Principal Manufacturing Engineering - Operations Lead

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 28 Sep 2026   Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact. A Day in the Life The Principal Manufacturing Engineer (Operations Lead) provides technical and operational leadership at Medtronic's Medtronic Energy and Component Center (MECC) in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. MECC serves as a critical manufacturing hub within Medtronic, producing batteries, capacitors, connectors, feedthroughs, and other highly specialized components that support therapies and products used across multiple Medtronic businesses worldwide. In this role, you will serve as a key engineering leader within manufacturing operations, partnering closely with Production, Quality, Supply Chain, Maintenance, and New Product Introduction teams to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient manufacturing performance. As an Operations Lead, the Principal Manufacturing Engineer will drive resolution of complex manufacturing challenges, lead continuous improvement initiatives, and provide strategic direction for process, equipment, quality, and operational excellence efforts. This role is responsible for optimizing manufacturing performance, expanding process capability, supporting capacity and technology investments, and developing sustainable solutions that improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost. The successful candidate will combine deep technical expertise with strong cross-functional leadership to influence decision-making, mentor engineering talent, and support the continued growth of a manufacturing organization that delivers critical components powering life-changing medical technologies. At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working 5 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.                     Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned. Designs manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining and material handling. Designs arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout. Designs sequence of operations and specifies procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance. Adapts machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions. May incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan. Inspects performance of machinery, equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency, and investigates and initiates corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure product quality. Develops manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control, and may develop those techniques. Provides guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques. Ensures processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.

Bachelor's degree and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience   OR   Master's   degree with a minimum of 5   years   relevant experience   OR PhD with 3 years relevant experience     Preferred Qualifications   Experience supporting manufacturing operations in a regulated industry such as medical   device ,   pharmaceutical ,