Program Manager - Engineering Product Development

$132,000 - $198,000/Yr

Medtronic - Tempe, AZ

Full-time - Mid Level

Tempe, AZ

10,001+ employees

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

The Program Manager - Engineering Product Development at Medtronic is responsible for leading global operations and supply chain on new product introduction (NPI) projects and released product management (RPM). This role involves advocating for operations within cross-functional teams, ensuring project execution, and managing various operational aspects to drive successful product development and commercialization.

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, business continuity.
• Ensure structured problem methods and predictive engineering principles are consistently and rigorously 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 (LBM, OPC, Inventory deferrals, capital project management, etc.) 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.
• Experience or extensive knowledge of at least 2 related disciplines such as Product development, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply chain planning/capacity planning for launch, Technical expertise in qualifications (i.e., validation including IQ/OQ/PQ, CPAP, or related), Sourcing including component qualification, Quality engineering including new product, Design for Manufacturability (DMR/DFSS or similar methodology).
• Experience supervising or managing others.

Benefits

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