Senior Systems Engineering Manager - Coronary & Renal Denervation
Medtronic
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
Exciting Opportunity for an experienced Senior Systems Engineering Manager within our CRDN Therapy.Careers That Change Lives
Medtronic’s Coronary and Renal Denervation (CRDN) business is looking for a motivated Engineering Manager to be part of a high-performing team that is revolutionizing the design and development of medical devices. In this role, you will leverage both your technical breadth and business acumen to accelerate the design and development of next generation medical devices. The work you do will impact patients globally and help support Medtronic’s mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life for millions.
This functional management position requires strong technical and leadership skills to support the design and development of innovative, new products within the Cardiac and Vascular Group. The candidate will be responsible for leading a functional team of Systems Engineers to achieve the technical objectives of the CRDN business. The functional leadership responsibilities will include oversight of a portion of the Systems Engineering team in their day-to-day activities, talent development and driving functional excellence, all towards improving the effectiveness of the Systems Engineering organization.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for the patients we serve and an unrelenting desire to improve our business. The candidate will be motivated and must have exceptional soft skills that will be used to work with a team.
We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.
This position will be based in Mounds View, MN.
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A Day in the Life
Systems Engineering activities typically involve trade-offs between risks, benefits, and performance. Systems Engineering activities are performed within the constraints of a complex regulatory environment, in partnership with development (software, firmware, hardware, mechanical engineering), research, clinical, regulatory, product planning, and marketing groups.
A key focus of this role will be to support development, characterization and integration testing for a next generation Renal Denervation RF ablation generator.
Functional Excellence:
Assist in leading cross-functional teams to make appropriate, timely decisions and recommendations that result in the successful completion of major organizational objectives.
Drive the Systems strategy to advance Systems Engineering through process, design practices, and organizational changes.
Specific focus on test execution strategy, both manual and automated testing.
Manage engineering labs, including budget, equipment needs, project resourcing and assignments.
Talent Development:
Manage team to achieve System Engineering goals.
Develop System Engineers to be effective leaders, including how to best approach technical issues, soft skills, etc.
Provide targeted opportunities to develop and stretch team member’s knowledge and capabilities.
Recruit individuals whose skills will enable Systems Engineering to achieve organizational objectives.
Program Execution:
Communicate across Business Units and with functional partners to evaluate, develop, and plan technical solutions.
Ensure programs have robust technical solutions and risk burndown plans.
Lead multiple system engineering activities in the product development life cycle including identification, planning, monitoring and executing tasks for entire project.
Supports key efforts if major technical issues are identified.
Strategic Planning:
Identify long-term opportunities that will continue to advance the systems engineering function over a 3-5 year time horizon.
Understand the R&D future portfolio and align system engineering talent strategies to achieve those goals.
Identify and drive long-term strategic change initiatives (e.g. test automation, model-based system design, etc.)
Involved in assessment of long-term opportunities with other companies or academic efforts.
Travel Requirements:
Travel approximately once per quarter.
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other technical discipline.
7+ years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience.
Specialized Knowledge or Skills:
Multiple years’ experience as a System Engineer and/or Core Team member in key programs.
A person that is versatile, technically savvy, curious, a broad systems thinker, and willing to work in a space with a lot of ambiguity.
Good at communicating complex technical opportunities and challenges to upper management in a concise but thorough fashion.
A person that can protect time for strategic initiatives, while supporting key tactical needs.
Prior experience managing people or large teams.
In depth understanding of the CRHF domain, especially in the software domain, and development processes or equivalent design controls.
Nice to Have
Bachelors, Masters, PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree program.
With Bachelors: 15+ years with relevant product development and technical leadership.
With Masters: 10+ years with relevant product development and technical leadership.
Experience with implementing and leading DevOps change initiatives.
Experience with system-level test automation.
Demonstrated domain knowledge and understands applications to assigned projects.
Demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement by studying and applying technical advances in area of expertise.
Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
Familiarity with Design for Six Sigma or related product development processes.
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. (ADA-United States of America)
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.
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).
Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.
Further details are available at the link below:
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 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.
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