Stryker-posted 3 months ago
Mid Level
Kalamazoo, MI
Miscellaneous Manufacturing

As a Senior Manufacturing Service Engineer, you will be responsible for developing, evaluating, implementing, and maintaining manufacturing methods, operational sequences, and processes to support product repair. You will adhere to quality and quantity standards, following directions and blueprints to ensure products meet specifications. Drawing on your expertise in manufacturing engineering, you will apply fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures independently, while also serving as a subject matter expert (SME) to others. Additionally, you will assess OEM versus third-party repairs, providing customers with clear justification on why OEM repairs are more robust.

  • Develop, evaluate, implement, and maintain manufacturing methods and processes to support product repair.
  • Adhere to quality and quantity standards, following directions and blueprints to ensure products meet specifications.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) in manufacturing engineering.
  • Assess OEM versus third-party repairs and provide justification for OEM repairs.
  • Provide day-to-day production support by participating in daily production team meetings.
  • Develop solutions to issues impacting area metrics and assess process and tooling design for feasibility.
  • Contribute to the training and ongoing involvement of operators and production supervisors in new and evolving processes.
  • Generate ideas for new repair processes and process optimizations and complete small capital projects.
  • Propose projects to improve throughput and product quality.
  • Estimate costs to analyze return on capital investments.
  • Assist in commissioning of new plant equipment and troubleshooting of existing processes.
  • Partner with global service operations, materials, product engineering, and other groups to solve manufacturing and process issues.
  • Improve manufacturing efficiency by analyzing and planning workflow, space requirements, and equipment layout.
  • Provide manufacturing decision-making information by calculating production, labor, and material costs; reviewing production schedules; estimating future requirements.
  • Assure product and process quality by designing testing methods and establishing standards.
  • Ensure the lowest cost method is utilized in processes, evaluating opportunities for ergonomic solutions.
  • Create, write, and modify work instruction procedures.
  • Perform equipment qualification validation projects.
  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
  • 2+ years of relevant experience
  • Previous manufacturing/production or industrial engineering experience
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Process improvement orientation
  • Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
  • Demonstrated ability to operate small hand tools and power tools
  • Experience with objective ergonomic assessing tools
  • Knowledge of Lean tools, waste identification, lead-time assessment, Kaizen, Kanban, and/or process and material flow
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