Program Manager - Engineering Product Development

$132,000 - $198,000/Yr

Medtronic - Mounds View, MN

Full-time - Mid Level

Mounds View, MN

10,001+ employees

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

The Program Manager for Engineering Product Development at Medtronic is responsible for leading global operations and supply chain efforts on new product introduction (NPI) projects and managing released product updates. This role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure successful product development and commercialization, while advocating for operational needs and maintaining project metrics.

Responsibilities

• Advocate for and represent Operations to a cross-functional team related to project and business needs.
• Accountability and leadership for overall project execution, including project planning, budgeting, schedule creation, risk management, issue resolution, execution, and release strategy.
• Lead through influence in a matrixed, cross-cultural organization.
• Lead all manufacturing and supply chain schedule risk burn down.
• Define and meet operations objectives: Labor, Burden, Material, Cycle Time, Capacity, Yield, Process Ppk, etc.
• Drive operations program schedules, scope, materials, resources, expenditures, and funding.
• Ensure the quality policy/system is planned, understood, implemented, and maintained.
• Ensure operations aspects of Quality System Compliance, Design History File, and Regulatory submissions are properly documented.
• Coordinate development builds across value streams.
• Lead decision making for facility locations, make-buy decisions, and business continuity.
• Ensure structured problem methods and predictive engineering principles are consistently applied, such as DRM, Design for Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, or similar concepts.
• Provide tactical and/or operational leadership and coaching to operations team and extended operations team.
• Provide indirect people management and development.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant engineering experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant engineering experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Program or project management experience leading a complex new product or new process development including launch operations costing and financial accountability.
• PMP Certification.
• DRM Green Belt.
• Experience in new product or new process development including launch operations.
• Experience working in medical device or other regulated industry.
• Technical expertise in qualifications such as validation including IQ/OQ/PQ, CPAP, or related.
• Experience supervising or managing others.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Flexible Benefits Package
• Short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP)