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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
At Medtronic, we push the limits of technology to make tomorrow better than yesterday creating an exciting and rewarding workplace. We value what makes you unique and invite you to join a company that solves problems, drives progress, and delivers meaningful innovations.As a member of the site automation team specializing as Design Technician, you’ll collaborate with operators and engineers to identify manufacturing challenges and develop custom solutions. A key focus will be partnering with engineers to bring their ideas to life, transforming concepts into practical fixtures and manufacturing aids that improve efficiency and safety. Using CAD/SolidWorks, you’ll create detailed designs and oversee projects from concept through fabrication, working closely with vendors to source materials and ensure timely, high-quality results. You’ll review prototypes, gather feedback, and refine your designs as needed, contributing to a safer and more efficient manufacturing environment.
This on-site position is based in Plymouth, MN, within the Global Ops Supply Chain (GOSC) at a manufacturing site supporting the Peripheral Vascular Health business unit.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Designs components or portions of systems and modifies existing designs to develop or improve products and facilitate manufacturing and field service operations.
- Utilizes computer-aided design equipment and/or graphic tools, such as CAD, CAM, CATIA, ProEngineer, Solidworx or Siemens NX Software.
- Gathers information, makes studies, computes calculations, and prepares original rough layouts, sketches to present design proposal.
- Coordinates design criteria with engineering, manufacturing, tooling, material, and planning group such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials, and contractual specifications.
- Design and develop fixtures, manufacturing aids, and custom equipment to support production and automation.
- Collaborate with vendors to source materials and coordinate fabrication.
- Partner with operators and engineers to identify and implement process improvements.
- Ensure all designs meet safety, quality, and operational standards.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certificate, or Associate’s degree, in a relevant technical field.
- Proficiency in CAD/SolidWorks.
- Experience designing custom equipment, fixtures, or manufacturing aids.
- Familiarity with sourcing, tooling fabrication, and working with external vendors.
- Understanding of cutting tool geometry and applications.
- Ability to read and interpret advanced drawings with GD&T.
- Skill in conceptualizing and sketching tools, fixtures, and gauges.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Requires minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
- Requires high school diploma, or equivalent.
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.
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).
Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.
Further details are available at the link below:
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 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.
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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