Senior Quality Engineer

Senior 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.

The Brooklyn Center facility also known as Medtronic Electronics Components Center (MECC) supports the production of components used in devices for a variety of Medtronic Operating Units (OUs). The Senior Quality Engineer serves as the Quality decision-making partner on cross-functional development and sustaining engineering teams at the MECC site. This role leads risk-based quality planning across design, manufacturing, and supplier interfaces, providing strategic quality guidance throughout the product lifecycle.

The Senior Quality Engineer is accountable for ensuring quality readiness prior to MECC Decision Points (MDPs) and market release, proactively identifying and mitigating risks to ensure compliance and product integrity. It will require a strong working knowledge of QMS requirements, advanced risk management methodologies, and the ability to influence across functions through clear, effective communication. A high level of attention to detail, sound judgment, and continuous improvement mindset are essential.

In this role you will be working on a team that handles a combination of projects for New Product Introductions (NPI) as well as Capacity Expansion and Sustaining / Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Projects supporting Global Supply Chain and Operations.

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 4 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.

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

• 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, and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.

Must Have:
Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile.

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Science or technical field with 4+ years of work experience in Engineering and/or Quality OR Advanced Degree in Engineering, Science or technical field with 2+ years of work experience in Engineering and/or Quality OR PhD with 0 year of experience.

Nice to Have

• CAPA (Corrective Action / Preventive Action) experience
• Familiarity with Minitab Statistical Software
• Lean Six Sigma training, DRM Training
• Experience working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
• Validation Experience (IQ, OQ, TMV, PQ)
• Experience with Active Implantables:
  Batteries and/or Components
• High level of attention to detail and well organized to manage multiple projects at time

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.

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. 

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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