We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 7 Aug 2025

 

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

As the Sr. Director of Automation Engineering – Global Operations Sustaining, you will lead a global team responsible for stabilizing, optimizing, and continuously improving production equipment and automation systems post product launch. Your work will ensure equipment reliability, compliance, and scalability across Medtronic manufacturing sites while supporting high-impact continuous improvement initiatives.

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 is designed to provide customers greater freedom and better health, helping them achieve better glucose control while spending less time managing their disease.

This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.

You will:

• Own and maintain production equipment to ensure maximum uptime, total productive maintenance (TPM), and an effective spare parts strategy.

• Lead strategic equipment upgrades and revalidations to maintain operational excellence and regulatory compliance.

• Drive continuous improvement (CI) projects to reduce cycle time, scrap, cost, and improve repair turnaround and yield.

• Implement Lean Manufacturing principles and structured problem-solving methodologies across all sites.

• Standardize and scale mature automation platforms across the global manufacturing network by leveraging existing infrastructure.

• Maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize labeling systems to ensure serialization and traceability compliance.

• Ensure compliance with all internal and external regulatory requirements during sustaining engineering changes and audits.

• Partner with cross-functional teams including Manufacturing, Quality, Maintenance, and Supply Chain to align on site-level OKRs, KPIs, and performance goals.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field.

• 15+ years of relevant professional experience in manufacturing, automation, or operations engineering with 10+ years in a managerial or leadership role. - Or advanced degree with a minimum of 13 years prior relevant experience, minimum of 10 years of managerial experience.

Nice to Have

• Demonstrated expertise in MES systems, PLC/HMI diagnostics, Lean Sigma tools, and TPM strategies.

• Proven success leading multi-site sustaining engineering initiatives within a regulated environment.

• Experience with serialization, traceability systems, and revalidation of modified systems.

• Master’s degree in engineering, Operations, or Business.

• Six Sigma Black Belt or Lean Manufacturing certification.

• Experience deploying standard automation platforms globally.

• Familiarity with Medtronic quality systems, global manufacturing practices, and compliance regulations.

Travel

• This role requires travel approx. 25% of time (domestic and international).

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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):$223,200.00 - $334,800.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.

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).

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.