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A Day in the Life
Job Summary: The Associate Calibration Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy and reliability of measurement and test equipment used in manufacturing, research, and development processes. This role involves performing calibrations, maintaining calibration records, troubleshooting equipment issues, developing calibration methods, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and quality standards.Key Responsibilities:
•Perform calibration and verification of measurement and test equipment in accordance with established procedures and industry standards.
•Maintain and update calibration records and documentation to ensure traceability and compliance with regulatory and quality requirements.
•Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing teams to troubleshoot and resolve equipment performance issues.
•Develop and improve calibration processes and procedures to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
•Lead internalization project across sites and develop calibration methods
•Monitor and manage the calibration schedule to minimize downtime and ensure timely completion of calibrations.
•Support internal and external audits by providing calibration data and documentation.
•Participate in training sessions to stay updated on industry best practices and calibration techniques.
•Train calibration technicians on calibration methods and activities
Qualifications:
•Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
•Basic knowledge of calibration principles, measurement uncertainty, and quality management systems (e.g., ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 17025).
•Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
•Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
•Familiarity with calibration software and tools is a plus.
Preferred Skills/Experience:
•Experience in a regulated environment (e.g., medical devices, pharmaceuticals, aerospace) is an advantage.
•Certification in calibration or metrology (e.g., ASQ Certified Calibration Technician) is an advantage.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality standards and protocol for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
- Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
- Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
- Designs or specifies inspection and testing mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
- Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
- May specialize in the areas of design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.
TECHNICAL SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: An individual contributor with responsibility in our technical functions to advance existing technology or introduce new technology and therapies. Formulates, delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering R&D, systems or initiatives related to new technologies or therapies – from design to implementation - while adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills.
DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS
Autonomy: Entry-level individual contributor on a project or work team.
Works with close supervision.
Organizational Impact: Delivers work of limited scope, typically smaller, less complex projects or related activities.
Innovation and Complexity: Identifies, defines and addresses problems that are not immediately evident but typically not difficult or complex.
Makes minor changes in systems and processes to solve problems.
Communication and Influence: Communicates primarily with internal contacts within immediate group.
Contacts others to gather, confirm and convey information.
Leadership and Talent Management: N / A – job at this level is focused on self-development.
Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires broad theoretical job knowledge typically obtained through advanced education.
Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A), 0 years of experience required.
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.
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.
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.
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