Senior Equipment Engineer

About this role

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 31 Aug 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 In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We're working onsite 4 days a week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. In your role, you may work from the following Medtronic sites:

• Mounds View, Minnesota • North Haven, Connecticut

This role will require up to 50% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.                     The Senior Equipment Engineer supports the advancement of equipment reliability and maintenance excellence across manufacturing operations. This role contributes to the implementation of best practice standards for equipment performance and maintenance strategies while helping deploy elements of the Enterprise Maintenance Excellence (MEx) roadmap as part of the Medtronic Performance System (MPS), leveraging Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) principles. The position provides technical expertise to improve equipment uptime, support resolution of complex equipment issues, and assist in implementing preventative and predictive maintenance strategies that support a zero‑loss, zero‑downtime mindset.

In addition, the Senior Equipment Engineer partners closely with manufacturing, maintenance, and process engineering teams to support management of equipment assets and reliability initiatives. This role collaborates with internal subject matter experts and site teams to strengthen technical capabilities, participates in root cause analysis and structured problem-solving efforts, and builds strong cross‑functional relationships within a matrixed organization to support reliable, compliant, and efficient manufacturing operations.

Primary Responsibilities • Establishes best practice standards and principles for equipment requirements and maintenance.  

• Deploys the Enterprise Maintenance Excellence (MEx) roadmap as part of the Medtronic Performance System (MPS), leveraging Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) principles.

• Provides technical expertise on equipment performance and reliability.  

• Establishes programs and solutions to increase equipment uptime and resolve equipment issues impacting the manufacturing process, with a focus on a zero-loss and zero-downtime mindset.  

• Provides technical support to manufacturing maintenance equipment teams and process engineering teams.  

• Develops and deploys equipment and maintenance excellence initiatives by applying root cause analysis and advanced problem-solving methodologies across the enterprise.  

• Defines and develops preventative and predictive maintenance strategies.  

• Develops and motivates a highly talented, diverse engineering team responsible for the development and maintenance of the global equipment inventory.  

• Partners with internal and external experts to maintain and strengthen engineering and technical expertise.  

• Builds and nurtures cross-site and cross-functional relationships within a large, multi-site, matrixed organization.  

• Understands and complies with company policies, procedures, and external standards and regulatory guidance.  

• Generates innovative and unique solutions to complex engineering and organizational challenges.

Required Qualifications • 4+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 2+ years of experience (in equipment or maintenance engineering) with an advanced degree

• Bachelor degree must be in mechanical, electrical, reliability engineering, equipment control or related discipline

Preferred Qualifications • 4+ years relevant direct equipment or maintenance engineering experience

• Excellent team building, communications, and leadership skills.

• Experience in the application Total Performance Maintenance (TPM)

• CMRP or CRL certification

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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. 

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. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hir

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