Careers That Change Lives

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

Our journey to take healthcare Further, Together, begins with the collective efforts of our employees around the world. It's those efforts that are reflected in Tenet 5 of our Mission, and rewarded through a complete package of benefits, pay, and resources designed to support you at every career and life stage.

We are currently hiring a Sr Technical Supervisor at our Northridge, California Diabetes Operating Unit.

The Diabetes Operating Unit focuses on improving the lives of those within the global diabetes community. As a business, we strive to empower people with diabetes to live life on their terms by delivering innovation that truly matters and providing support in the ways they need it. We're committed to meeting people with diabetes where they are in their journey, always with an aim to make their lives easier. Our portfolio of innovative solutions are designed to provide customers greater freedom and better health, helping them achieve better glucose control, while spending less time managing their disease.

Visit www.medtronicdiabetes.com to see an overview of the products in our Diabetes product portfolio.

A Day in the Life

In this exciting role as a Sr. Technical Supervisor, you will have responsibility for supervising a team whose responsibilities include performing installation, maintenance, and repairs of line manufacturing and plant equipment. You will respond to production team issues, investigate the issue, and develop a solution to ensure production is maintained. Throughout the course of this role, you will supervise technical work with a variety of optical, vacuum, electrical, electronic, and mechanical systems, with top performers proposing and implementing preventive measures to improve the team's service for the production team. Additionally, this role will include creating new documentation for existing processes, ensuring both the technical content and user readability to promote consistent high standards of work. The team's work includes regular performance of preventive maintenance, production sustaining activities, as well as corrective maintenance in accordance with documented procedures. Additional tasks will include implementing continuous improvement initiatives to drive key performance indicators for the team. In all actions, top performers will work to develop tools and processes to improve overall team performance.

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Ensure your team documents work as needed for equipment and production support tasks.
• Ensure your team follows procedures, methods, and sequence of operations in performing daily tasks.
• Ensure your team accurately assess root cause problems and develop solutions to correct issues as they arise.
• Ensure your team provides all equipment, maintenance, calibration, and related documentation are in compliance with company specifications and quality standards.
• Ensure your team actively contributes to ongoing continuous improvement efforts and projects.
• Ensure your team handles production materials and chemicals per operating procedures.
• Ensure your team maintains technician areas in accordance with good laboratory practices.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree required
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant Technical / Engineering Supervisory experience in a Manufacturing environment with a Bachelor's Degree, or 1 year of relevant Technical / Engineering Supervisory experience with a Master's Degree

Nice to Have

• 7+ years work experience supporting manufacturing equipment
• Mechanical or Electrical Engineering Degree
• 5+ years experience in Medical Device or Pharmaceutical Manufacturing experience.
• Familiarity with technical writing and demonstrated ability to create work instructions, procedures, and additional supporting documentation that adheres to template guidelines.
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite.
• Demonstrated ability to improve existing processes with the development of tools and procedures.
• Strong communication skills including ability to work with a diverse team of different backgrounds and learning styles.

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

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. (ADA-United States of America)

Additional Information

• Posting Date: Dec 15, 2021
• Travel: Yes, < 25 % of the Time