Quality Engineer 1

Overview
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.
Medtronic values what makes you unique.
Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress and deliver meaningful innovations.
Our Purpose: In Medtronic plc Quality Department, we focus on supporting the product value stream to ensure that customer and patient needs are met every day.
Our key focus is delivering and maintaining a high level of Quality to ensure that business and performance goals are achieved.
The Quality Engineer role is critical in supporting key department metrics, contributing to the global strategy and to delivering on our mission to contribute to human welfare by supporting the manufacture of products that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.
Come for a job, stay for a career.
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.
Responsibilities
Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality standards and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished products.
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.
Work on non-conformance investigations.
Ensure corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
Contribute to continuous improvement activities to support the business.
May collaborate in design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.
Ensure compliance with all applicable department and site-wide procedures and regulations.
Support internal and external audit preparation and activity, including application and maintenance of quality standards for all activities involved.
Key Skills & Experience
Minimum of a bachelor's degree (Level 7 NFQ) in Engineering/Science or related discipline with a minimum of 1 year of relevant direct Science/Engineering experience within a medical device environment.
Strong interpersonal, communication and organizational skills.
Practical working knowledge of statistical data analysis, problem solving and quality improvement tools and techniques preferable.
Technical writing skills.
Ability to multi-task and to take initiative is essential.
Effective time management skills.
Builds and maintains positive relationships with others; shows respect and consideration for others.
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.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
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