Director Performance Engineering Jobs in Minnesota

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Join our team as the Manufacturing Engineering Director where you will lead Manufacturing Engineering, leading the sustaining engineering strategy, performance, and continuous improvement of Plymouth Nathan Lane's production lines. The role will ensure products are produced safely, with high quality, reliably, and efficiently, by developing robust manufacturing processes. The Plymouth Nathan Lane facility positively impacts over 1 million patients each year.
At Medtronic, we must work with a sense of purpose and ownership, knowing there is a human life on the other side of every decision.
At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We're working a minimum of 5 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

At Medtronic, Engineers are indispensable to achieving our Mission. That's why we empower you to bring the best of your experience to bear on our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Apply your existing skills and develop new ones, with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to continue to develop your expertise. With roles in specific business units, as well as at the corporate level, you're sure to find an opportunity to make an impact that's right for you.

As the Manufacturing Engineering Director, you have the following responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership and Operational Oversight

• Guide, deploy, and execute the Medtronic Performance System (MPS), our "one best way" methodology and tools that support our holistic operational excellence program.

• Oversee, manage, and optimize 24/5 manufacturing in peripheral vascular product manufacturing.

• Develop a high-performance engineering team to efficiently drive continuous improvement.

• Hire, coach, develop, and performance manage talent within the department.

• Develop and execute multi-year strategic Engineering roadmaps.

• Collaborate with Design, Quality, Sourcing, Planning, Operations, and OpEx to achieve KPI goals.

• Interface with Senior Management to communicate/report progress on critical projects.

• Partner with fellow Tier 4 (Site Leadership team) and key business stakeholders to align on priorities and resources

• Meet or exceed defined deliverables for Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost.

• Manage overall department budget.

Engineering and Technical Management

• Develop, organize, and lead activities to significantly improve scrap and yield performance.

• Identify, align, prioritize, and resource key projects to improve quality and efficiency.

• Provide technical oversight and mentoring to resolve complex product and process issues.

• Lead the team to drive continuous improvement.

• Identify and deploy capital equipment ahead of demand.

• Partner with the Advanced Engineering Org to receive New Product Introduction (NPI) into production.

• Utilize and coach methods and tools like DMAIC, Six Sigma, Red X, Root Cause Analysis, to lead the organization to solve problems.

Quality and Compliance

• Focus and achieve high product quality and reliability for our patients.

• Ensure the team is compliant with internal and external quality requirements.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.

• Bachelor's degree and minimum 10 years relevant manufacturing engineering experience with 7+ years of people management experience, OR Advanced degree with a minimum 8 years relevant manufacturing engineering experience with 7+ years of people management experience.

Nice to Have:

• Proven track record of strong relationships in a matrixed organizational structure, cross-functionally, with leadership and with direct labor/production staff.

• Understanding of Qualification protocols - IQ/OQ/PQ.

• Demonstrated ability to lead in an FDA-regulated environment.

• Demonstrated change agent driving improvement in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost KPIs.

• Engineering Degree (preferably: Mechanical or Electrical Engineering).

• Green or Black Belt certification.

• Demonstrated experience managing large, complex transformation initiatives with high level of visibility and business criticality.

• Ability to lead, energize and influence change efforts at all levels of a complex organization.

• Hands-on experience managing cross-functional projects across businesses, sites, or regions.

• Experience with preventative/corrective action process.

• Experience working within a quality system or regulated industry with subsequent knowledge of appropriate documentation and or quality requirements.

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

Physical Job Requirements

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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.

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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.

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance,Health Savings Account,Healthcare Flexible Spending Account,Life insurance, Long-term disability leave,Dependent daycare spending account,Tuition assistance/reimbursement, andSimple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match,Short-term disability,Paid time off,Paid holidays,Employee Stock Purchase Plan,Employee Assistance Program,Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), andCapital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

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