Manafacturing Engineering Graduate - Operational Excellence -12 month contract - Athlone Site page is loaded## Manafacturing Engineering Graduate - Operational Excellence -12 month contract - Athlone Siteremote type: Flexible Work Arrangementlocations: Athlone, County Westmeath, Irelandtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todaytime left to apply: End Date: November 12, 2025 (5 days left to apply)job requisition id: R50498At 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**Manufacturing Engineer Graduate**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 our Operational Excellence department in Medtronic Athlone, we focus on creating a Mission Driven culture, enabling all our employees with the skills to continually improve the work we do every day and continually improve their processes. We deliver significant business results using scientific problem-solving techniques such as lean deployment and six sigma methodologies. The Manufacturing Graduate Engineer will be joining an established team and will be instrumental in leading, deploying, and implementing Lean and Continuous Improvement within the site. The Manufacturing Graduate Engineer will be directly involved in data collection and analysis, cell design and improvement, process optimization using lean and six sigma techniques while supporting day-to-day Operational Excellence activities.***Come for a job, stay for a career!*****A Day in Life Of:**Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned, training and ongoing support will be provided:* Analyze and design sequences of operations and workflow to improve efficiency in plant and production facilities and equipment layouts and will establish methods for maximum utilization of production facilities and personnel.* Facilitation and support of Kaizen events and other continuous improvement projects across the site production, inventory control, quality, and business processes.* Conduct studies pertaining to cost control, manufacturing timing standards, cost reduction, inventory requirements.* Recommend and implement improvements to production processes, methods, and controls to improve Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost.* Perform Value Stream Mapping and Analysis across manufacturing and business processes identifying key areas for improvement opportunities.* Support our current lean transformation program and gain knowledge in the lean transformation methodologies.* Learn and utilize Lean and Continuous Improvement tools and techniques – DMAIC, Yellow Belt problem solving, becoming Yellow Belt certified.**Key Skills & Experience*** Minimum of a level 7 degree in Manufacturing or Mechanical Engineering or similar Engineering qualification and graduated within the last 2 years.* A dynamic collaborator who can work effectively and proactively on cross functional teams.* Good communicator and fluent in English, both writing and speaking.* Builds and maintains positive relationships, show respect for others.* Skilled in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and AutoCAD (or similar 2D CAD)**Nice to Have:*** As part of their degree have studied and completed projects in lean or Six Sigma.* Has an appetite to work in a fast paced, dynamic manufacturing environment.* Will be flexible to the business need and be capable of juggling multiple assessments concurrently.**Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package** #INDJ #IJ**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.# **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* **Build** a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world* **Grow** a career reflective of your passion and abilities* **Connect** to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learningThese commitments set our team apart from the rest:**Experiences that put people first**. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.**Life-transforming technologies**. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.**Better outcomes for our world**. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.**Insight-driven care**. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in careIt is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare settingis considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click .For updates on job applications, please go to the candidate login page and sign in to check your application status.If you need assistance completing your application please email AskHR@medtronic.comTo request removal of your personal information from our systems please email RS.HRCompliance@medtronic.com
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