Boulder, CO, 80305, USA
13 days ago
Senior Mechanical 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. **A Day in the Life** At Medtronic, making global healthcare better is our priority. Beyond our mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend lives, we partner to create seamless, more efficient care. You will be a senior member of the technology and product development team within the Acute Care Monitoring (ACM) Business Unit, McGRATH Franchise. Specifically, you will join a high-growth R&D team focused on creating category-redefining products that truly address unmet customer needs in the airway management domain. Our team originated from Medtronic’s acquisition of Aircraft Medical, which designed the McGrath Mac Video Laryngoscope. The team is design-led and follows a human-centered design process to deliver thoughtful and inspiring products. Even within a large organization like Medtronic, the team aims to maintain its startup mentality. You will work in a cooperative workspace with key, cross-functional partners. Every day, you’ll be collaborating with other designers, design researchers, clinical scientists, marketers, engineers from multiple disciplines, and manufacturing experts, all with a “can do, will do” spirit. We are eager to add new members who can bring fresh ideas and new skill sets. Particularly, we are looking for people who have the instinct and enthusiasm for disruption. **A Day in the Life** As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you will be a key contributor to our design-centric product development process. Through the design journey, you will work with cross-functional teams to create thoughtful and user-friendly solutions that positively impact clinicians and patients who are the end users we serve. You will be a senior member of the technology and/or product development team that supports the design and development of innovative, new products within ACM, specifically focusing on airway management. You will apply advanced technical strategy and concepts to solve complex problems and distill these down to simple, elegant product offerings which strike the appropriate balance of functionality and user engagement. We count on you to strengthen our procedural fluency in your specialty and to push the edges of how we produce beautiful products that inspire both internal and external stakeholders. **Responsibilities Include:** + Lead and maintain technical knowledge current with advancing technology related to the development of airway management devices. + Develop and implement early phase mechanical concept design, perform tolerance analysis, finite element analysis, or other design analysis. + Design components to be manufactured via plastic injection molding, stamping, machining, extrusion, and related processes. Work with manufacturing to consider high volume assembly processes in design concepts. + Design of fixtures to support data collection and/or laboratory pilot builds. + Ensure designs meet and exceed product specifications, regulatory requirements, and international standards. + Provide technical feasibility assessments. + Develop specifications, test methodologies, and test equipment to evaluate design concepts. + Perform calculations, analyses, and engineering testing to verify the designs. Documentresults in reports and laboratory notebooks. + Create and release engineering drawings. + Process engineering change orders. + Work with suppliers to ensure components meet design requirements & diagnose design problems. + Travel to vendor locations and customers, global and domestic, as needed to help ensure programs meet deadlines and troubleshoot issues. + Collaborate with other departments within Medtronic on development projects. + Present technical findings or project status to cross-functional teams and management through meeting minutes, design reviews, presentations, and other means of communication. + Recommend various technology options or approaches for system, processes, facility, or program improvements in terms of safety, performance, efficiency, or costs. + Support the transfer between phases of the project life cycle. + Up to 20% domestic and/or international travel. **Nice to Have:** + Experience with the design and manufacture of medical devices + Familiarity with quality systems + Experience in product design and development in an R&D environment, familiar with surface modeling, and able to design a mechanism from scratch + Experience in polymer material selection + Experience with optics + Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects + Medical device or healthcare industry experience + Experience creating technical, written content + Demonstrated data analysis skills + Ability to interpret technical drawings and creating Bill of Materials + Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills + Experience designing and developing portable miniature electromechanical assemblies + Hands-on, handy with measuring equipment and/or able to learn how to use new equipment fast + Solid understanding of contemporary manufacturing techniques + Understanding of color, material, and finishing principles (CMF) + Strong interpersonal skills + Effective problem-solving skills **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.  The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. **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. Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$98,400.00 - $147,600.00 This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others). Medtronic benefits and compensation plans (https://www3.benefitsolver.com/benefits/BenefitSolverView?page\_name=signon&co\_num=30601&co\_affid=medtronic) **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 (http://www.medtronic.com) . It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. At Medtronic, most positions are posted on our career site for 3-7 days. **Welcome to our new Careers Site!** **If you applied before July 22nd, please check your email for a notification from us providing you with instructions and a link to set up your new account and retain access to your current activity. If you do not see an email from us, please feel free to proceed with creating a new account.** 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. **We change lives** . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives. **We build extraordinary solutions as one team** . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough. **This life-changing career is yours to engineer** . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will… + **Build** a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world + **Grow** a career reflective of your passion and abilities + **Connect** to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning These commitments set our team apart from the rest: **Experiences that put people first** . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need. **Life-transforming technologies** . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms. **Better outcomes for our world** . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls. **Insight-driven care** . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support. This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here (https://www.e-verify.gov/employees) . For updates on job applications, please go to the candidate login page and sign in to check your application status. If you need assistance completing your application please email AskHR@medtronic.com To request removal of your personal information from our systems please email RS.HRCompliance@medtronic.com
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