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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

We are transforming towards a High-Performance Culture, promoting ownership and bold acting and driving Excellence in Operations. In line with this transformation, we are combining our value chain "enabling" functions – Manufacturing Engineering, Maintenance & Facility Services and Operational Excellence - into a new, multidisciplinary support department, while attracting additional talents.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

• Build a successful support team, consisting of Manufacturing Engineering, Maintenance & Facility Services and Operational Excellence (expanding from 4 to 6 FTE)

• Develop existing and new talents towards high performers

• Troubleshoot and improve processes, focused on unburdening our manufacturing-, inspection- and warehouse teams

• Embed continuous improvement and simplification in our value chain

• Further deploy our Medtronic Performance System (MPS), thereby optimizing reliability, productivity, throughput times, compliance and safety

• Foster effective Tier management and support problem-solving

• Boost equipment reliability and capacity utilization

• Drive process automation and digitization and promote data analysis and visualization

• Manage continuous improvement projects and facilitate workshops

• Take Process Validation to the next level, in line with applicable standards in the medical device arena

• Optimize alignment with other enabling functions, like Planning, Safety, Quality, Sourcing and Product Engineering

Required Knowledge and Experience

Enjoying a track record with performance improvement successes, you are a mid-career senior engineer, eager to transfer your broad expertise to others. You boost performance and make it visible. You are committed to build coherent teams. You play to win and make people excel. You recognize talent and are culturally savvy. You balance patience with drive and manage by example. You orchestrate mindset-transformations towards unburdening the internal customer. You drive continuous improvement and simplification. You take businesses up the digitization-ladder. You embrace Gemba walks and you are visible. You report concisely. You are determined, self-managing and well-organized. And you feel at home in the world of medical device manufacturing.

Must Haves

• 10+ years of multi-company working experience in several engineering roles in a manufacturing environment

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in industrial engineering, Mechanical Engineering or similar

• Well-developed coaching skills and comfortable with applying modern management techniques in small teams

• Broad understanding and vision about industrial engineering, production technology, preventive maintenance, trouble shooting, integrated quality and factory-safety

• Excellence in continuous improvement with proven track record of achieving outstanding performance in discrete manufacturing environments

• Demonstrated successes in managing change and transformation in a multidisciplinary organization

• Strong project management expertise and outstanding documenting-, reporting- and presenting skills

Nice to Haves

• Fluency in Dutch and English (oral and writing)

• Knowledge of process automation and business digitization

• Insights in equipment investment planning

• Advanced software expertise (office, business intelligence reporting, data )

• Working expertise in and / or strong affinity with highly regulated industries, like medical devices or pharma

• Willingness to incidentally (< 5%) travel internationally to other Medtronic locations

• Preferably, a Lean Six Sigma black belt certification and perhaps even real-life experience in Performance Management System rollouts and some international working experience

Physical Job Requirements

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 90,000+ 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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here (http://www.medtronic.com)

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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 90,000+ 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.

We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world

• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities

• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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