About the Role
Title: Engineering Program Manager – Remote
Location: USA-
time type
Full time
job requisition id
R10042
Job Description:
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 Molding and Capital Tooling team is seeking a detail oriented, organized engineering program manager that will be responsible for clear strategy and action plans for the intake and launch process phases of the Molding and Capital Tooling workflow. This entails communicating with OU’s and Supplier stakeholders to generate intake list for each fiscal year’s launch plan for refurbishments or replacement of existing tooling. This requires clearly communicating to a variety of stakeholders (Manufacturing, operations, sourcing) and collaboration with other strategic GOSC programs (STOP, VAVE etc..) to successfully develop a plan and aid in execution for the launch of new projects to align with the Molding and Capital Tooling charter, to minimize risk to Medtronic supply chain for injection molded components.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Plans, directs and implements all aspects of the company’s design and development of new medical device products or software systems.
- May develop, evaluate, implement and maintain technical quality assurance and control systems or reliability systems and standards pertaining to materials, techniques, or company products.
- Oversees the investigation and evaluation of existing technologies.
- Guides the conceptualization of new methodologies, materials, machines, processes or products.
- Directs the development of new concepts from initial design to market release.
- Manages feasibility studies of the design to determine if capable of functioning as intended.
- Monitors documentation maintenance throughout all phases of research and development.
- Organizes the coordination of activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery.
- Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
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) and minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
Nice To Have
- A good understanding of Thermoplastic injection molding principles, Injection Mold tool design, and Component qualification processes (PPAP).
- Familiar with project management practices and principles and have previous experience managing large, complex, or multiple projects.
- Core to this role are managing and understanding resource allocation, project scheduling, planning, budget and cost tracking/management.
- Prior medical device experience a plu