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A Day in the Life

Medtronic is hiring a Principal Microbiologist responsible for formulating, delivering and managing projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results, eventually acting as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower-level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering R&D, systems or initiatives related to new technologies or therapies – from design to implementation - while adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills.

In the role, you are a recognized expert managing large projects or processes. Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables of assignments, with limited oversight from manager, who contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results, eventually being able to manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Identifies and validates molecular targets that play a key role in a particular disease process.
• Studies origin, relationship, development, anatomy, functions, and chemical processes of living organisms; this may include studies in the growth, structure, and development of bacteria and other microorganisms.
• Conducts research to determine the effects of materials such as nutrients, drugs, serums, hormones, and other substances on tissues and vital processes of living organisms.
• Analyzes materials to determine their toxic or nontoxic properties, binding and efficacy.
• Isolates or purifies analyses, and identifies hormones, minerals, proteins, and/or cultures of microorganisms to determine their biological properties.
• Examines chemical aspects of formation of antibodies and conducts research into chemistry of cells and cell division.
• May identify and produce small quantities of new drugs, pharmaceutical compounds and/or nutrients.

Required knowledge and experience

• Master’sBachelor’s degree in Microbiology, Biology, or similar Biological Science
• 7 years of experience in Sterilization validation
• Fluency in both English and French
• Experience in Ethylene Oxide and radiation sterilization
• Excellent organizational skills aimed at working in a fast-moving, manufacturing environment with high pressure
• Excellent communication skills aimed at technical consulting, international and trans-Atlantic stakeholder management
• Experience in bioburden testing, endotoxin testing, and environmental monitoring

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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.

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.

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