Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager - (Electronic Medical Systems)
Boston Scientific · Maple Grove, MN
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Reliability
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 10+ years
- Industry
- Medical devices
- Posted
- 17 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management reliability role at Boston Scientific (medical devices) in Maple Grove, MN. As Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager - (Electronic Medical Systems), you will lead and develop a team of mechanical hardware engineers responsible for the design, development, verification, commercialization and ongoing support of innovative electronic.
- They ask for
- 10+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ)
- Day to day
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Reliability Engineer roles in Minnesota: typical posted base $95k–$130k.
Median of the low and high ends of 12 live postings that list pay, out of 16 reliability engineer openings in Minnesota, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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- Team leadership 38%
- Root cause 31%
- ✓ Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 31%
- FDA / GMP 25%
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This plant: Boston Scientific in Maple Grove
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About the role
Boston Scientific was recognized by Forbes as one of the Best Workplaces for Engineers in 2026, reflecting a culture where engineers do meaningful work.
As Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager - (Electronic Medical Systems), you will lead and develop a team of mechanical hardware engineers responsible for the design, development, verification, commercialization and ongoing support of innovative electronic medical equipment (EME) within Boston Scientific's Interventional Cardiology division.
You will provide technical and organizational leadership for mechanical product architecture and design execution, guiding teams through exploratory development, new product development, transfer to manufacturing and product sustainment. You will collaborate across engineering disciplines and functions to deliver safe, reliable, high-quality products in a regulated medical device environment.
Required qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Biomedical, Biotechnical, Electromechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- ✓10+ years of relevant mechanical engineering or product development experience, including experience developing complex hardware or electromechanical products.
- ✓3+ years of experience in technical or engineering management, including demonstrated leadership, coaching, and development of engineers.
- ✓Demonstrated experience guiding mechanical product design, integration, technical reviews, and verification and validation activities.
- ✓Ability to solve complex technical problems and make sound decisions across competing technical, schedule, cost, and quality requirements.
- ✓Working knowledge of disciplined product development practices, engineering documentation, and quality and regulatory
requirements
in a structured development environment.
- ✓Strong written, verbal, presentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Preferred qualifications
- ✓Master’s degree in mechanical engineering or a related field.
- ✓Experience with Class II or Class III medical device development and commercialization, particularly electronic medical equipment.
- ✓5+ years of direct R&D people management experience leading mechanical engineers.
- ✓Experience with medical electrical equipment standards, such as IEC 60601, as applicable to mechanical design and system integration.
- ✓Experience with mechanical architecture, structural and thermal design, tolerance analysis, reliability, and electromechanical integration.
- ✓Experience with design controls, risk management, design transfer, and manufacturing or field support for commercial products.
- ✓Experience collaborating with external design firms, manufacturing partners, operations, test engineering, and process development teams.
Minimum Salary: $ 125800
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Additional Location(s): US-MN-Maple Grove
Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance
At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.
Work model, sponsorship, relocation
At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This is an on-site position requiring employees to work at our Arbor Lakes facility in Maple Grove, Minnesota, office four to five days per week. Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time. Relocation assistance may be available for this position.
Your
will include
- •Lead, recruit, coach, and develop a high-performing mechanical engineering team; provide timely feedback, career development, and succession and capability planning.
- •Own and guide mechanical engineering strategy, architecture, design decisions, and technical execution for EME programs from early feasibility through commercialization and product sustainment.
- •Provide technical direction to experienced engineers and technical leads who operate with significant independence; review critical design tradeoffs, risks, and complex problem-solving approaches.
- •Partner with program managers and cross-functional leaders to assess staffing, skills, priorities, schedules, and resource needs across the Interventional Cardiology portfolio.
- •Oversee mechanical design outputs and technical reviews, including requirements, specifications, design documentation, design verification and validation plans, and evidence of design performance.
- •Ensure mechanical development activities comply with applicable internal procedures, design controls, quality system requirements, risk management processes, and relevant medical equipment standards.
- •Drive robust mechanical system integration in collaboration with electrical, systems, software, test, quality, regulatory, manufacturing, and service teams.
- •Guide design for manufacturability, assembly, reliability, serviceability, and cost; support design transfer, manufacturing readiness, external partners, and post-launch technical investigations.
- •Build strategic partnerships across Boston Scientific and with external engineering or manufacturing partners to achieve program and organizational objectives.
- •Promote disciplined technical decision-making, innovation, continuous improvement, effective change leadership, and an inclusive environment where team members can contribute fully.
- •Develop and execute departmental operating plans, processes, and priorities; manage budgets, external design resources, and engineering investments to meet business objectives.
- •Communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, program status, and recommendations clearly to cross-functional stakeholders and senior leadership.