Principal Engineering Project Management Specialist

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 13 Jun 2025

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

At the intersection of healthcare innovation and project management expertise, we invite you to lead the charge in ensuring customer satisfaction design integrity, and impeccable quality across each milestone. Join our esteemed team as a Principal Project Manager within the Robotic Surgical Technologies (RST) business, building on our Hugo™ surgical robotics platform as we develop new features and expand into new markets.
We seek out and hire a diverse workforce at every level: We need fresh ideas and inclusive insights to continue to be an innovative industry leader — that’s why we make it a point to seek out, attract and develop employees who are patient-centric, passionate, and who represent the same wide variety of life experiences as our patients.

This position will sit at our Boston, MA site. Travel up to 10%, primarily in US.

As a Principal Engineering Project Management Specialist, you will lead a variety of New Product Development projects centered around our Hugo™ platform. This pivotal role will lead cross functional teams through our Product Development Process, from concept development through launch, delivering novel solutions to our patients and customers. The role has high visibility, with regular presentations to the SW executive leadership team to communicate project status, schedule, risks, and other key program metrics.

Are you poised to be a trailblazer, leaving your imprint on the realm of modern medicine? The opportunity is here, and we invite you to explore it with us. 

You Will:

• Lead multifaceted cross-functional teams, encompassing Design, Development, Verification, Validation, Documentation. Guide them through the product development journey, ensuring project success and aligning with business objectives. 
• Develop and uphold project plans, schedules, risk registers, budgets, and resource allocation for designated projects. Champion timely and effective communication, continuously updating stakeholders on the project's advancement. 
• Manage project meetings, meticulously document meeting minutes and pivotal decisions, and diligently track action items. 
• Foster harmony between the project team, the business, and other stakeholders. Integrate input early in process development and quality planning. 
• Establish robust channels for both formal and informal communication, relaying accurate and current information to all stakeholders. 
• Organize and guide a diverse array of distributed, cross-functional resources toward triumphant outcomes. 
• Serve as the primary liaison for prominent leaders and stakeholders spanning the organization. 
• Engage stakeholders, ensuring their involvement in shaping end products and processes that effectively address business challenges. 
• Contribute to project prioritization decisions by offering data-driven insights and analysis derived from ongoing and previous projects. 

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant scientific discipline
• Minimum of 7 years of project management experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years experience
• Expert skills with Microsoft Project and critical chain analysis

Nice to Have

• Master’s degree in Engineering and/or scientific discipline, or MBA 
• PMP Certification or other PMI certification
• Experience with ProChain scheduling methodology
• Expert skills with managing project plan, scope, schedule, budget, and risk register
• Agile Software Development certification, including SAFe
• Lean/Six Sigma Certification
• Expert skills in JIRA, JAMA, Polarion, PowerBI tools
• Experience leading diverse and complex projects and programs and coordinating multiple teams to execute concurrent, interdependent projects. 
• Knowledge of medical device R&D, product development, and clinical/regulatory procedures; including identifying use conditions, developing requirements, and implementing risk management activities like failure mode analysis
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and able to influence all customers (both internal and external) on issues that impact the business and its technical service and product strategies
• Expert active listening skills with a keen awareness for various messaging styles; and polished ability to tailor delivery to a broad range of audiences 
• Exceptional influencing and interpersonal skills, negotiating; managing change; goal setting; planning and organizing teamwork; ability to address difficult situations; conflict resolution; resource constraint and problem solving. 
• Experience participating in internal and external audits as a Subject Matter Expert
• Comprehensive knowledge of medical device standards and regulations (e.g., IEC 60601, IEC 62304, ISO 14971, ISO 13485).

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.

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 - $213,600.00This 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, andSimple 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), andCapital 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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.

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.