Quality Engineer II

Quality Engineer

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

Join a world-class medical device manufacturing site in Fort Worth, Texas with Medtronic! As a Quality Engineer at Medtronic Fort Worth, you will work at the forefront of spine surgery medical device manufacturing, supporting manufacturing operations by driving product and process quality, resolving issues, and ensuring compliance with applicable quality system and regulatory requirements. In this role, you will partner closely with manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, and other cross-functional teams to investigate nonconformances, support corrective and preventive actions, and improve process capability and product reliability.

You will also help implement quality improvement initiatives, support audits and inspections, and contribute to the overall effectiveness of the site's quality management system.

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop, modify, apply and maintain quality standards and protocol for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
• Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Devise and implement methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
• Design or specify inspection and testing mechanisms and equipment; conduct quality assurance tests; and perform statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
• May specialize in the areas of design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Science or technical field with 2+ years of work experience in Engineering and/or Quality OR Advanced Degree in Engineering, Science or technical field with 0+ years of work experience in Engineering and/or Quality

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Medical Device or another highly regulated industry
• Experience in Problem Solving / Lean Six Sigma
• Experience in Statistical Methods or Data Analysis
• Experience in Process Validation
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• ASQ CQE, CQA certification is a plus

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job. 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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