specifies procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance.
* Adapts machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions.
* May incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan.
* Inspects performance of machinery, equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency, and investigates and initiates corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure product quality.
* Develops manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control and may develop those techniques.
* Provides guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.
* Ensures processes and procedures comply with regulations.
Key Skills & Experience
* Bachelors degree required in Electrical, Mechanical, Electromechanical or Automation Engineering.
* Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
* Experience with product development.
* May have practical knowledge of project management.
* Knowledge of equipment, facility, and process validations.
* Experience with managing BOMs and DMRs.
* Experience with equipment development and process validation (IQ/OQ/PQ).
* Project Management skills including Gantt charts, tracking financials of projects, updating key stakeholders, coordinating resources, and delivering results against project timelines and budgets.
* Experience working with suppliers including managing project deliverables.
* Team dynamic skills (communication, accountability, decision-making, feedback, meeting management, managing conflict).
* Problem solving and root cause analysis for improvements or non-conformances.
Nice to Have
* Medical Device experience.
* Experience with injection molding.
* Small tooling design and development.
* Design of Experiments (DOE).
* Verbal, written and presentation skills.
* Technical writing skills & updating documentation and procedures.
* Knowledge of drafting standards, fixtures, and tooling a plus.
* Strong statistical skills using Minitab.
* Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing experience preferred.
* Proficient in Microsoft Access, Excel, Project, Visio, and Word.
* Knowledge of capital project budgets including forecasting and quoting a plus.
* Experience developing statements of work, project charters, and project plans.
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.
Who We Are
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.
What We Do
We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.
We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.
This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…
Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world.
Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities.
Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning.
How We Are Different
These commitments set our team apart from the rest:
Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.
Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.
Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.
Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care.
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.
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