Careers that Change Lives
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.
Engineers are indispensable to achieving our Mission. That's why we empower you to bring the best of your experience to bear on our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Apply your existing skills and develop new ones, with the training, mentorship, and the guidance you need to continue to develop your expertise. Today, we're partnering across the industry to confront systemic healthcare challenges - this requires bold leadership. If you want a challenging, energizing, rewarding career that changes lives, join us. Help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide.
In this exciting role as a Senior Process Engineer, you will lead the innovation, development and/or optimization of new manufacturing concepts, processes, and procedures for transfer to manufacturing operations.
This position will work onsite at our manufacturing site in Tempe, Arizona.
A Day in the Life:
The Senior Process Engineer is responsible for developing and transferring highly stable, cost-effective, and scalable microelectronic packaging and PCBA (Printed Circuit Board Assembly) processes into manufacturing. You will develop and support equipment and processes such as underfill dispense, pick and place, solder paste dispense, reflow, epoxy cure, clean, etc. This entails output monitoring, performing necessary experiments to establish robust processes and gaining a thorough understanding of capabilities and interactions with upstream and downstream processes including metrology needs. You will provide inputs to design teams and advance the state of the art in microelectronic assembly.
Responsibilities include:

• Scouting and feasibility work, material selection, process and equipment selection, tooling / fixture and equipment installation and assessment of inputs, outputs, and alignment to requirements.
• Develop manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control and may develop those techniques including the measurement systems.
• Perform equipment qualifications (IQ), process validations (Process characterization, OQ and PQ), and gage R&R studies (TMV)
• Apply statistical methods and science-based decisions to design experiments and implement improvements.
• Perform necessary experiments to establish robust processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve equipment/process production issues.
• Monitor, root cause and resolve process yield issues
• Review product development requirements for compatibility with processing methods to determine costs and schedules.
• Interact with product design and development personnel to ensure that processes and designs are compatible.
• Generate and maintain documentation per quality system regulations.
• Ensure processes and procedures follow regulations.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 4 years relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in developing a process from concept to transfer in manufacturing
• Experience working in a high-volume facility
• Experience with DRM / DFSS, Lean Sigma, or Green/Black Belt Lean Sigma certification
• Knowledge of DOE, statistical analysis methods and data analysis tools (Minitab, JMP, etc.)
• Experience and understanding of SPC principles including process capability analysis and control charts
• Experience or aptitude to program, run and troubleshoot automated equipment, machine vision and automated metrology tools
• Willingness and desire to work hands-on with equipment/process running the tool

About Medtronic
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.
We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. Help us shape the future.
Physical Job Requirements
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.
Compensation and Benefits
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. Learn more about our benefits here.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive plan. Learn more about Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) on page 6 here.
The provided base salary range is used nationally (except in certain CA locations). The rate offered is compliant with federal/local regulations and may vary by experience, certification/education, market conditions, location, etc.