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Quality Technician III is a key support role within operations as part of the First Quality Response Team, responsible for rapid response to quality events, product status control, and containment execution on the shop floor. This role manages nonconformance activities, including inventory control, sorting strategies, and quality holds, while ensuring accurate reporting and data integrity. The technician translates quality issues into system actions such as Factory Works updates and quality changes, identifies process gaps, and drives improvements based on risk and trends. They lead or support process control forums, interpret data to prevent recurrence, and ensure decisions are effectively implemented. As an experienced contributor, they guide others, support daily operations, and help stabilize manufacturing through timely and effective quality actions
Shift: 2nd 2:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Performs analyses, inspection, and tests of raw materials, packaging materials, quantitative assays on samples, and/or finished products from manufacturing, to ensure quality standards and compliance to customer and regulatory requirements, and tolerance specifications for the chemical or physical property.
- Performs a variety of qualitative tests or qualitative assays on samples, and to aid in maintenance and certification of test instruments and apparatus to ensure compliance.
- Performs required inspections, checks, analysis and documentation of studies.
- Prepares and monitors quality statistics and reports.
- Reviews production records for conformance to procedures.
- Conducts non-conformance tests of manufactured, packaged or tested product.
Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires minimum of 4 years of relevant experience. Requires high school diploma or equivalent (United States), vocational or technical education or certification (all other countries).
Nice to Have Qualifications
- Working knowledge of Manufacturing Execution Systems to support manufacturing controls, ensure data integrity, and enable effective investigations
- Solid understanding of Quality Management Systems, including document control, nonconformance handling, corrective actions, and change management
- Familiarity with regulatory requirements such as FDA quality system regulations and ISO standards relevant to medical devices
- Experience using data and basic statistical analysis to support investigations, identify trends, and drive continuous improvement
- Exposure to structured problem-solving approaches such as Lean or Six Sigma, including disciplined investigation methods
- Hands-on use of statistical tools (for example, Minitab) to evaluate trends, assess process capability, and support root cause analysis
- Practical experience applying root cause tools like 5 Whys and Fishbone in a manufacturing or quality environment
- Experience with containment activities, reporting, process control, and management of quality holds
- Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and ability to work across functions to resolve issues
- Experience in the medical device industry
- Yellow Belt Certification or trained
- Profiency in tools like Microsoft Word, Excel, Minitab.
For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
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.
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.
U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship
At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.
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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.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Operations Incentive Plan (OIP).
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