Senior Packaging Engineer

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

Medtronic

At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Our Purpose

At Medtronic’s Packaging & Labelling (P&L) Engineering Department, we focus on developing cutting edge medical device packaging for the Vascular & Implant Therapies space. Senior Packaging Engineers play a key role in delivering safe, compliant, and innovative packaging solutions that support Medtronic’s product portfolio and strategic objectives.

This role is ideal for an engineer who can lead complex workstreams, drive testing and validation activities, and collaborate effectively across cross functional teams in a fast paced, highly regulated environment. You will lead strategic redesigns of packaging systems to support cost improvement initiatives and apply strong technical problem-solving skills to deliver projects to defined timelines, goals, and budgets.

We are seeking a self-driven contributor who is comfortable balancing technical depth, project ownership, and dynamic program needs.

Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life Of:

• Develop sterile barrier systems, packaging components, and assemblies.

• Assess materials, processes, and configuration updates for cost, manufacturability, and sustainability goals.

• Interpret regulatory and technical requirements and translate them into clear requirements, specifications, test methods, and acceptance criteria.

• Lead creation and controlled release of specifications, drawings, protocols, reports, and material in the QMS ensuring cross functional alignment.

• Support equipment activities including requirements definition, vendor engagement, and qualification.

• Develop and align test plans, execute and coordinate verification/validation protocols, and prepare associated reports, characterization, and validation documentation.

• Support engineering builds, stakeholder coordination, and lab interactions.

• Oversee sample readiness and execution, ensuring materials, configurations, and process controls meet requirements.

• Contribute to validation activities (IQ/OQ/PQ) and aiding on floor or lab execution.

• Lead packaging workstreams within cross functional teams and track milestones, risks, and deliverables.

• Coordinate documentation reviews for phase gates and regulatory submissions.

• Identifying process improvements, inefficiencies, or risks and proposing actionable solutions.

• Act as a subject matter expert for peers, suppliers, and manufacturing partners.

Key Skills & Experience

• Qualified person with a minimum NRQ Level 8 degree in an Engineering/Science discipline and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience or Masters degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.

• We are looking for individuals with experience in biomedical materials, processing knowledge and medical packaging design procedures.

• We are looking for individuals with a proven track record in innovative package design, product development and manufacturing.

• Promotes and practices a culture of integrity, ethics and compliance with laws and policies.

• Collaborates across organizational boundaries.

• Translates complexity into simplicity and articulates clearly. Creates and communicates clear strategy & plans. Demonstrates good judgement.

• Takes accountability for and delivers consistent decisions, actions and results.

• Be passionate and driven, with the ability to making tough decisions in difficult situations.

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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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: 62,320.00 EUR - 93,480.00 EUR |  

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

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