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A Day in the LifeMedtronic
At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.
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 Senior Quality Engineer role is critical in supporting key department metrics by 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.
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A Day in The Life Of:
- Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality standards and protocol for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
- Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
- Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
- Designs or specifies inspection and testing mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
- Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
- Participate in preparing/critically reviewing/approving NCMRs/CAPAs/ Investigations/CDPs and validation activities, providing expert QA technical direction and solutions as appropriate.
- Drive and contribute to continuous improvement activities to support operations and the site including Ops Quality Walks / FTQ Events
- May specialize in the areas of design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.
- 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
- We are looking for a qualified person with an NFQ Level 8 Degree in Quality/Engineering/Science or related discipline with a minimum of 4 years’ relevant experience.
- You are a dynamic team player and leader and can work effectively and proactively on cross-functional teams with a high level of enthusiasm and motivation.
- Good communication, organizational, presentation and leadership skills are desirable.
- You are technically orientated with a strong risk-based approach to problem solving.
- You can work independently under limited supervision and be an effective decision maker.
- Ability to multi-task and to take initiative is essential.
Leadership and Talent Management:
- May provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area. May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others' work product.
Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package
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.
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.
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.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here
