Associate Manufacturing Engineer, Medtronic

I'm Brianna Hardy. I'm an associate manufacturing engineer at Medtronic. Yeah, so Medtronic is a company that produces medical devices. They have a wide range of devices from stints, pacemakers, diabetes monitors, as well as even some neuromodulation devices so all sorts of things. My role at the company is to help support the product line, so I get assigned certain products that I help support. So if there's issues on the floor with equipment or different materials that come in, and there's questions, I have to go and help answer them, do a lot of problem solving. I also work on different projects, so long term and short term projects such as like new equipment, implementing that, doing the FDA regulation kind of side of it. I also work on helping with other projects in our site. So we do a lot of cross-functional work as well so. Some potential issues that a product could have is something like a piece of equipment breaks or basically dies and we don't have the spare parts to fix it. So then we have to figure out how we can get the parts in a timely manner to get production back up and running. Another sort of problem that we deal with a lot is materials will come in and they might be out of spec per our drawings that we have. So then we have to determine, what are we going to do with those products? Are we going to be able to use them still? Or are they unusable and we have to return them to the vendor? We also have to consider, is this going to shut our line down? Do we need these parts now? So there are a lot of different factors that go into all the different projects and things that happen, so. I also do a lot with documentation side of it, too. So looking at, is everything documented correctly? Do we have all the documents that we need? Is this going to be some sort of submission to like FDA or outside to the country like notified bodies that we use? Or is this just something that we simply just put in an annual report and we don't have to worry about it? So.