Engineering Manager - Mechanical

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 This Engineering Manager position will lead the CST Mechanical Engineering team supporting the Neuroscience portfolio. The role is responsible for people leadership, technical and project oversight, resource planning, capability development, and delivery of product development and sustaining engineering initiatives. The manager will collaborate with global business and cross-functional partners to align priorities, strengthen engineering ownership, and ensure predictable delivery of high-quality engineering solutions. Primary Responsibilities : • Lead and develop a team of mechanical engineers supporting product development, sustaining engineering, technology advancement, and lifecycle management initiatives across the CST Neuroscience portfolio. • Provide functional, technical, and operational leadership while establishing clear priorities, objectives, roles, and accountability across the team. • Partner with global engineering and business leaders to understand portfolio priorities, define engagement models, and align team capabilities and resources with current and future program needs. • Provide engineering leadership for the development, sustainment, and lifecycle management of spinal implants and instrumentation, electrosurgical devices, and related enabling technologies, ensuring alignment with technical, quality, regulatory, and business requirements. • Oversee the planning and execution of multiple engineering projects, ensuring delivery against agreed scope, schedule, quality, cost, and technical objectives. • Provide technical oversight for mechanical design, engineering analysis, design verification, validation, documentation, risk management, engineering changes, and product release activities. • Ensure robust technical reviews and engineering decision-making to verify that designs meet safety, reliability, manufacturability, quality, regulatory, and performance requirements. • Ensure compliance with applicable Design Controls, quality-system requirements, engineering procedures, and medical device regulations throughout product development and sustaining activities. • Guide teams in developing and maintaining technical specifications, engineering analyses, drawings, design history documentation, and product lifecycle records. • Support risk-management activities, including Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA), risk assessments, hazard analyses, and associated mitigation strategies. • Establish resource and capacity plans based on portfolio demand, project priorities, technical complexity, and required engineering competencies. • Monitor execution, proactively identify risks and constraints, and work with stakeholders to implement timely mitigation and recovery plans. • Build organizational capability in mechanical design, product development, design controls, engineering analysis, verification and validation, risk management, and medical device lifecycle processes. • Drive continuous improvement in engineering practices, standard work, design quality, productivity, execution consistency, and knowledge management. • Promote the effective use of automation, modeling, simulation, digital engineering, and AI-enabled tools to improve engineering efficiency, quality, and decision-making. • Recruit, onboard, coach, mento