New Product Development Manufacturing Engineer at Medtronic in North Haven, Connecticut

Job Description:

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 22 Nov 2024

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 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. Learn more about our benefits .

Make an impact by joining the New Product Development Industrial Engineering team at the North Haven, CT Manufacturing Technology & Innovation Center. You will be part of a shared services team supporting Medtronic's portfolio of life saving surgical devices. This position blends your technical engineering skills with your analytical acumen to establish new product capacity models, design new equipment layouts, plan for assembly labor and walk paths, and estimate new product costs, all to support excellence in new product commercialization. Take your career to the next level while supporting our mission to "alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life."

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and communicate solutions to a variety of routine problems using computer and logic-based methods.


• Create flexible capacity models and sensitivity analysis to evaluate the end-to-end value stream of a product line and/or product family in support of launch strategy and ramp plan development.


• Financial Analysis - develop standard cost and start up expense for learning curve estimates; complete Make vs. Buy analysis in support of manufacturing strategy development and site selection.


• Develop thorough understanding of Industrial Engineering concepts with a significant focus on analysis (primarily financial & capacity related).


• Frequent verbal and written communications; present to peers, development team, and management.


• Act as key liaison between Plant Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Operations, New Product Development, and Commercial teams.


• Identify business process improvement projects related to New Product Introduction & Commercialization.


• Collaborate with Tooling and Manufacturing Engineers to develop flexible manufacturing cell designs aligned with Lean Manufacturing concepts and the Medtronic Cell Operating System (COS).


• Complete time studies and line balances; generate line layouts; lead ergonomic/safety assessments; study manufacturing processes through simulation modeling.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• B.S. in Engineering, or other technical field.


• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 0 years of experience.

Nice to Have

• Skilled with Microsoft suite, especially Excel and PowerPoint.


• Industrial Engineering background, including capacity planning/modeling, time & motion studies, balance tables, flexible work-cell development, financial analysis, and standard cost development.


• Experience with VBA, SQL, and/or Power BI data visualization software is a plus.


• Basic understanding of financial analysis.


• General understanding of Six Sigma tools and Lean Manufacturing concepts.

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):$79,200.00 - $118,800.00

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.