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Principal Packaging Engineer
Apply remote type Hybrid locations Parkmore, County Galway, Ireland time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday time left to apply End Date: July 23, 2025 (20 days left to apply) job requisition id R30999
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
• Responsible for development, validation and implementation of package systems and processes for sterile medical devices including components, assemblies, and labels.
• Will participate on cross-functional, cross-site project team focusing on designing and implementation of new packaging for new products within Cardiovascular
• Utilize knowledge of FDA and ISO requirements related to packaging and labeling, ensuring robust package validation and qualification
• Draft technical documentation including package testing protocols and validation associated with the qualification and release of package designs
• Develop plans to establish proof of shelf life, accelerated and real time.
• Coordinate projects and deadlines working with other package engineers and other functions to ensure deliverables are met on time.
• Serve actively in the identification of suppliers, testing and approving materials, including liaison with suppliers.
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 Packaging Engineering Department in Medtronic, plc, we focus on new product introduction (NPI) supporting product development by designing, qualifying and implementing new sterile package designs for new products within the Cardiovascular portfolio of products.
Our focus is on delivering sterile package designs that ensure customer & patient needs are met while maintaining high quality, that are cost effective and sustainable, while being optimized for manufacturing and distribution.
The Principal Package Engineer is directly involved in achieving this goal and in the achievement of our mission to contribute to human welfare by manufacturing products that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.
Come for a job, stay for a career!
A Day in The Life Of:
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
* Identifies opportunities to create significant end user, patient and business value through sterile package designs.
* Leads voice of customer activities, including on-site interviews, focus groups and industry events, to identify packaging functionality that assist medical teams in the performance of a therapy.
* Identifies designs and processes that optimize manufacturability and barrier performance while lowering cost and risk.
* Collects and validates input from all sources, then conceptualizes package designs and methods that incorporate the improvements.
* Assists in supplier selection, prototyping, and feasibility studies.
* Provides technical guidance to packaging engineering team members including root cause failure analysis, testing methods, material selection, design and solid modeling assistance, prototyping and manufacturing defect resolution.
* Provides project management support to packaging engineering team members including relationship building with internal cross functional teams, vendor selection, use of design and manufacturing methodologies, risk analysis and mitigation plan, plus over project oversight.
* Lead packaging development programs as required.
* Leads the improvement and optimization of packaging group operating practices with focus on best practices, stakeholder value, quality, and cost effectiveness.
* Utilize knowledge of FDA, ISO, and EN requirements related to packaging and labeling.
Key Skills & Experience
* Level 8 Degree and minimum 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with a BS BioMechanical, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, Packaging or related engineering field
* Medical device sterile packaging, R&D, manufacturing or field technical support experience
* 2-3 years use of mechanical design (SolidWorks, PTC or other), statistical analysis (MatLab, MiniTab or other)
* Knowledgeable in ISO, ASTM, ISTA standards and test methods related to packaging
* Experience with terminally sterilized package design, materials, sealing methods, operating room procedures and sterilization methods.
* Solid proficiency in MS applications
* Familiarity with FDA and EU quality assurance requirements for design and manufacturing
* Ability to travel up to 15%, both domestic and international
* Basic understanding of circulatory, venous, and heart related disease states and therapies
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.
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
Who We Are
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.
What We Do
We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.
We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.
This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…
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 learning
How We Are Different
These 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 care
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