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In this exciting role as a Reliability Engineer II, you will have responsibility for many aspects of product quality and reliability for products that are released as part of Medtronic Neuromodulation organization. In this role, you will investigate issues and analyze the risks for products in the field. This includes trends in complaint data, labeling, software, and hardware related issues. You will also provide risk and reliability engineering support for released product design and process changes. The Reliability Engineer II ensures that all analysis meets acceptable reliability standards, and that documentation is compliant with requirements.

Join a diverse team of innovators who bring their worldview, their unique backgrounds, and their individual life experiences to work every day. It’s no accident – we work hard to cultivate a workforce that reflects our patients and partners. We believe it’s the only way to drive healthcare forward and remain a global leader in medical technology and solutions.

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Neuromodulation OU: Medtronic Neuromodulation delivers innovative therapies and solutions for neurological diseases, pain, and spasticity.

Location : Fridley, MN

A Day in the Life

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

• Lead investigations into fielded product issues including performing the risk analysis for the issue with a comparison to the risk management files and impacts to existing risk mitigations.

• Determine and initiate change request if risk management files need to be reviewed and updated.

• Collaborate with Medical Safety to review and analyze field data, discuss the harm severity sources, and estimate the probability or harm occurrence.

• Participate in the identification, assessment, and disposition of software anomalies.

• Evaluate reliability impact of proposed design and manufacturing changes on existing market released product. This includes physical hardware changes as well as, embedded firmware, and health software applications.

• Collaborate with different departments across the organization to understand and review data to assess the patient/user risk associated with a product nonconformance, complaint, design, or manufacturing change.

• Represent the organization as a technical contact for risk and reliability for processes such as: Non conformances, Anomaly Dispositions, Deviations, Complaint Formal Investigations, Change Control and CAPA among others.

Must Have (Minimum Requirements)

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume .

• Bachelor’s degree required with a minimum of 4 years of experience in Medical Device or related industry

• OR advance degree with a minimum of 2years of experience in Medical Device or related industry experience

Nice to Have ( Preferred Qualifications )

• Experience in Medical devices – specifically in vascular/Neurovascular devices is highly preferred

• Experience with Software Application or Embedded Software development and testing.

• Experience in medical devices or other highly regulated industry such as defense or automotive.

• Experience in quality, reliability, design assurance, safety, or systems engineering.

• Experience with and knowledge of medical device standards including ISO 13485, ISO 14971 (risk mgmt.).

• Formal training in quality tools (Six Sigma, Statistical Techniques, Sampling Principles, Risk Assessment, Root Cause Analysis, FMEA, FTA, DOE, etc.)

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively and collaboratively in a team environment and build strong working relationships

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment; ability to work well under pressure and maintain positive, enthusiastic attitude

• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive discussion and decision-making.This includes facilitation, consensus building and conflict resolution.

• Strong written and oral communication skills including presentation skills

• High degree of initiative and self-motivation

• Strong attention to detail and accuracy

• Excellent organization skills: ability to successfully balance and prioritize multiple ongoing projects/tasks

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to solve problems through analytical reasoning.

• ASQ Certification in Quality or Reliability is a plus.

• Experience in the design, maintenance, or continuation engineering of software or software systems, including mobile applications is a plus.

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services 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.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

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. (ADA-United States of America).

Min Salary

80800

Max Salary

121200

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