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Design Quality Engineer - I

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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
In this exciting role as a Design Quality Engineer I, you will be an integral team member for projects in the released product management (RPM) portfolio of Acute Care & Monitoring business at Medtronic. This role is focused on design quality and reliability across a wide range of products, projects, and initiatives in the portfolio. You will cover areas such as Quality Improvement Projects, Op Ex Projects, updates for the evolving standards/regulatory landscape, internal process/system infrastructure, monitoring/evaluation of released product performance, and more. You will ensure that products are of the highest possible quality and reliability, customer expectations are met, design controls are implemented, and that we achieve compliance with regulations, standards, and procedures. You will also ensure changes to product designs, manufacturing, distribution, and service/repair are able to achieve project objectives while avoiding negative impacts to product quality/reliability. This position will work across projects that touch hardware and software medical devices.
A Day in the Life
  • Provide quality support for design changes, process changes, and sustaining engineering projects as a design quality engineer.
  • Solve challenging problems with a creative, thorough, objective, and solutions-oriented approach.
  • Use your technical skills and knowledge to discover and implement optimal solutions to a wide variety of challenges faced across many technical disciplines.
  • Create/maintain risk management file.
  • Ensure user needs, product requirements, design specifications, test methods, and design V&V activities are appropriate. You will need to have a big picture "systems" mindset of products, while also diving into details where needed.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally (R&D, operations, regulatory, marketing, project management, etc) and work independently to complete tasks.
  • Interact with auditing bodies during audits to demonstrate compliance with regulations and quality systems.
  • Promote continuous improvement and drive product superiority using DRM/DFSS (Design, Reliability, Manufacturability), lean, and other methodologies as applicable.
  • Apply reliability engineering principles for software and hardware products.
  • Support released product quality activities for complaint trending, Post Market Surveillance, CAPA investigation and execution, and IIA (Issue Impact Assessment).
  • Support QMS improvements - Identify opportunities, draft changes, and deploy
  • Proactively seek out opportunities to drive product and process improvements - You will be a change leader and work cross-functionally to implement solutions.

Nice to Have (Preferred Qualifications)
  • Excellent communication skills - written and verbal
  • Experience with technical standards and/or medical device standards/regulations
  • Knowledge of design controls


Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
  • Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality standards and protocol for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
  • Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
  • Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
  • Designs or specifies inspection and testing mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
  • Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
  • May specialize in the areas of design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.


TECHNICAL SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: An individual contributor with responsibility in our technical functions to advance existing technology or introduce new technology and therapies. Formulates, delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering R&D, systems or initiatives related to new technologies or therapies - from design to implementation - while adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Entry-level individual contributor on a project or work team.
Works with close supervision.

Organizational Impact: Delivers work of limited scope, typically smaller, less complex projects or related activities.

Innovation and Complexity: Identifies, defines and addresses problems that are not immediately evident but typically not difficult or complex.
Makes minor changes in systems and processes to solve problems.

Communication and Influence: Communicates primarily with internal contacts within immediate group.
Contacts others to gather, confirm and convey information.

Leadership and Talent Management: N / A - job at this level is focused on self-development.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires broad theoretical job knowledge typically obtained through advanced education.
Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A), 0 years of experience 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.

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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$62,400.00 - $93,600.00

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

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

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 90,000+ 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.

At Medtronic, most positions are posted on our career site for 3-7 days.
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