Senior Operations Engineering Program Manager - Sensors

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

Senior Operations Engineering Program Manager - Sensors

Diabetes OU

Medtronic Diabetes is establishing a manufacturing footprint with contract manufacturers in Ireland for CGMs and Pumps. Given the criticality of these partnerships we are currently building our Product Innovation and Operations team for Ireland.

This team is partnering closely with our suppliers to set us up for success in both our current and next generation wearables. In this role you will work closely with your Diabetes Innovation and Operations peers and our contract manufacturers to bring life changing new technologies to market thus improving the lives of people living with Diabetes

Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life Of:

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between the innovation team and our key contract manufacturing partners
• Monitors the project from initiation through to commercial delivery.
• Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with your R&D peers and onwards to manufacturing ramp up.
• You will evaluate device designs using DFM methodology and review testing on early-stage designs providing timely feedback to the innovation group
• You will lead the troubleshooting of manufacturing design/manufacturing issues day-to-day and provide technical solutions via analysis and hands-on interaction to your innovation peers and our suppliers.
• You will review manufacturing scale up plans and own the CM partner performance from Development through Capacity Ramp onto sustaining
• You will compile, document, and present all learnings to the Diabetes leadership team.
  
  
  

Key Skills & Experience

• Requires a level 8 degree and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 7 years relevant experience
• Distinct Advantage to have experience in a high volume automated environment.
• A dynamic team player and can work effectively and proactively on cross-functional teams, with strong attention to detail.
• Knowledge of SAP/Agile and CAD systems is a distinct advantage.
• Ability to demonstrate Medtronic Mindset in their work and good presentation skills are desirable.
• We are looking for a good technical communicator and fluency in English, both in writing and speaking.
  
  
  

Physical Job Requirements

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

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.

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.

Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.

We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

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