Extrusion Technician III - Athlone

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

A Day in The Life Of:

• Working with the Advanced Manufacturing Engineering and supporting Operations teams to contribute to the development and qualification of robust processes for new products

• To qualify the new products, work is required on our primary processes to complete Feasibility studies, parameter Development studies, and Operational Qualification runs, including challenge runs at both low and high machine parameter settings to demonstrate process capability

• Preparing and reviewing validation protocols, results from trials and test work, parameter development and operational qualifications, including challenge tests to establish and demonstrate stable processes and capability

• Preparing and reviewing validation performance qualification protocols and reports, checking sample measurements, analysing data, compiling appropriate documentation

• The role also involves helping to ensure our products are manufactured to comply with product design requirements and Quality compliance

• Meeting with cross functional teams to help progress projects, giving insight into qualification/validation requirements and making recommendations

• Constructs, troubleshoots, calibrates, adjusts, tests, diagnoses, and maintains equipment, tooling, components, devices, or systems

• Performs calibration and alignment checks; makes adjustments, modifications, and replacements as directed; prepares prescribed compounds and solutions

• Working with internal and external stakeholders including capital equipment, materials and packaging suppliers to discuss and progress product and process validation improvements

• Can interpret schematics, engineering drawings, written and verbal instructions

• Understands the operation and functionality of process equipment; conducts tests and reports data in prescribed format

• Verifies qualification measurements, data, checks as required, to ensure right first-time entries into protocols and reports

• Includes raw materials, calibrations, metrology, product critical to quality markers, process, equipment, maintenance, environmental health & safety

Key Skills & Experience

• NFQ Level 6 or higher in technical discipline

• Requires minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in a highly regulated environment, typically Medtech/Pharma/Plastics processing environments

• Excellent Hands-On working knowledge of Extrusion

• Experience in planning, preparing and executing validations protocols and reports, writing and implementing procedures, development of processing parameters, executing and documenting trials, IQ/OQ/PQ, navigating quality management systems

• Experience in writing SOPs, Standard Work’s and Reports

• Familiar with problem solving techniques and methodologies

• Ability to adjust or recommend enhancements to systems, tooling and processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of job area

• Can work independently with general supervision

• A dynamic team player and can work effectively on cross-functional teams

• A good communicator and fluent in English, both in written and spoken

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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 Package
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.
 

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik:  Ireland: 38,400.00 EUR - 57,600.00 EUR |  

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Operations Incentive Plan (OIP).

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