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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.

The Medtronic site located in Kerkrade, the Netherlands, is evolving into a high-performance, data-driven, and connected manufacturing environment, supporting cleanroom assembly, warehousing, and quality operations. As part of this transformation, we have combined our value chain enabling functions — Process Engineering, Maintenance & Facility Services, Operational Excellence, and Environmental Health & Safety — into a multidisciplinary support department. This team deploys Flow Acceleration-style production cells, harmonizes Tier management structures, and drives changeover minimization across assembly operations.

We are looking for a Senior Process Engineer who is an engaged process improver with a track record of delivering performance improvements in manufacturing. You will work directly on the production floor, engaging supervisors, cell leads, and operators, while applying analytical, structured, and data-driven approaches to improve productivity, process robustness, and compliance.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Develop, improve, and simplify processes across the value chain, including assembly, warehousing, and quality control
• Provide engineering support for troubleshooting, operator guidance, and continuous improvement
• Facilitate daily Tier management huddles and lead problem-solving initiatives
• Optimize productivity, capacity, process robustness, safety, and compliance using DMAIC, Flow Acceleration, SMED, and other Operational Excellence methodologies
• Develop Standard Work, work instructions, and operator training tools to improve procedural adherence and operational performance
• Plan, execute, and report on equipment qualification and process validation (Design of Experiments, FMEA, Statistical Process Control)
• Lead engineering projects, ensuring solid planning, execution, monitoring, and reporting
• Support process automation, digitization, and data-driven performance visualization, aligning with other enabling functions such as QA, Maintenance, EHS, and Operational Excellence

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in multidisciplinary manufacturing environments, with proven success as a process or manufacturing engineer
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing technologies, industrial engineering, assembly processes, and process automation
• Demonstrable track record in performance improvement, productivity, and process robustness
• Expertise in continuous improvement methodologies such as DMAIC, Value Stream Analysis, SMED, Material Flow, Tier Management, 5S, Flow Acceleration
• Experience with Equipment Qualification, Process Validation, and statistical tools
• Data-driven mindset, skilled in developing and visualizing performance management structures
• Strong project leadership skills, delivering on time and exceeding expectations
• Analytical, structured, and results-oriented, with the ability to work on the shop floor and engage with all levels of the organization
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in industrial engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
• Fluency in English; Dutch proficiency preferred
• Solid experience with Office 365 and business intelligence/reporting tools such as Power BI
• Affinity for regulated, system-structured industries (medical devices, pharma, food, automotive)
• Willingness to travel internationally (<5%) as required
• Preferably Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt

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.

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: Netherlands: 69,040.00 EUR- 103,560.00 EUR|

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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.

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