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
This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.
As a Systems Administrator within manufacturing operations, you will serve as a key technical resource responsible for supporting, maintaining, and enhancing systems to ensure reliable, compliant, and efficient manufacturing operations. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Manufacturing, Quality, IT, and Engineering to support the deployment of digital solutions, troubleshoot system issues, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
The Systems Administrator is expected to demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, a solid understanding of regulated manufacturing environments (e.g., FDA 21 CFR Part 11, GMP), and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced production setting. This role plays a critical part in ensuring system integrity, data accuracy, and adherence to validated processes.
Full On-Site position
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
Maintains smooth operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination with other IT functions.
Installs, operates, manages, and maintains hardware and/or software, including administrator and service accounts, maintenance of system documentation, tuning system performance, backup/recovery, and other planned configuration changes.
Interacts with users and other stakeholders to plan and implement changes and deliver support.
Contributes to evaluation and recommendations for vendor products, manages and monitors policies and standards for the use of computing resources, and executes on programs and projects within a specific IT function.
Management and provisioning of enterprise infrastructure components such as servers, networks, databases, storage, virtualization platforms, data centers, backup systems, and data extraction solutions.
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
- Requires Bachelor’s Degree
- Requires minimum of 7 years of experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
- Requires mastery of a specialty area and full knowledge of industry practices, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
NICE TO HAVE:
- Knowledge of database platforms such as Oracle and/or SQL Server, including system support and administration
- Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems
- Exposure to cybersecurity principles, access management, and audit readiness
- Experience supporting Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills in production-critical systems
- Experience supporting system upgrades, patches, and technology refresh initiatives
- Strong communication skills, including communication with employees, clients, upper management, and vendors
- Strong results orientation (driving to deadlines, financial targets, project goals, etc.)
- Lean Sigma/Six Sigma – DMAIC Methodology
- Ability to work collaboratively and partner with employees, leaders, clients, and vendors
- Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
- Strong decision-making skills
- Ability to work independently
- Excellent presentation skills including the ability to translate highly technical information into business terminology
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.
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
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