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A Day in the Life

Job Specific Summary
At Medtronic, we are driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. We are committed to improving lives through our innovative surgical products and solutions. Join us, and help us make a difference in the lives of patients worldwide.

The Plant Maintenance Mechanic Technician II is responsible for preventive, corrective, and emergency maintenance of industrial equipment and systems within a medical metalworking plant. This key role focuses on ensuring that machinery and systems critical to production operate efficiently and continuously, in line with quality standards and medical industry regulations.

The technician will work closely with the production, engineering, and quality teams to diagnose technical issues, implement solutions, and optimize equipment performance. Additionally, they must be familiar with industrial safety protocols and medical industry regulations to ensure product quality and compliance.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Performs repairs and maintenance in plant or office facilities, or on machines and equipment.
• Typically performs work in one or more of the maintenance trades: carpentry, plumbing, painting, machine and equipment repair, electrical, sheet metal fabrication, and welding.
• Perform periodic inspections, adjustments, and repairs on production equipment such as lathes, milling machines, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, CNC machines, and other specialized equipment in medical metalworking.
• Diagnose mechanical, electrical, and electronic failures, proposing and executing immediate repairs or corrective maintenance plans.
• Collaborate in the development and implementation of preventive maintenance programs, ensuring that critical equipment operates optimally.
• Diagnose and resolve technical problems in real-time to minimize production downtime.
• Conducts routine, periodic, or special inspections to determine repair and maintenance work necessary to prevent breakdowns of facilities, machinery, and equipment.
• Assist in the installation of new equipment or modifications to existing equipment according to manufacturer specifications or plant requirements.
• Ensure installations and modifications comply with safety standards and production specifications in the medical environment.
• Maintain detailed records of repairs and maintenance performed, in accordance with plant procedures and applicable regulations.
• Uses hand and power tools.
• Tests, inspects, troubleshoots, and repairs machines and equipment.
• Uses blueprints, sketches, layouts, wiring diagrams, drawings, and specifications.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Requires full job knowledge of production-related systems and procedures obtained through prior work experience or education.
• Technician Degree in Industrial Maintenance, Mechanics, Electromechanics, or a related field.
• At least 3+ years of experience in maintaining industrial machinery, preferably in the metalworking or medical industry.
• Experience working with CNC equipment, precision machines, and automated systems.
• Strong knowledge of mechanics, electricity, electronics, hydraulics, and pneumatics.
• Ability to read blueprints, electrical diagrams, and technical manuals.
• Skilled in using diagnostic tools and maintenance software.
• Familiarity with regulations and standards applicable to the medical sector (ISO 13485, GMP).

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.



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

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 90,000+ 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.