
Mechanical Engineering Manager - Released Products
Medtronic · Fridley, MN
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Reliability
- Base pay
- $142k–$214k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Medical devices
- Posted
- 2 days ago
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A management reliability role at Medtronic (medical devices) in Fridley, MN. If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Medtronic, do not respond, click links, or open attachments.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause, CAPA, ISO 13485, FDA / GMP
- Base pay
- $142k–$214k
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 26, 2026
Reliability Engineer roles in Minnesota: typical posted base $105k–$152k. This one lists $142k–$214k.
Median of the low and high ends of 6 live postings that list pay, out of 7 reliability engineer openings in Minnesota, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Minnesota plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 570 other live reliability postings in the US.
- Base pay
- About 42% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- Typical (5+ years)
Typical $105k–$145k, from 198 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 55%
- Team leadership 27%
- FMEA 25%
- Automation 23%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for CAPA, ISO 13485, FDA / GMP, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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Full description from MedtronicAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Responsibilities
- ◆Lead, coach, and develop a team of mechanical engineers supporting engineering activities across the Neuromodulation and Pelvic Health portfolio.
- ◆Establish team priorities, allocate resources, and drive execution across multiple concurrent engineering initiatives.
- ◆Direct complex technical investigations, root cause analyses, corrective and preventive action (CAPA) activities, and product remediation efforts.
- ◆Partner with Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Operations, Clinical, and Product Development teams to resolve product and process issues.
- ◆Oversee design changes and product modifications through established design control and change management processes.
- ◆Drive risk identification, mitigation planning, and technical decision-making to support product performance and patient safety.
- ◆Support supplier-related investigations, qualification activities, and manufacturing issue resolution as needed.
- ◆Monitor team performance, resource utilization, and workload planning while developing technical capability and leadership within the organization.
Required Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree with 3 years of relevant experience
- ✓2 years of experience with people leadership or leading technical teams and complex engineering projects
- ✓Experience working in a regulated industry utilizing formal design control processes.
- ✓Experience leading technical investigations and driving cross-functional issue resolution.
- ✓Experience managing multiple priorities and stakeholders while supporting business and operational objectives.
- ✓Engineering experience in product development, mechanical design, sustaining engineering, manufacturing engineering, or released product support.
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
- ✓Medical device industry experience supporting released products or sustaining engineering organizations.
- ✓Experience with corrective and preventive action (CAPA), complaint investigations, risk management, and change control processes.
- ✓Knowledge of Food and Drug Administration (FDA), International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 13485, and global medical device regulations.
- ✓Experience supporting implantable medical devices, neurostimulation systems, patient programmers, handsets, or related technologies.
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.
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responsibilities
and skills of this position.
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Responsibilities
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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
At Medtronic Neuroscience, we bring innovation, expertise, and purpose together to improve care for people living with neurological, spinal, and chronic pain conditions. Our technologies help restore function, improve quality of life, and support better outcomes for patients around the world.
This engineering leadership role oversees a team of mechanical engineers responsible for supporting released Neuromodulation and Pelvic Health products. The position provides technical and organizational leadership across sustaining engineering activities, product investigations, design changes, manufacturing support, and cross-functional issue resolution to help ensure product quality, reliability, and patient safety.
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