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Sr. Mechanical Engineer at Medtronic in Caesarea, Haifa, Israel
Job Description
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
Location: Caesarea, Haifa, Israel · Flexible Work Arrangement
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
Join a multidisciplinary R&D team that develops and sustains innovative surgical platforms that help improve patient health. As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you will apply design-engineering expertise, hands-on technical skills, teamwork, and creative problem-solving to deliver high-quality medical devices used by healthcare professionals and patients worldwide.You will be part of the Released Product Management R&D team, collaborating across engineering, quality, manufacturing, and other functions to support and improve complex surgical platforms throughout their product lifecycle.
This is a hybrid position with the office located in Caesarea. You will report to the R&D released product manager.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Develop and implement mechanical design improvements for released products, including changes that enhance system reliability and scalable manufacturing
- Design, qualify, and document test fixtures, jigs, and tools, and provide engineering support for testing activities
- Support product configuration control and engineering change management processes
- Collaborate with external suppliers on component selection, manufacturing, and assembly
- Establish robust processes for analysing field failures and work with cross-functional engineering teams to define and implement corrective actions
- Lead technical investigations into product and process issues, using structured root-cause analysis to define and implement effective corrective actions
- Investigate audit findings and process flows, identify underlying gaps, and translate findings into practical engineering improvements
- Partner with Quality as the primary point of contact during internal and external audits
- Lead R&D corrective and preventive action activities and prepare clear, evidence-based responses to audit findings
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent with at least 3 years of Product design/NPI/Engineering experience. Medical device experience – an advantage.
- Extensive experience with highly accurate machined parts, sheet metal parts, and mechanisms.
- Experience in CAD tools such as SolidWorks is expected.
- Strong knowledge of metal and plastic component manufacturing processes.
- Knowledge on Engineering Change management processes and PLM tools such as PTC Windchill.
- Highly organized, excellent problem-solving skills and good team player
- Able to effectively work with cross functional teams in a multinational matrix organization
- Strong written and verbal communication skills both Hebrew and English
Good understanding of medical device standards, guidelines, and regulations, such as: ISO10993, IEC60601. and experience with Process Validations and qualification of equipment IQ/OQ/PQ, pFMEA are nice to have.
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.
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Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
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