Senior Controls Manufacturing Engineer

Senior Controls Manufacturing Engineer

The Senior Controls Manufacturing Engineer provides electrical and controls engineering support for multiple manufacturing areas within the Medtronic North Haven Manufacturing facility. This role leads and supports initiatives focused on cost savings, manufacturing process improvements, assembly equipment retrofits, and the procurement and implementation of new manufacturing equipment. The engineer collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure manufacturing equipment meets Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) requirements and consistently produces high-quality assemblies that meet product specifications.

Responsibilities include developing and maintaining engineering standards and best practices, supporting validation activities through the development and execution of defining documents and IQ protocols, and ensuring all required equipment documentation is created and maintained, including operating instructions, electrical schematics, equipment specifications, parameter settings, and software backups.

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

• Designs, implements, supports, and troubleshoots Cognex Vision Systems (In-Sight Explorer, In-Sight Vision Suite), Keyence Vision Sensors (IX series, IV series), Fiber optic and laser sensors, safety circuits, and more for critical automated and semi-automated medical manufacturing equipment
• Designs manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining and material handling.
• Designs arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout.
• Designs sequence of operations and specifies procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance.
• Adapts machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions.
• May incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan.
• Inspects performance of machinery, equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency, and investigates and initiates corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure product quality.
• Develops manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control, and may develop those techniques.
• Provides guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.
• Ensures processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.

Must Have:
Minimum Requirements

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

• Requires a Bachelor's degree with at least 4 years of relevant experience, a Master's degree with at least 2 years of relevant experience, or a PhD with no prior relevant experience required.

Nice to Have

• Experience with PLC/HMI programming and troubleshooting in automated manufacturing
• Experience with robotics, vision systems, motion control, or industrial networking
• Background in regulated manufacturing environments such as medical device or pharma
• Familiarity with equipment validation, change control, and quality systems
• Proven success improving equipment reliability, uptime, yield, or cycle time
• Experience leading cross-functional projects and mentoring others
• Exposure to manufacturing data tools such as MES, SQL, Python, or Power BI

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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