Design Technician III

In this exciting Design Technician role, you will be part of the dedicated, experienced and high‑performing Engineering Development Services (EDS) team at Medtronic Rice Creek Central in Fridley, MN. The EDS team supports the design, development, and production of tooling and molds used in implantable devices for a variety of global Medtronic businesses. In this role you will gain experience with products across Medtronic’s portfolio, supporting your development and growth.

You will work as a key member on small and large technical teams, helping to develop and release new and improvements on existing manufacturing tooling designs.

• Partner with new product/process development or continuous improvement teams to design and document manual/semi‑automated manufacturing tooling, using the latest 3D solid modeling CAD design tools and best practices
• Develop design criteria with engineering, manufacturing, tooling, sourcing, supplier stakeholders to optimize specification control, manufacturability, and material availability
• Gather information, prepare original rough layouts and sketches, perform spatial/graphical analysis, tolerance and finite element analysis, present design proposals, negotiate performance/cost/risk/schedule tradeoffs, prepare and release formal documentation/drawings
• Prioritize and manage multiple concurrent projects and work tasks to help meet challenging deadlines
• Collaborate with manufacturing to ensure designs are robust and manufacturable
• Use geometric tolerancing and other appropriate methods to communicate design intent and promote design reliability and manufacturability
• Facilitate ECR/ECO’s to release and modify design documentation (BOM’s, specifications, drawings)
• Develop and improve design environment standard work and best practices to increase design productivity and/or reliability, manufacturability, cost

• Minimum of four years of relevant experience and may require vocational or technical education or certification in addition to prior work experience

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.

• Demonstrated mechanical aptitude – practical "hands on" experience – machining/fabrication, construction, assembly, mechanic, crafting, etc.
• CAD expertise, including advanced modules and methods (detailing, assembly, surfacing, optimization, FEA, etc.) – PTC Creo Parametric (preferred) and/or 3DS Solid Works
• Proficient at creating detailed mechanical drawings for piece parts and assemblies per ASME Y14.5 drafting standards and in compliance with ISO standards
• Experience in technical writing and presenting
• Associate Mechanical Design (or similar) degree OR Bachelor’s Mechanical Engineering
• Comfort with personal productivity tools, especially Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, Adobe Illustrator, SharePoint, WIKI, etc.
• Product Data Management experience with Windchill PDMLink, for use with Creo Parametric/ProE.
• Experience with geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)
• Experience with advanced CAD modeling, predictive analysis, and documentation concepts – top down design, model-based definition (MBD), design optimization, finite element analysis (FEA), tolerance analysis, requirements management
• Experience in manufacturing and/or design departments – materials, manufacturing processes, prototyping methods, tooling/equipment design, quality-driven/regulated industry
• Experience with Windchill (document management and ECR/ECO)

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.

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:
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