Job Description

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

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 our Sterilisation Validation Department in Medtronic, plc, we focus on product quality excellence and providing exemplary service to the businesses & operating units we support. Our Sterilisation Quality Engineers anticipate and respond to changing sterility requirements, provide strategic leadership to influence the global sterility environment to benefit the patients we serve and are directly involved in building the organisation in support of Sterility Assurance assessments for New Product Development and site transfers.

Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life of

• Work on New Product Development as part of cross functional team to develop a sterilisation strategy in compliance to all regulatory standards.
• Working with NPD engineers to design protocols to ensure that new products/ product packaging changes are adequately tested with respect to biological/sterilisation requirements to guarantee compliance to all regulatory standards.
• Technical mentor and support for Sterilisation validation engineers
• Preparing protocols and reports for validation of new products / product packaging changes / SCCs / requalification activities of sterilisation processes.
• Liaise with manufacturing and R&D engineers to obtain test samples.
• Liaise with test laboratories, internal and external, to issue test details for testing required, to perform testing and to receive test results.
• Ensuring that all required testing is completed in timely manner and reports approved to meet project timelines.
• Support manufacturing on any sterilisation product related issues, and sterilisation and/or microbiological non-conformances
• External auditing of contract test laboratories and sterilisation facilities.
• Reviewing regulatory body standards to ensure compliance to all requirements and analysing potential gaps to standard updates
• Supporting the Regulatory Affairs department in preparing submissions to notified bodies and addressing any questions regarding these submissions.
• Representing Medtronic in audits of sterilisation area performed by internal auditors or notified bodies.
• Lead complex and time sensitive investigations

Key Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree (Level 8 NFQ) in a relevant technical discipline (e.g., Engineering, Science) with a minimum of 4 years relevant experience.
• Significant experience of sterilisation validation activities and microbiology in medical device or other regulated industry.
• Be focused on patient and customer, set high standards and install operational excellence.
• You are technically orientated and can work independently under limited supervision to determine and develop this best approach.
• You are a dynamic team player and leader and can work effectively and proactively on cross-functional teams with a high level of enthusiasm and motivation.
• Knowledge of Standards, regulatory requirements and guidelines is an advantage.
• Strong communication, organizational, presentation and project management skills are desirable.

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. 

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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: 64,640.00 EUR - 96,960.00 EUR | This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).