Sr Automation Engineer (Onsite)

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

A career at Medtronic is like no other. We are committed, we are purposeful and we are driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions of people worldwide

Do meaningful work, make a difference, and improve lives - starting with your own.

In this exciting role as a Sr Automation Engineer you will report into the Equipment & Automation team at the Plymouth

• Nathan Lane location in the Peripheral Vascular Health (PVH) Operating Unit (OU). The PVH OU brings our various peripheral vascular businesses together into one cross-functional, collaborative operating unit to employ the full breadth of our talent, technologies, products, services, and solutions to address the needs of customers and patients across the globe. This role will provide site level support for manufacturing equipment in an automation and controls capacity. Project work will include new technology integration, equipment improvements & redesigns. We are looking for a technically competent, ambitious individual with a strong electrical background.

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

• Provides technical and sustaining engineering support in a manufacturing area.

• Recommends and implements equipment and process modifications to meet quality standards and improve production efficiencies, manufacturing techniques as well as production yields for existing products.

• Integrates equipment and material capabilities to meet process module target specifications and technology target specifications.

• Support equipment mechanization & automation initiatives from business case to implementation.

• Provide advanced troubleshooting support for electronics, controls, robotics, & vision systems

• Collaborate with AME team to incorporate process changes into existing equipment.

• Tune closed loop control equipment for optimal performance.

• Document equipment requirements & review vendor designs.

• Support full equipment life cycle, development through sunsetting.

• Drive standard work for equipment health assessment.

• Equipment improvements in support of increasing OEE metric.

• Support equipment modifications for SPC initiatives.

• Improve equipment up time through troubleshooting, spare part review, & vendor partnerships.

• Provide support for the technician department in equipment troubleshooting to reduce / eliminate downtime.

• Work with a team to help design, develop and customize electromechanical systems for manufacturing.

• Assist with the development and design of controls systems.

• Provide Controls engineering support for the site.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree required

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience

Nice to Have

• Experience with PLC/HMI hardware/software design, programming, and troubleshooting

• AB, Horner, Beckhoff & more

• Experience with Vision System

• Robotics integration experience - mobile industrial robots & material handling

• Experience selecting and working with equipment vendors

• Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) implementation experience

• Experience Troubleshooting HMI, PLC, VFDs, temperature controllers, etc.

• Experience writing & executing equipment development documentation, such as Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) and User Requirement Specifications (URS) for new equipment

• New equipment/technology implementation from idea to production experience

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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$97,600.00 - $146,400.00

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).

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 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.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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