Quality Engineer I - Final Release

Quality Engineer

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.

Our Purpose

At our Quality Department in Medtronic, plc, we focus on supporting the product value stream to ensure that customer and patient needs are met every day. Our key focus is on delivering and maintaining a high level of Quality to ensure that business and performance goals are achieved. The Quality Engineer role is critical in supporting key department metrics thus contributing to the global strategy and to deliver on our mission to contribute to human welfare by supporting the manufacture of products that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.

A Day In The Life Of:

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

• Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality standards and protocol for releasing finished sterilised product under supervision
• Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Participates in preparing/critically reviewing NCMRs/CAPAs and investigations providing QA technical direction and solutions as appropriate.
• Ensures effective product control measures in the event of issues being noted.
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
• Contribute to continuous improvement activities
• Ensure compliance to all applicable department, site-wide procedures, and regulations.
• Support Internal and External audit preparation and activity which includes application and maintenance of quality standards for all activities associated.

Key Skills & Experience

• Minimum Level 7 Degree in Engineering/Science or related discipline with a minimum 1-year relevant direct Science/Engineering experience within medical device environment.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and organizational skills.
• Practical working knowledge of statistical data analysis, problem solving and quality improvement tools and techniques preferable.
• Technical writing skills.
• Ability to multi-task and to take initiative is essential.
• Effective time management skills.
• Builds and maintains positive relationships with others; shows respect and consideration for others.

Medtronic offers a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package.

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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.