Senior Controls Manufacturing Engineer

About the role

The Senior Controls Manufacturing Engineer role at Medtronic involves providing 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.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains engineering standards and best practices
• Supports validation activities through the development and execution of defining documents and IQ protocols
• Ensures all required equipment documentation is created and maintained, including operating instructions, electrical schematics, equipment specifications, parameter settings, and software backups
• Designs, implements, supports, and troubleshoots Cognex Vision Systems, Keyence Vision Sensors, 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
• Incorporates 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

Requirements

• Minimum Requirements: 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, proven success leading cross-functional projects and mentoring others, exposure to manufacturing data tools such as MES, SQL, Python, or Power BI.

Qualifications

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

Skills

Must have experience with 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.

Benefits

Competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package including Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).