Sensor Engineering Manager

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

Join us in Engineering the Extraordinary as an Engineering Manager in the Sensor and Infusion Engineering R&D division at Medtronic Diabetes.

As a lead in the team, you will help in supporting the evaluation of technology and assess the feasibility of innovative sensor designs. As the team leader, you will be instrumental in providing essential project management and leadership to enable product development success.

Your role will encompass collaboration with technical program managers to provide engineering leadership. You will participate in the ideation, design, development, clinical testing, and regulatory submissions of micro-fabricated electrochemical glucose and bio-sensors, which are crucial components of our next-generation diabetes management products. Your leadership will be key in validating designs and contributing towards the Medtronic mission.

In this role, you will be responsible for identifying and implementing top-tier processes and technologies, as well as fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Your leadership will focus on coaching, developing, and mentoring your team to enhance performance metrics, thereby supporting the organization’s short and long-term goals. You will also directly manage significant operational projects, ensuring that our program management and clinical practices are of the highest standard, thereby providing a competitive advantage for our business.

This is an in-person full-time position and may require travel less than 10% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the design and execution of all CGM R&D pre-clinical and human feasibility studies in collaboration with clinical partners ensuring they align with the organization’s financial and competitive goals.
• Maintain the study plan and schedule, engaging cross-functionally for successful completion, ensuring stakeholder engagement.
• Engage, maintain, and cultivate relationships with our clinical partners both internal and external to Medtronic.
• Develop mechanisms for monitoring study progress and intervening when necessary.
• Provide a communication link between the clinical team, regulatory function, and the rest of the Sensor R&D organization.
• Foster a deep understanding of clinical sensor signals and their integration into diabetes management systems.
• Develop a robust understanding of system interdependencies as they relate to sensor signals, and drive requirements accordingly.
• Maintain system and platform-level visibility to ensure seamless integration of continuous monitoring devices into standalone and closed-loop systems.
• Develop clear and attainable project objectives, build project requirements, and manage the triple constraints of time, cost, and technical scope.
• Develop and maintain a detailed project plan for workstreams and engage with the technical team to deliver on milestones.
• Work across engineering teams (chemistry design, sensor electrode design, sensor manufacturing, algorithms, system engineering, clinical feasibility, etc.) to manage technical effort and design integration.
• Manage technical risks and issues by working with the technical team to develop and maintain risk burndown plans, tracking metrics that relate to the sensor performance goals, investigating issues and implementing solutions in a timely manner.
• Promote team professional development to enhance engagement, growth, job satisfaction, and organizational health.
• Mentor junior staff to develop best practices to ensure process adherence and effective project management.
• Respond to business environment demands through resource planning, resource allocation, skill set competencies, and long-term capacity planning.
• Manage and track the clinical budget.
• Develop communication mechanisms including storyboards and leverage PowerPoint slides to inform Senior level leadership and program stakeholders of program strategy, status, risks, next steps, etc.
• Provide feedback to functional department heads during the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), strategic planning process, and the performance management process.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile.

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or other science related field and 5+ years R&D, product development, or program/project engineering experience.
• OR Advanced Degree in Engineering or other science related field and 3+ years R&D, product development, or program/project engineering experience.

Nice to Have

• BS or Advanced degree in electrochemistry, biochemistry, or material science and engineering.
• Experience in medical device clinical trials in-human.
• Experience connecting clinical study design to labeling impacts for products.
• Understanding of clinical safety requirements and regulatory requirements for in-human studies.
• Experience with regulatory submissions and FDA regulations (e.g., 510k, PMA).
• Medical device product development experience, including design and manufacturing of medical devices.
• Strong track record of supporting and/or leading projects.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills in a team environment, coupled with the ability to interpret technical reports and statistical analysis.
• Strong analytical, planning, organization, and time management skills to effectively develop and execute comprehensive programs and budgets.
• Program Management Qualification: PMP Certification.
• Relevant experience in product development including product concept generation, conducting trade-off analyses, requirements flowdown, subsystem integration, technical risk management, requirements verification, and clinical validation.
• Experience working collaboratively at all levels in a matrix environment to build and maintain the positive relationships required to accomplish organizational goals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to present information to cross-functional audiences including management, and write technical documents related to engineering work.
• Business acumen: ability to think and act from an overall “best for the business” perspective. Results-oriented: strong sense of urgency.

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.

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): $136,000.00 - $204,000.00. 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).

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.

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