Senior Packaging Engineer page is loaded## Senior Packaging Engineerremote type: Flexible Work Arrangementlocations: Galway, County Galway, Irelandtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Yesterdaytime left to apply: End Date: December 12, 2025 (13 days left to apply)job requisition id: R47135At 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**At Medtronic plc, the Senior Packaging Engineer will play a key role in New Product Introduction (NPI) by designing, developing, qualifying, and implementing sterile packaging solutions for innovative medical devices within the Cardiovascular portfolio. This position supports the full product development lifecycle—from concept and feasibility through verification/validation and commercialization—to ensure packaging solutions meet the highest standards of performance and regulatory compliance.The role focuses on delivering packaging systems that protect advanced medical technologies while ensuring patient safety, usability, sustainability, cost-effectiveness, and seamless integration into global manufacturing and distribution processes. Working cross-functionally with R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Supplier Engineering, and Operations, the Senior Packaging Engineer will influence material selection, test method development, and packaging process readiness, while also providing technical leadership and mentoring to junior engineers.Through this work, the Senior Packaging Engineer directly contributes to Medtronic’s mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape packaging strategy for life-saving cardiovascular devices and to drive continuous improvement, innovation, and excellence across packaging development activities.***Come for a job, stay for a career!*****A Day in The Life Of:**As our Senior Packaging Engineer, key responsibilities will include:* Developing sterile packaging components and assemblies for cardiovascular medical devices, ensuring robust, compliant, and sustainable designs that support NPI and commercialization* Serving as a subject matter expert on cross-functional project teams, providing guidance on packaging design, materials, manufacturing processes, and risk management* Supporting verification, validation, and implementation of packaging systems through test method development, execution of protocols, and data-driven qualification* Collaborating with Packaging and Labelling peers across Medtronic to share best practices and implement innovative technologies and materials* Providing technical support for manufacturing initiatives, addressing packaging-related issues, optimizing processes, and supporting technology transfers* Investigating issues, driving corrective and preventive actions, and generating high-quality technical documentation in accordance with regulatory and quality system requirements* Leading and influencing cross-functional teams using strong project management skills while mentoring and supporting the development of junior engineers**Key Skills & Experience*** Minimum Level 8 bachelor’s degree required in Engineering/Science or related discipline with 4+ years’ experience OR Master's with 2 years* Experience in biomedical materials, material processing, and medical device packaging design, with a proven track record in innovative package development and manufacturing support* Strong understanding of sterile barrier systems, verification/validation, and regulatory/quality system requirements for medical device packaging* Demonstrates integrity, sound judgment, and a strong commitment to ethics, compliance, and high-quality decision-making* Excellent collaboration and communication skills, able to work effectively across functions and simplify complex technical information* Accountable, driven, and capable of making confident decisions in challenging or fast-paced situations**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.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* **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
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