Engineering Manager

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 LifeCareers that Change Lives What does it take to be an Engineering Manager at Medtronic? We are looking for inspiring and inclusive leaders who can effectively collaborate with others, recognizing that diverse talents, skills, and perspectives contribute to better outcomes. In this exciting role, the Engineering Manager leads and manages the team in the Surgical department. The individual will closely collaborate with all necessary stakeholders to discuss strategies, programs, operating issues, opportunities, and decisions, with the ultimate goal of building a strong and growing team.
We look for leaders who have a clear vision of where we are going and how to get there, bold inclusive thinkers who create new ideas and bring our best solutions forward to benefit our patients, business partners, and customers.
A Day in the Life
As the overseer of a team of Engineers responsible for completing engineering projects, this role manages a diverse group of professionals, both new and experienced. The Engineering Manager transforms the site strategy into a tangible reality by formulating, communicating, and executing business plans to achieve desired results. The position involves initiating programs or projects based on identified business and tactical needs, and the decisions made directly impact projects, operations, deadlines, resource allocation, funds, and the overall achievement of organizational objectives.

Responsibilities:

Stakeholder Management:

• Individual need strong interpersonal and communication skills to build and maintain relationships with global stakeholders.
• They should be able to understand global team’s requirements, manage expectations, and ensure stakeholder’s satisfaction throughout the collaboration process.

People Leadership:

• Individual should possess leadership qualities to guide and motivate the team members.
• This includes the ability to setting up ambitious departmental goals, performance expectations, provide clear directions, manage day to day function, hire, inspire collaboration and teamwork.
• Fosters continuous improvement of team members' product knowledge and technical skills.
• Develops career paths for employees and provides coaching and mentoring.
• Builds and maintains a high-performance team and fosters a culture of excellence.

Project Management:

• Individual often oversee multiple projects or initiatives. They need strong project management skills to plan, organize, and coordinate resources, timelines, and deliverables.
• Individual has an ability to think big picture of existing program scope and make a strategical plan to leverage the Medtronic India Talents.
• Reviews work output to ensure project objectives and quality standards are met.

Technical Knowledge:  

• Drives successful project execution and provides leadership in addressing technical challenges and critical trade-off decisions.

• Candidates must prioritize patient safety and customer service, set high standards, instill operational excellence, promote accountability, and model ethical behavior.

 Education Qualification:

• Bachelor of Engineering/ Technology in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Bio Medical Engineering, or related fields

• MS /MTech/ME preferred.
• M.B.A preferred.

Must Haves / Minimum Experience

• Minimum of 15 years of applicable work experience in a product organization
• Minimum 4 Years’ experience in a managerial role leading larger engineering teams.

• Medical Device Directives (MDD). ISO procedures / Other Nation & International Standards, FDA requirements and guidance, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) would be a plus.
• Maintains knowledge of current regulatory requirements and standards as they pertain to the development and release of medical devices.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, negotiating; managing change; goal setting; planning and organizing teamwork; ability to address difficult situations.
• Demonstrated success executing engineering projects with diverse technical teams, management of globally dispersed teams highly preferred.

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.
 

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 90,000+ 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