Senior Automation and Controls Engineer

3 weeks ago


Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Medtronic Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Automation and Controls Engineer to join our team at Medtronic. As a key member of our manufacturing engineering team, you will be responsible for providing technical support and expertise to ensure the smooth operation of our automated production equipment.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide daily technical and process support for automated production equipment.
  • Implement equipment and process modifications to meet quality standards and improve production efficiencies.
  • Provide advanced troubleshooting for electronics, controls, robotics, and vision systems.
  • Understand and utilize process characterization and product design documents to maintain product quality and implement thoughtful and compliant manufacturing solutions.
  • Tune closed loop control equipment for optimal performance.
  • Lead projects increasing Overall Equipment Effectiveness.
  • Provide guidance and support for production operators and technicians in equipment troubleshooting to reduce downtime.
  • Develop and improve control systems and applications utilizing software languages and environments preferably in PLC Ladder Logic and/or structured text.
  • Perform verification and validation activities. Perform Measurement Systems Analysis (Gage R&R studies).
  • Deploy and qualify equipment. Ensure appropriate documentation is maintained.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree required.
  • Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.
  • Nice to have: experience with PLC/HMI hardware/software design, programming, and troubleshooting – particularly Allen-Bradley.
  • Experience with Vision Systems.
  • Robotics integration experience – mobile industrial robots & material handling.
  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) implementation experience.
  • Experience Troubleshooting HMI, PLC, VFDs, temperature controllers, etc.
  • Experience writing & executing equipment qualification documentation.
  • Experience with change control procedures in a medical device setting.

Benefits and Compensation:

Medtronic offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits package. A commitment to our employees' lives is 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 Range: $120,000.00 - $180,000.00

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

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).

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 90,000+ 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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