Intern High School

Job description

Medtronic Overview

Together Medtronic and Covidien are working to improve how healthcare addresses the needs of more people, in more ways and in more places around the world. As one company, we can accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. This is the ideal opportunity to join us, and be part of our commitment to the health of others.

We know the combined resources of Medtronic and Covidien will be transformative, creating new methodologies and new opportunities. Whatever your specialty or ambitions, you can make a difference at Medtronic – both in the lives of others and your career.

Medtronic is a $27.8b company with 85,000+ employees in more than 160 countries.

Position Description

As a participant in Medtronic's High School Diversity Internship Program each student will gain a better understanding of Medtronic, career paths they could explore in the STEM focus areas, and gain valuable work experience, and being to build their resume for college.

Position Responsibilities

The role this person will have will be to support Continuous Improvement Processes at our Manufacturing site. In this role the intern will:
• May assist with conducting time studies, some engineering/design of fixtures, and problem solving opportunities.
• May support other Continuous Improvement Processes projects as needed or determined by Manager/Supervisor.
• Support the team they are on with several responsibilities as determined by the supervisor or managers, including project administration, data entry, and special project assignments.
• Handle confidential, proprietary, and electronic information in a professional manner.
• Complete and present an internship experience overview for leadership at end of the summer program.
• Shadow and/or interview leaders to learn their path to current careers.
• Adhere to Medtronic policies, procedures, and business conduct standards.

Physical Job Requirements

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 function of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 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.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

Desired profile

Basic Qualifications

Basic Qualifications :
• Age 16 or older by June 1, 2015
• 3.0 GPA or higher
• Experience with Microsoft Office (MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, etc).
• Experience with working on the internet.
• Participating in one of Medtronic's corporate strategic partnerships: Black Data Base Processsors Association (BDPA), Cristo Rey, Wallin Education Partners, or BrandLab.
• Prescreened by corporate strategic partner as a viable candidate.

Desired/Preferred Qualifications

• Matlab experience
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Dependable, self-starter who can work in a professional environment
• Prior work experience
• Enthusiastic about learning