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

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
· Work independently with guidance and direction from senior members of the team and manager.

· Assure all quality requirements are in compliance with regulations and product specifications.

· Provide understanding of the audit process including types of audits, planning, preparation, execution and follow-up.

· Perform, coordinate, execute and summarize all areas of sterilization validation (EO, steam and chemical sterilization).

· Support the execution of sterilization validation cycles for new products.

· Work with little guidance to develop, implement and maintain sterilization processes, certifications and procedures for the sterilization operations.

· Support internal and external audits.

· Prepare written responses to regulatory questions.

· Review engineering change orders.

· Support in the resolution of non-conformances and implement corrective action.

· Work with facility maintenance and other departments for any Sterilizer and CEA improvement/corrective activities.

· Participate in special projects as assigned.

· Reviews change control notifications for impact to sterilization/microbial testing.

· Assuring that the Microbiology / Sterilization function is maintained per industry standards.

El Lago site:

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

· Work independently with guidance and direction from senior members of the team and manager.

· Assure all quality requirements are in compliance with regulations and product specifications.

· Provide understanding of the audit process including types of audits, planning, preparation, execution and follow-up.

· Perform, coordinate, execute and summarize all areas of sterilization validation (EO, steam and chemical sterilization).

· Support the execution of sterilization validation cycles for new products.

· Work with little guidance to develop, implement and maintain sterilization processes, certifications and procedures for the sterilization operations.

· Support internal and external audits.

· Prepare written responses to regulatory questions.

· Review engineering change orders.

· Support in the resolution of non-conformances and implement corrective action.

· Work with facility maintenance and other departments for any Sterilizer and CEA improvement/corrective activities.

· Participate in special projects as assigned.

· Reviews change control notifications for impact to sterilization/microbial testing.

· Assuring that the Microbiology / Sterilization function is maintained per industry standards.

TECHNICAL SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: An individual contributor with responsibility in our technical functions to advance existing technology or introduce new technology and therapies. Formulates, delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering R&D, systems or initiatives related to new technologies or therapies – from design to implementation - while adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Seasoned individual contributor.Works independently under limited supervision to determine and develop approach to solutions.
Coaches and reviews the work of lower level specialists; may manage projects / processes.

Organizational Impact: **May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area.**Contributes to the completion of work group objectives, through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments.

Innovation and Complexity: **Problems and issues faced are difficult, and may require understanding of multiple issues, job areas or specialties.**Makes improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of the job area.
Analysis provided is in-depth in nature and often provides recommendations on process improvements.

Communication and Influence: **Communicates with senior internal and external customers and vendors.**Exchange information of facts, statuses, ideas and issues to achieve objective, and influence decision-making.

Leadership and Talent Management: **May provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.**May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others' work product.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

Bachelor's degree

4 years of experience in sterilization and clean room (medical industry)

Advanced English

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.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits PackageA 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.

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