Senior Manufacturing Engineer - North Haven, CT

Senior Manufacturing 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 Senior Manufacturing Engineer provides technical leadership and daily manufacturing support for multiple product families within the Stapling product portfolio. This role focuses on maintaining and improving product quality, optimizing product cost, and advancing manufacturing processes while ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory requirements. The engineer will partner with cross-functional teams to support production, lead root cause investigations, qualify components, and implement process improvements.

In addition, the role drives project execution and continuous improvement initiatives that enhance operational efficiency and manufacturing performance.

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.

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

• Support in-service operating systems to ensure continued operation and maintenance and optimization throughout.
• Determine, select and implement technically feasible and economically viable alternatives for sustainment.
• Analyze and evaluate how to improve a system and/or equipment's sustainability under continued operation, maintenance and unexpected change.
• Develop design changes to resolve operational issues, introduce new materials and revises product, process and test specifications to enhance product quality, design integrity, reliability and manufacturability.
• Collect and evaluate service use and maintenance data; conduct root-cause analyses of in-service problems (e.g., operational hazards, deficiency reports, parts obsolescence, corrosion effects, reliability and maintainability trends, safety hazards, and failure causes and effects) and implement corrective action.

Must Have:
Minimum Requirements

• Requires a Bachelors degree in Engineering, Science or Technical field and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree in Engineering, Science or Technical field with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience.

Nice to Have

Knowledge/Experience with:

• ERP (BPCS) system
• Agile software for change development / change management processes
• Automated / semi-automated inspection systems (Cognex, Keyence)
• Automated / semi-automated assembly processes
• Manufacturing processes (stamping, machining, metal injection molding, plastic injection molding)
• Continuous improvement, process control, GD&T

Requires:

• Engineering degree in Manufacturing or Mechanical Engineering
• Background in manufacturing, designing efficient and productive layout of machines and process

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles:
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