Quality Eng II (Finance)

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
3rd shift and weekends

The Quality Eng II 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. 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.

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

• 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.
• 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.
• Reviews and analyzes quality trends with the manufacturing team.
• Considering the quality trends provides directions in terms of setting work priorities for process enhancement.
• Provides leadership to effective in-depth investigations and to cross-functional, multilevel technical teams to assure causes of non-conformance are identified and understood, and that sound corrective/ preventive actions are implemented.
• Evaluates the implemented corrective and preventive actions against trends and quality issues to assess effectiveness of it.
• Leads investigation of customer complaints in alignment with the manufacturing engineers, and process supervisors, facilitates the implementation process.
• Analyzes data based on trends, recommends actions for process, equipment and system improvement.
• Writes procedures, protocols and any other documentation needed for the enhancement of systems.
• Provides training and education to the manufacturing team on tools for process, monitoring enhancement, procedures and equipment, analytical trouble-shooting, FMEA, statistical concept application, and QSR/ISO requirements. Drives implementation of these tools.
• Analyzes problems regarding inspection procedures, reaches decisions and recommends possible solutions and improvements to implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Initiates, reports, and recommends special studies and qualification of new products or processes to evaluate quality and reliability.
• Analyzes and submits recommendations for facilities, environmental areas, such as particulates, humidity, calibrations, and other monitoring.
• Drives SPC or preventive action methods.
• Reviews and approves qualification / validation reports, ECO's/CA's, process changes, quality records or manufacturing documentation.
• Implements quality system improvements.
• Conducts and assists in regulatory inspections, such as (TÜV, FDA, others), as well as internal audits.
• Integrates Quality Systems Regulations into New Product & Technology Development.
• Performs other position duties as assigned

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires practical knowledge and demonstrated competence within job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. • 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 0 years of experience.

Engineering degree required

Nice to have:

• Computer System expertise

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.

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

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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

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.