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A Day in the Life
Medtronic
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Our Purpose
Medtronic's Cardiac Ablation Solutions division is searching for a Sr Principal PD Project Management Specialist to join our Product Development team working on new catheter designs.
Cardiac Ablation Solutions is developing next generation medical technologies that treat patients with abnormal heart rhythms. Our technologies save lives and improves the quality of living for millions of patients across the world by advancing innovation for the diagnosis and ablation of cardiac arrhythmias and enabling clinicians to perform procedures with superior outcomes.
As a Project Management Specialist, you will be responsible for coordinating and supporting a range of new product development activities on large, moderately complex projects. You will work independently to implement strategic goals and establish operational plans, and coordinate with Project Management, R&D, Quality, Operations, Regulatory, and other functions to deliver products to our customers.
Come for a job, stay for a career!
A Day in The Life Of:
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Be a recognized expert in your role, manage large projects or processes. Provides guidance, coaching and training to other employees within the job area.
- Support PMO specific initiatives within CAS and collaborate across other OUs on specific activities (e.g. Peer reviews, training or review/update of harmonized procedures).
- Communicate organizational capacity constraints, program risks, issues and decisions to core team leader, cross functional core team members and key stakeholders.
- Develops and executes project plans, including schedules, budgets, and resources.
- Ensures adherence to design control requirements.
- Defines and negotiates project resource requirements.
- Manages project budgets and oversees capital expenditures.
- Monitors the project from initiation through delivery.
- Develops risk mitigation plans.
- Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress.
- Travels up to 10% of the time.
Key Skills & Experience
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
- Requires a Level 8 Degree and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
Nice to Have
- Experience with ablation products and therapies (e.g., catheters, generators)
- Strong understanding of medical device regulations (e.g., IEC 60601, IEC 62304, ISO 14971, ISO 13485)
- Experience with Microsoft Project and ProChain scheduling methodologies
- Skilled in organizing work for unstructured problems or execution tasks
- Broad engineering knowledge across product development functions
- Ability to effectively interface and communicate with employees at all organizational levels
- Strength in working with cross-functional teams across facilities to solve problems
- Ability to work independently and take the initiative on tasks
- Exceptional influencing and interpersonal skills, negotiating, managing change, resolving conflict
- Master’s degree in Engineering and/or scientific discipline, or MBA
- PMP certification
- Lean/Six Sigma certification
Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package
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.