Senior Packaging Engineer - Cardiac Surgery

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 16 Apr 2026 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. A Day in the Life At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. Our Cardiac Surgery Packaging Engineering Team is committed to excellence, innovation, and collaboration, working at the intersection of engineering rigor and real-world impact. We are looking for someone who brings not only strong technical expertise in sterile packaging design, materials, and validation strategies, but also curiosity, ownership, and enthusiasm to continuously improve and challenge the status quo. We are seeking a passionate and driven Packaging Engineer to join our team and play a critical role in advancing sterile barrier solutions for life-changing medical devices. In this role, you could either assess current designs or design new robust packaging systems, including pouches, trays, and other sterile formats, to ensure product integrity, patient safety, and regulatory compliance. We're working onsite 4 days a week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. In your role, you will work at the Brooklyn Park, Minnesota location. The Senior Packaging Engineer ensures the compliant, timely, and cost-effective implementation of packaging changes for released products across the portfolio by managing sustaining packaging updates such as design and supplier changes, CAPAs, cost reduction initiatives, and SOGL activities. The position supports remediation and compliance initiatives, including audit and regulatory submission support, standards impact assessments, reviews of new or revised regulations, tender requests, and field complaint investigations. In partnership with manufacturing sites and global distribution centers, the role resolves packaging issues by providing tier process support for package design and packaging processes, consulting on repack line setup, and maintaining packaging specifications in alignment with applicable standards. We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive. Our unwavering commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity (ID&E) means zero barriers to opportunity within Medtronic and a culture where all employees belong, are respected, and feel valued for who they are and the life experiences they contribute. We know equity starts beyond our workplace, and we must play a role in addressing systemic inequities in our communications to achieve long-term sustainable impact. Anchored in our Mission, we continue to drive ID&E forward both to enhance the well-being of Medtronic employees and to accelerate innovation that brings our lifesaving technologies to more people in more places around the world. Bring your talents to an industry leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions – we’re a market leader and growing every day. You can be proud to be a part of technologies that are rooted in our long history of mission-driven innovation. You will be empowered to shape your own career. We encourage and support your growth with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to own your future success. Together, we can transform healthcare. Join us for a career in IT that changes lives. Medtronic is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture. Check out the accomplishments of our Women in IT group! http://bit.ly/MedtronicWomeninIT CAREERS THAT CHANGE LIVES Support plant-driven packaging initiatives, providing technical expertise and de ... (truncated, view full listing at source)