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 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.
Are you a passionate, dedicated, and motivated continuous improvement leader looking for a new challenge? Then the Continuous Improvement Engineer position might be for you.
This is a Temporary, 12-month opportunity.
In this role, you will be focused on accelerating the rate of performance in our Pointe Claire Facility, through the deployment of the Medtronic Performance System (MPS). This will be accomplished through coaching and training teams, leaders, and employees on the tools and elements that make up MPS. You will deploy and sustain continuous improvement programs around Zero Loss, Strategy Excellence, Innovation Excellence, Value Stream Excellence, Maintenance Excellence, and Improvement Excellence with A3/DMAIC thinking and Lean Sigma toolsets, to support our growth.
Responsibilities include:
- Develop, implement, and sustain process improvement initiatives utilizing Six Sigma methodologies.
- Define, design, and implement continuous improvement programs to ensure programs are integrated vertically and horizontally across the organization.
- Define improvement projects aligned with business strategies.
- Analyze improvement programs and potential results.
- Facilitate and coach improvement teams.
- Establish and maintain performance metrics to measure program success.
- Install process excellence supports for program governance, project reviews, communications, training, certifications, and rewards.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree required
Preferred Qualifications:
- Lean Sigma Yellow, Green or Black Belt trained
- Certified PMP (PMI)
- Master Black Belt trained
- Experience both leading and coaching lean transformations (demonstrating strong aptitude for value stream analysis and lean transformations)
- Experience leading continuous improvement programs (e.g. Maintenance Excellence, Belt Certification Program etc.) in manufacturing environments.
- Ability to craft and deploy strategy for process improvement that aligns with Medtronic strategic objectives
- Ability to respectfully deliver candid feedback to all levels of the organization
- Ability to lead, energize and influence change efforts at all levels of the organization.
- Cross functional business experience with solid understanding of how business processes interconnect
- Operational management experience
- Strong ability to see process improvement opportunities in the Gemba
- Track record of delivering results through continuous improvement
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.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here
