Careers that Change Lives:
Engineers and Scientists create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Join us to make a lasting impact. Help bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide. Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.
This Principal R and D Engineer will engage in the following activities:
•Drive new technology creation and aligned product requirements flow down from VOC
•Lead R&D teams to meet goals and timelines, applying course corrections as needed to retire risk
•Find Solutions – Drive complex system development to meet mechanical, electrical, software, and system-level requirements
•Own Outcomes – Use Predictable Product Development/DRM tools to effectively reach objectives
•Acknowledging Reality – Employ strong Risk Control Measures, work with other functions, manage constraints of resources, police Contract cope and display crisp decision-making
A Day in the Life:
The Principal R&D Engineer is a primary contributor within the Medtronic R&D organization to lead multi-disciplinary teams functioning as the R&D Core Team Member reporting into and being accountable to the core team to execute programs achieving cost, time and technical goals.
This role will contribute to a fast-paced R&D environment, working within a team to deliver advanced technical expertise and solutions to complex engineering problems:
•Leading or leveraging cross functional teams to evaluate, develop and manage the technical aspects of projects for new product development and ongoing lifecycle management of products, processes and therapies.
•Oversees and manages the operational aspects of development engineering and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management.
•Manages the development and implementation process of a company’s products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products and processes.
•Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages engineering team schedules and prepares status reports.
•Provides higher level R&D program support from initiation through launch.
•Assesses engineering issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
•Develops mechanisms for monitoring engineering discipline, mechanical, electrical, software and systems progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.
•Gathers requirements, works on requirements planning, requirements elicitation and requirements management to ensure they meet demands of project’s key stakeholders.
•Authors and leads engineering solutions-based trade-off discussions rapidly achieving directional decisions.
•Communicates with stakeholders, obtains stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems.