Engineering Program Manager Jobs in Florida

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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.

A Day in the Life

As one of three comprehensive portfolios at Medtronic, Neuroscience is dedicated to improving the lives of people living with neurological disorders, spine conditions, and chronic pain. Guided by our Mission—to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life - we develop technologies and therapies that help people regain function, reduce pain, and return to the activities that matter most.

Our Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) Operating Unit provides innovative technologies that support clinicians in treating sinus, otology, head and neck, skull base, airway, and related conditions. Our ENT technology includes powered instruments, image-guided surgical systems, and sinus implants that enhance precision, safety, and efficiency across both office and operating room settings—helping improve patient outcomes in a complex and evolving specialty.

Check us out on LinkedIn: Medtronic ENT

Career That Changes Lives

We are seeking a Core Team Operations Representative (CTOR) / Engineering Program Manager to join our Neuroscience Ear, Nose, and Throat operating unit. As the global operations and supply chain lead on New Product Introduction (NPI) core teams, the CTOR is responsible for developing and executing the operations strategy that supports successful product development, transfer, and commercialization. This role provides leadership to a cross-functional team spanning Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain Planning, Sourcing, Category Management, Supplier Quality, and external manufacturing partners to ensure alignment, readiness, and execution across all operational workstreams.

The CTOR serves as the voice of Operations throughout the product development lifecycle, driving value stream selection, capacity and supply planning, risk mitigation, and manufacturing readiness. This individual is accountable for ensuring operational deliverables, project milestones, and performance metrics are achieved on time while proactively identifying and resolving issues that could impact product launch objectives. The role also partners closely with R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and Marketing teams to ensure seamless integration of operational requirements into product development plans and successful transition into commercial production.

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Lead cross functional teams including Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain Planning, Category Management, Sourcing, Contract Manufacturers / OEM, and Supplier Quality through the product development process to ensure successful completion of development projects and business goals
• Establish and implement operational plans and strategies. Assess project issues and develop resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives
• Develop, communicate, and document project strategies and plans including operations budget and detailed schedule creation and maintenance
• Lead all manufacturing and supply chain schedule risk burn down
• Gather and manage requirements to ensure they meet demands of project’s key stakeholders
• Champion and document the Voice of Operations
• Ensure alignment between operations and core team
• Ensure operations aspects of Quality System Compliance, Design History File, and Regulatory submissions are properly documented
• Coordinate development builds across value streams
• Lead decision making for facility locations, make-buy decisions, business continuity
• Facilitate launch build planning, capacity planning and execution and Commercialization Readiness activities
• Provide indirect people management and development

Location: Jacksonville, Florida (Onsite)

Onsite: At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. We’re working onsite 4 days a week to drive performance, foster an environment of belonging, and collaborate to inspire as we engineer the extraordinary. This role will require X% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile and on your resume.

• Bachelors degree with minimum of 5 years of relevant engineering experience,
• Or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant engineering experience

Nice to Have

• Bachelors or advanced degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Material Science, Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline
• Experience managing and leading complex projects that involved balancing risk, influencing diverse teams, and responsibility for outcomes
• Experience in new product or new process development including launch
• PMP certification
• Experience working in medical device or other regulated industry
• Experience supervising or managing others
• Green or Black Belt in Design for Reliability and Manufacturability (DRM)

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.

Join us in our mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life—where your unique background and perspective are valued.

Benefits & Compensation

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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD): $142,400.00 - $213,600.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others). The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

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.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. (“Medtronic”) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.