Principal R&D Engineer

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

Help streamline and speed our time to market and build quality in at every step.

You will be a member of the Global Operation and Supply Chain - Strategy and Network team that supports the VAVE program for Surgical and other business portfolios.

This role involves collaboration with cross-functional partners such as R&D, Quality, reliability, regulatory, operations, and sourcing colleagues to evaluate and implement VAVE changes.

Represent the VAVE organization as a prime talent a wide variety of VAVE projects.

You can grow your career with us; we hope you’ll consider joining our team!

Help streamline and speed our time to market and build quality in at every step.

You will be a member of the Global Operation and Supply Chain - Strategy and Network team that supports the VAVE program for Surgical and other business portfolios.

This role involves collaboration with cross-functional partners such as R&D, Quality, reliability, regulatory, operations, and sourcing colleagues to evaluate and implement VAVE changes.

Represent the VAVE organization as a prime talent a wide variety of VAVE projects.

You can grow your career with us; we hope you’ll consider joining our team!

Interact with personnel on significant technical matters often requiring coordination between organizations

• Lead Change Development Process from start to finish and assess VAVE project deliverables and critical milestones, working in collaboration with multi-disciplinary functions and VAVE Program leads.
• Drive technical discussions related to critical activities for VAVE project execution
• Coordinate design technical reviews in collaboration with multi-disciplinary functions – Supplier Quality, Regulatory, R&D , Manufacturing, Project Management,
• Support on documentation and engineering change order creation in PLM System
• Support on Design Verification and Validation activities , performed locally or at US Site.
• Provides problem solving / trouble shooting support to manufacturing sites and key suppliers to increase yields, maintain process capability, and improve efficiency and cost.
• Own PPAP process (As applicable) in support of VAVE project execution activities
• Drive technical PPAP discussions at site and supplier levels
• Conduct Design Verification and Validation assessment support related to PPAP
• Conduct Risk Management file reviews and updates.

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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.

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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity