Principal Manufacturing Engineer

Medtronic - North Haven, CT

Full-time - Principal

North Haven, CT

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

At Medtronic, you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. As a Principal Manufacturing Engineer, you will lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, passionate world. Engineers at Medtronic create our market-leading portfolio of innovations, and you will have the opportunity to make a lasting impact by helping to bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide. In this role, you will be responsible for designing manufacturing processes, procedures, and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining, and material handling. You will design the arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure the most efficient and productive layout. Additionally, you will design the sequence of operations and specify procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment, as well as other functions that affect product performance. Adapting machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions will also be a key part of your responsibilities. You may incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan and will be tasked with inspecting the performance of machinery, equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency. Investigating and initiating corrective action for problems and deficiencies will be essential to ensure product quality. You will develop manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control and may develop those techniques further. Providing guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques will also be part of your role. Ensuring that processes and procedures comply with regulations is a critical aspect of this position.

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 are in compliance with regulations.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree required.
• Requires a University Degree and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Implementation of Software releases into manufacturing associated to test automation
• Knowledge of Capital equipment production (low volume, high complexity)
• Production Software release/design transfer of Software into a production setting
• Knowledge of capital equipment production with experience on motors and sensors and electro-mechanical assemblies
• DMAIC and Lean manufacturing experience (Black belt certifications)