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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.\nA Day in the Life\nThe EMEA Loaner Operations function supports the availability, quality, and compliance of Medtronic loaner products used across multiple therapy areas throughout the region. The team is responsible for standardized value-added service processes, including kit build, cleaning, quality inspections, replenishment, and operational improvements that ensure products are available to support patient care and customer needs.This position is based in Heerlen, Netherlands and follows a Flex work model with four days per week onsite and one day per week working from home. No travel is expected for this role.\nAs a Manufacturing Engineer, you will lead the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of EMEA Loaner Operations processes. Acting as a process owner delegate, you will support quality system management, audit readiness, process validation, and cross-functional initiatives that enhance compliance, operational performance, and scalability across local loaner sites.\nPrimary Responsibilities\nOwn and improve loaner service processes including kit build, cleaning, audits, quality checks, replenishment, and interactions between local loaner sites.\nDevelop and maintain work instructions, process flows, risk assessments, control plans, and other process documentation.\nLead process validation activities and ensure compliance with quality system and regulatory requirements.\nIdentify and implement process improvements using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to improve quality, productivity, and cost efficiency.\nPartner with Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Marketing, and Operating Units to support new product introductions and lifecycle changes.\nSupport internal and external audits, maintain inspection readiness, and coordinate quality system updates.\nAssess process risks and implement effective mitigation and corrective action plans.\nProvide technical guidance to engineers and operations teams while supporting cross-functional improvement and capacity expansion projects.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's degree OR Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering or Industrial Engineering with 4+ years of manufacturing engineering or process engineering experience in a regulated industry.\nExperience with process development, process validation, and quality management systems.\nExperience supporting regulatory compliance and audit activities.\nExperience applying Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma methodologies for process improvement.\nFluency in Dutch and English.\nPreferred Qualifications\nLean Six Sigma Green Belt certification.\nExperience in medical device, pharmaceutical, or other highly regulated industries.\nExperience supporting new product introductions and product lifecycle management activities.\nExperience working with cross-functional teams across Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, and Operations.\nExperience standardizing processes across multiple operational sites.\nPhysical Job Requirements\nThe 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.\nRecruitment Fraud Alert\nWe are aware of phishing scams targeting job seekers. Please keep the following in mind:\nApply only through official Medtronic channels. All legitimate Medtronic recruiting communications come from approved Medtronic platforms and official @medtronic.com email addresses.\nMedtronic will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information (such as bank account or Social Security details) during early stages of the hiring process. Any such requests are not legitimate.\nIf you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Medtronic, do not respond, click links, or open attachments.\nIf you have any questions, concerns regarding the authenticity of a communication alleged to have been made by or on behalf of Medtronic, please contact us immediately at .\nBenefits & Compensation\nMedtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package\nA 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.\nPay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Netherlands: 56,000.00 EUR - 84,000.00 EUR | The final salary within this range will be determined based on objective, job-related criteria, including relevant experience, skills and qualifications, in accordance with our compensation framework.This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).","description_format":"text","description_chars":5318,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"Dutch","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false},{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Netherlands","iso":"NL","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Surgical Instruments & Devices","Orthopedic & Spine Implants","Diabetes Devices","Neurotech & Neuromodulation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-05T10:35:18Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":19,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":94303,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/medtronic-manufacturing-engineer-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/medtronic-manufacturing-engineer-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-09T16:03:06Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":23037,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-10T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":638},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=638"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmedtronic-manufacturing-engineer-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmedtronic-manufacturing-engineer-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmedtronic-manufacturing-engineer-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/medtronic-manufacturing-engineer-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmedtronic-manufacturing-engineer-2"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3798867}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"medtronic.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3798867},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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