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

Relieving pain, restoring health, and extending life — it is guided by this mission that Medtronic continues to bring its innovative therapies to millions of patients. Today, you have the opportunity to join the world’s largest medical device company and take part in this daily challenge. By joining our teams, you will be at the heart of our values.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
Validation Leadership – NPI & Design Transfer

• Lead validation activities during New Product Introduction (NPI) and technology transfer to manufacturing
• Define, own, and execute process validation strategies aligned with product, process, and regulatory requirements
• Act as the validation subject matter expert during design transfer phases
• Partner with R&D to ensure Design for Manufacturability (DfM) and validation readiness early in development
• Review product designs, specifications, and manufacturing processes to ensure robustness and compliance
• Lead the development and execution of validation deliverables, including: process validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), equipment and system qualification, test method validation (where applicable)
• Ensure effective and compliant design transfer through: risk management activities (e.g., FMEA), process characterization and capability studies, complete, audit ready documentation aligned with regulatory expectations
• Support and lead pilot builds, engineering runs, and ramp up to high volume production
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate technical and validation risks to ensure successful product launches

Manufacturing & Sustaining Support

• Serve as the validation technical authority for manufacturing operations
• Lead investigations for validation related deviations, CAPAs, and change controls
• Ensure processes and systems remain in a validated state throughout their lifecycle
• Support continuous improvement initiatives while maintaining compliance

Cross functional Leadership

• Collaborate closely with Manufacturing, Quality, R&D, Engineering, and Supply Chain
• Influence technical decisions to balance quality, compliance, cost, and delivery
• Provide guidance and mentoring to junior validation engineers
• Represent Validation during audits, inspections, and cross site initiatives

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or related field (e.g., HEIG VD, HES SO, or equivalent)
• Typically 7+ years of experience in validation, manufacturing engineering, or quality in a regulated industry
• Strong experience with validation lifecycle management (IQ/OQ/PQ)
• Experience in MedTech or pharmaceutical manufacturing
• Exposure to automated or high volume production environments
• Solid understanding of GMP, ISO 13485, and regulatory expectations
• Strong technical and analytical problem solving skills
• Ability to work independently and lead complex validation activities
• Excellent documentation and communication skills
• Proven ability to influence cross functional stakeholders
• Structured, risk based mindset

 

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. 

 

 

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.
 

 

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik:  Switzerland: 92,000.00 CHF - 138,000.00 CHF | 

 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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