At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
Medtronic
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Our Purpose
At our Operational Excellence Department in Medtronic, plc, we focus on supporting Product Value streams to ensure that customer & patient needs are met every day. Our focus is on delivering and maintaining high maturity improvement processes through deployment and use of our Medtronic Performance System (MPS) and maintaining high-quality performance within our Teams. The Process Engineer I is directly involved in the achievement of our mission to contribute to human welfare by manufacturing products that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.
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A Day in The Life Of:
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Support deployment and coaching of the Medtronic Performance system (MPS) across the Parkmore site within one of the specific business areas
- Plans, performs and implements process improvement initiatives (such as Lean or Six Sigma).
- Diagrams and evaluates existing processes.
- Organizes, leads and facilitates cross-functional project teams.
- Develops metrics that provide data for process measurement, identifying indicators for future improvement opportunities.
- Collects data to identify root cause of problems.
- Measures performance against process requirements.
- Aligns improvement to performance shortfalls.
- Provides consultation on the use of re-engineering techniques to improve process performance and product quality.
- May deliver presentations and training courses including measurement, analysis, improvement and control.
- Surveys and analyzes best practices for techniques and processes.
- Communicates team progress.
- Performs cost and benefit analyses.
Key Skills & Experience
- 1 year of experience in manufacturing with minimum demonstrated exposure to lean and six sigma techniques
- Good capability in some of the following tools: Value Stream Mapping, Work Method Analysis, DMAIC Problem Solving, 5Whys, 5S deployment, 8Wastes (Zero Loss thinking) Standard Work Creation and Line Balance and other lean/six sigma tools as appropriate
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills at all levels of the organization
- Good ability in Cost/Benefit analysis in Labour and Material.
- Good analytical ability on Inventory reduction opportunities.
Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package
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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.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here