Senior Engineer, Manufacturing

Stryker’s Medical manufacturing facility is seeking to hire a Manufacturing Engineer to support sustaining engineering efforts in Portage, Michigan.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Collaborate with Quality Engineering to provide manufacturing support.
• Responsible for providing manufacturing engineering support to specific projects including change analysis, risk analysis, and manufacturing readiness.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues relating to the safety, efficacy, quality, cost, or delivery of components and finished devices.
• Conduct qualification, verification, and validation activities to produce medical devices.
• Responsible for completing engineering work and contribute to new product development teams and product support, typically including the following activities: technology development, test of materials or products, preparation of specifications, six sigma, process studies, process improvements, and report preparation.
• Design, procure, and fabricate tooling and fixtures.
• Design, document, and improve manufacturing processes and operations that control the safety and efficacy of finished devices.
• Train, develop, and/or provide work direction to operators and technicians.
• Participate on cross-functional project teams. Coordinate, manage, and document project work and progress, and recommend appropriate revisions.
• Participate in design control efforts related to risk analysis (failure mode and effect analysis) & design reviews.
• Interface with product builders or extrusion technicians, production supervisors, and engineers in troubleshooting problems on the production floor.
• Identify and implement process/product improvement alternatives to increase/optimize yield, efficiency, throughput, and/or performance.
• Design, develop, test, and validate equipment and processes; analyze and interpret process models and recommend process improvements.

WHAT YOU NEED:

• 2+ years of relevant experience - required
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering - required
• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, industrial or manufacturing engineering - preferred
• Controls, PLC, SQL experience - preferred
• Manufacturing engineering in a FDA regulated environment - preferred
• Previous manufacturing experience including validations, process efficiencies, lean manufacturing and manufacturing services experience - preferred
• Ability to read, understand, engineering drawings on common engineering software - preferred
• Minitab, or similar, statistical software - preferred

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.