Manager Engineering & Operational Excellence

Job title:

Manager Engineering & Operational Excellence

Company:

Medtronic

Job description

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 We are transforming towards a High-Performance Culture, promoting ownership and bold acting and driving Excellence in Operations. In line with this transformation, we are combining our value chain “enabling” functions – Manufacturing Engineering, Maintenance & Facility Services and Operational Excellence – into a new, multidisciplinary support department, while attracting additional talents.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 (expanding from 4 to 6 FTE)
• Develop existing and new talents towards high performers
• Troubleshoot and improve processes, focused on unburdening our manufacturing-, inspection- and warehouse teams
• Embed continuous improvement and simplification in our value chain
• Further deploy our Medtronic Performance System (MPS), thereby optimizing reliability, productivity, throughput times, compliance and safety
• Foster effective Tier management and support problem-solving
• Boost equipment reliability and capacity utilization
• Drive process automation and digitization and promote data analysis and visualization
• Manage continuous improvement projects and facilitate workshops
• Take Process Validation to the next level, in line with applicable standards in the medical device arena
• Optimize alignment with other enabling functions, like Planning, Safety, Quality, Sourcing and Product Engineering

Required Knowledge and ExperienceEnjoying a track record with performance improvement successes, you are a mid-career senior engineer, eager to transfer your broad expertise to others. You boost performance and make it visible. You are committed to build coherent teams. You play to win and make people excel. You recognize talent and are culturally savvy. You balance patience with drive and manage by example. You orchestrate mindset-transformations towards unburdening the internal customer. You drive continuous improvement and simplification. You take businesses up the digitization-ladder. You embrace Gemba walks and you are visible. You report concisely. You are determined, self-managing and well-organized. And you feel at home in the world of medical device manufacturing.Must Haves

• 10+ years of multi-company working experience in several engineering roles in a manufacturing environment
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in industrial engineering, Mechanical Engineering or similar
• Well-developed coaching skills and comfortable with applying modern management techniques in small 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 management expertise and outstanding documenting-, reporting- and presenting skills

Nice to Haves

• Fluency in Dutch and English (oral and writing)
• Knowledge of process automation and business digitization
• Insights in equipment investment planning
• Advanced software expertise (office, business intelligence reporting, data )
• Working expertise in and / or strong affinity with highly regulated industries, like medical devices or pharma
• Willingness to incidentally (

5%) travel internationally to other Medtronic locations * Preferably, a Lean Six Sigma black belt certification and perhaps even real-life experience in Performance Management System rollouts and some international working experiencePhysical Job RequirementsThe 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 & CompensationMedtronic 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 MedtronicWe 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

Expected salary

Location

Kerkrade, Limburg

Job date

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:08:14 GMT

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