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Principal Manufacturing Engineer - Injection Molding
Medtronic INC · 🇺🇸 Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, United States of America
Sponsorship verdict
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 193 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 106 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Medtronic INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles16 certified filings for “Principal Manufacturing Engineer” (Industrial Engineers) in MA: $103k–$126k, median $118k. Most were filed at wage level III (45%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 193 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 106 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 12 Oct 2026 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 The Principal Manufacturing Engineer - Injection Molding provides technical leadership and subject matter expertise for injection molding manufacturing operations at Medtronic's Medtronic Energy and Component Center (MECC) in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. MECC serves as a critical manufacturing hub within Medtronic, producing batteries, capacitors, connectors, feedthroughs, and other highly specialized components that support therapies and products used across multiple Medtronic businesses worldwide. In this role, you will serve as a key technical resource for molding operations, partnering closely with Manufacturing, Quality, Tooling, Operations, and New Product Introduction teams to ensure robust, capable, and efficient molding processes that consistently meet quality and business requirements. As a site injection molding technical expert, the Principal Manufacturing Engineer will support approximately a number molding operations while providing technical leadership, coaching, and guidance to engineers across the organization. This role is responsible for troubleshooting complex molding and tooling challenges, qualifying new and existing molds, leading process development and equivalency qualification activities, and driving strategic initiatives that advance manufacturing capability and performance. The successful candidate will combine deep injection molding expertise with strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills to influence technical decisions, mentor engineering talent, and help shape the future molding strategy for a manufacturing organization that delivers critical components used in life-changing medical technologies. At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working 5 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned. • Designs manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining and material handling. • Designs arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout. • Designs sequence of operations and specifies procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance. • Adapts machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions. • May incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan. • Inspects performance of machinery, equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency, and investigates and initiates corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure product quality. • Develops manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control, and may develop those techniques. • Provides guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques. • Ensures processes and procedures are in complianc