Senior Product Development Program Manager - CTOR

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

Product Development Program Manager, Core Team Operations Representative (CTOR) is the primary Operations interface to the New Product Development Core team. This is a highly visible and impactful role in the operations network and to the Advanced Surgical Technologies business unit of Medtronic’s Surgical Operating Unit. The CTOR will lead cross-functional extended teams and is responsible for value stream selection, planning, execution, and implementation of new products into manufacture.

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

• Managing Operations Project Metrics such as Predicted Product Costs and Line Yields
• Generating Design Transfer Deliverables (Plans and Reports). Working with Stakeholders to set
• Manufacturing Strategy
• Driving Process Development Designs manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining and material handling. Designs arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout. Designs sequence of manufacturing operations and specifies procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance
• Ensures processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations
• Lead the Extended Operations Team to ensure on-time and on-budget performance through the new product development cycle
• Follow compliance processes for New Product Development
• Execute pre-established Operations Strategies
  
  

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelors degree required with minimum of 7 years of engineering experience in manufacturing and/or product development, or Advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
• Advanced degree in an Engineering discipline or Masters in Business Administration
• Medical device product development and/or manufacturing experience and a strong understanding of FDA, ICH and IEC standards
• Experience across the entire product lifecycle
• DRM, DFSS or Six Sigma Green Belt Certified
• Proven Operations experience with depth of knowledge in at least one Operations function
• Experience working in a highly regulated industry (e.g. medical device, pharmaceutical, avionics, automotive)
• Experience with problem solving methodologies
• Experience with manufacturing process validation
• Project engineering or program management experience in a new product development and/or manufacturing environment
  
  

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.

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.

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