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 LifeMedtronic Operations in Kerkrade is the manufacturing location for Medtronic in The Netherlands, specialized in the manufacturing assembly of medical devices, including customized perfusion packs used during surgical procedures, thereby serving more than 250,000 patients worldwide each year. We are transforming to a High-Performance Culture, promoting ownership and bold acting and driving Excellence in Operations. As part of this transformation, we are combining our value chain "enabling" functions - Manufacturing Engineering, Maintenance & Facility Services and Operational Excellence - into a new multidisciplinary support function and attracting additional talent.
The Manager Engineering, Operational Excellence & EHS is a mid-career senior engineering role with the opportunity to play a pivotal role in the transformation of our organisation. Your demonstrated leadership talents will support you in building, leading and developing a coherent team. You will be at the forefront of continuous improvement initiatives and you drive deployment of our Medtronic Performance System (MPS) throughout our on-site processes thereby optimizing reliability, productivity, throughput times, compliance and safety. You will report to the Site Leader and be part of the core leadership team. This is a fully on-site role based at our manufacturing operations site in Kerkrade, The Netherlands and requires a willingness to travel internationally (< 5%) to other Medtronic sites.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned
- Build a successful support team, consisting of Manufacturing Engineering, Maintenance & Facility Services and Operational Excellence (9 FTE)
- Develop existing and new talents towards high performers
- Manage continuous improvement projects and facilitate workshops
- Foster effective Tier management, support problem-solving and improve the effectiveness of Gemba walks
- Deploy Maintenance Excellence and Safety Excellence
- Boost equipment reliability and capacity utilization
- Drive process automation and digitization and promote data analysis and visualization
- Take Process Validation to the next level, in line with applicable standards in the medical device arena
Required Knowledge and Experience
- 10 +years of multi-company working experience in several engineering and leadership roles in a manufacturing environment, ideally in industries like medical devices, pharma, food, automotive
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or similar
- Well-developed coaching skills and comfortable with applying modern leadership techniques in small, diverse teams
- Broad understanding and vision about industrial engineering, production technology, preventive maintenance, trouble shooting, integrated quality and factory-safety
- Excellence in continuous improvement with proven track record of achieving outstanding performance in discrete manufacturing environments
- Demonstrated successes in managing change and transformation in a multidisciplinary organization, strong project leadership expertise and outstanding documenting-, reporting- and presenting skills
- Fluency in English (oral and writing), while Dutch language proficiency is a nice to have
- Preferably, a Lean Six Sigma black belt certification
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.
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).
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
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What We Do
Medtronic is a global healthcare solutions company operating in approximately 160 countries. We are committed to improving lives through our medical technologies, services, and solutions.
Since our beginning, 60 years ago, our Mission has remained the same: to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for people around the world. The Mission is our ethical framework and inspirational goal guiding our day-to-day work. It reminds us that our efforts are transforming millions of lives each year.
To meet the needs of patients and healthcare professionals around the globe, we operate from more than 370 locations in approximately 160 countries.
