Project Coordinator Jobs in Minnesota

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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

This role provides advanced operational and administrative support for a technical lab and project portfolio environment, ensuring work moves efficiently from intake through execution. The position manages request systems, scheduling, material readiness, documentation, purchasing, inventory, and resource coordination while tracking project status, dashboards, and key metrics to support visibility and throughput across multiple priorities.

The role also helps maintain safe, compliant, and well-organized lab operations by supporting EHS expectations, audits, quality and regulatory requirements, and standardized work practices. In addition, it drives continuous improvement, coordinates meetings and follow-up actions, manages SharePoint and knowledge systems, and provides portfolio-level support for travel, vendor coordination, and other business processes to reduce administrative burden on technical teams and improve overall operational effectiveness.

Onsite:

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 5 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Manage lab request systems, intake workflows, and work queues to ensure clear prioritization and throughput
• Oversee material readiness, part movement, and documentation to enable seamless execution
• Maintain lab scheduling, equipment calendars, and technician workload balancing (including vendor/facility coordination)
• Support purchasing, inventory, tooling storage, and overall lab resourcing
• Track and report project status, dashboards, and key metrics
• Identify and escalate schedule risks, resource constraints, and material shortages
• Coordinate team meetings, agendas, and follow-ups as needed
• Support safety, EHS expectations, audits, and required training - ensure safe, compliant, and efficient lab operations
• Maintain and standardize work instructions, documentation practices, and lab processes
• Drive continuous improvement and change management to improve efficiency and communication
• Ensure alignment with quality and regulatory requirements, as well as support audit readiness and document control
• Provide portfolio-level operational support for the MTx project portfolio, including coordination of travel, purchasing, and vendor-related activities, ensuring compliance with corporate processes and minimizing administrative burden on technical project teams.
• Manage project documentation and knowledge systems, including ownership of SharePoint sites and the MTx technology catalog, ensuring project artifacts are complete, current, and consistently organized to support transparency, reuse, and audit readiness.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

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

• Requires advanced practical knowledge within a specific discipline typically gained through extensive work experience and/or education.
• Requires minimum of 6 years of relevant experience

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting engineering, manufacturing, or R&D organizations, preferably within a manufacturing or medical device environment.
• Familiarity with project portfolio management tools, reporting dashboards, and PMO processes.
• Experience using Power BI, Microsoft Office, Teams, and SharePoint to support reporting, collaboration, and communication.
• Experience managing purchasing activities, expense reporting, and vendor coordination within a corporate environment.
• Strong written communication skills with the ability to create clear, structured content for technical and cross-functional audiences.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, matrixed environment and supporting multiple stakeholders.
• Experience supporting internal communications or outreach efforts such as newsletters, conference coordination, internal engagement platforms.

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): $62,400.00 - $93,600.00

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.