Principal Maintenance Excellence Engineer - 12 month contract
- Salary
- €81.1K–€121.7KEUR
- Hiring from
- Ireland
- Work type
- Hybrid
- Posted
- Sep 30, 2026
Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
A Day in the Life
Job Description
Medtronic
At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.
Our Purpose
The Enterprise Maintenance Excellence (EMEx) function at Medtronic plc is part of the Operations Innovation (OI) Group and focuses on optimising the full equipment lifecycle - from development through to decommissioning - through standardised work and engineering excellence.
As part of this, EMEx is deploying a global Computerised Asset Management System (CAMS) and standardised Work Management Process to enable consistent maintenance practices, improve data quality, and support data-driven decision-making across the enterprise.
We are seeking a Principal Maintenance Work Management Engineer to support global CMMS deployment in EMEA and APAC Regions. This role will act as a senior maintenance process and system Subject Matter Expert (SME), working with sites to understand current maintenance practices, support adoption of the future-state model, and enable sustainable process and system adoption post go-live.
At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.
Come for a job, stay for a career!
A Day in The Life Of:
- Support Site Transitions:
Provide expertise to manufacturing sites transitioning from legacy CMMS systems to the Enterprise CAMS platform, supporting adoption of standardised maintenance work management processes. - Current-State Discovery:
Engage with site teams to assess existing maintenance practices, including work identification, planning, scheduling, execution, and close-out, identifying gaps to the future-state model. - Future-State Enablement:
Support sites in understanding the global maintenance work management process, including changes to roles, responsibilities, and expected behaviours across maintenance teams. - CMMS SME Support:
Confidently navigate and demonstrate the CMMS to support deployment activities, translating system functionality into practical, real-world maintenance use cases. - Stakeholder Engagement:
Work closely with maintenance, engineering, operations, and leadership teams to communicate what is changing, why it matters, and how to support successful adoption. - Data Migration Support:
Collaborate with global program teams and site stakeholders to support data migration activities, providing maintenance context for asset structures, maintenance plans, and master data. - Training Reinforcement:
Partner with system training teams to reinforce key concepts through practical examples, process walkthroughs, and on-site engagement. - Hypercare Support:
Support post-go-live activities, including issue triage, adoption coaching, and reinforcement of standardised processes and system usage. - Cross-Functional Collaboration:
Work closely with PMO, Change Management, Data Migration, QMS, Training, and IT teams to support successful deployment and resolve site-specific challenges. - Continuous Improvement:
Identify opportunities to improve deployment approaches, strengthen adoption, and capture lessons learned for future deployment waves.
Travel: Up to 25%
Key Skills & Experience
Must Haves
• Minimum NFQ Level 8 Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience in Maintenance, Engineering, Reliability, or related discipline
OR advanced degree and 5+ years of relevant experience
• Strong experience in maintenance work management processes (planning, scheduling, execution, close-out)
• Practical experience working with CMMS or Enterprise Asset Management systems
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Experience working in cross-functional, project-driven environments
Nice to Have
• Experience supporting CMMS or asset management system deployments or transformations
• Familiarity with systems such as eMaint, Maximo, SAP PM, Infor EAM, or similar
• Experience in regulated manufacturing environments
• Understanding of maintenance-related QMS requirements
• Experience supporting data migration or master data validation
• Familiarity with change management principles
• Experience supporting hypercare, go-live, or user adoption activities
• Exposure to Lean, reliability excellence, or continuous improvement initiatives
Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package
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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.
Who We Are
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.
What We Do
We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.
We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.
This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…
Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world
Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities
Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning
How We Are Different
These commitments set our team apart from the rest:
Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.
Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.
Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.
Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care
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