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Medtronic's Cardiac Ablation Solutions division in searching for a dynamic Principal Reliability Engineer to join our growing team! The chosen candidate will be heavily involved in supporting the design work for a critical ablation program. The Cardiac Ablation Solutions team is engaged in developing next generation of medical technologies that save lives and improves the quality of living for millions of patients across the world. 

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Develops, coordinates and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs.
• Recommends design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability.
• Completes risk analysis studies of new design and processes.
• Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes.
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards.
• Analyzes preliminary plans and develops reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer and governmental agency reliability objectives.
• May develop mathematical models to identify units, batches or processes posing excessive failure risks.
• As necessary, proposes changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability.
• May determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing, and specifies minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data.

• Bachelors degree required
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience

·Strong written and verbal communication skills and work cooperatively as part of a team and cross functionally.

·Ability to manage project timelines to execute deliverables in a timely manner.

·Ability to solve problems and innovate solutions.

·Quality experience working in a regulated industry.

·Knowledge of Microsoft Office Applications (Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint) and Windows OS.

·Experience working within complaint management system.

·Familiarity with these regulations: FDA 21 CFR Part 820 cGMP, ISO 13485, ISO 10012, and ISO 17025 within the Medical Device Industry