Staff Engineer - Manufacturing

Stryker • Portage, MI

80d

About The Position

As a member of our manufacturing team, you will drive innovation and efficiency by developing, evaluating, and enhancing manufacturing methods. Leveraging your expertise in product design, tooling, equipment capabilities, fabrication processes, and assembly techniques, you'll help ensure our products are built to the highest standards of quality and performance. You'll play a hands-on role in implementing improvements that optimize safety, ergonomics, and quality control, all while ensuring processes and products meet design specifications and production goals. Join us and be part of a team that's making a real impact, helping Stryker deliver life-changing technology to healthcare professionals around the world.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or equivalent in related discipline, Mechanical Engineering preferred.
• 4+ years of relevant work experience.
• Strong understanding of GD&T and ability to review prints for DFM.

Responsibilities

• Identify and implement safety and ergonomic improvements as a first priority.
• Apply a strong understanding of GD&T concepts to interpret engineering drawings and ensure precision in manufacturing and quality control processes.
• Ensure assigned processes and process changes are compliant and documented in accordance with Stryker procedures and applicable regulations.
• Identify sources of waste in production and implement changes to drive cost, quality, and throughput improvements; support production associates in doing the same.
• Evaluate blueprints for part processing to ensure manufacturability.
• Partner with the materials group to drive inventory velocity.
• Support new product development and ensure smooth transitions into production.
• Coordinate new and existing machinery in the plant to ensure proper material flow and efficiency.
• Focus on customer satisfaction through teamwork and empowerment, solving problems through a consultative approach, operating with honesty and integrity, and providing a highly responsive and exceptional level of customer service.
• Work under general supervision, planning, conducting, and supervising assignments with appreciable latitude for independent action or decision.
• Direct the work of Engineers or Senior Engineers as needed.
• Serve as a departmental resource in area of expertise, developing system-level design, development, testing, and refinement.
• Demonstrate commitment to quality by striving for reliability and excellence in products, continuously seeking ways to enhance performance, and meeting all training and documentation requirements.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Miscellaneous Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree