Staff Product Safety Engineer

Stryker • Grand Rapids, MI

1d • $89,300 - $148,800 • Onsite

About The Position

This role involves leading Product Safety Programs for complex sustainability projects within Product Engineering. The engineer will ensure safety requirements are integrated throughout product development, collaborate with leadership on technical and organizational safety initiatives, and ensure regulatory compliance with U.S. and international electrical and mechanical safety standards, regulations, and certifications. The position also includes directing safety testing activities, collaborating with external certification bodies, providing technical education and mentorship to early-career engineers, promoting a strong safety culture, and offering strategic technical leadership to resolve complex safety challenges and shape future technology roadmaps.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or related Engineering degree
• 4+ years of engineering experience
• Prior experience leading Product Safety Programs for complex R&D projects, ensuring safety requirements are integrated throughout product development.

Nice To Haves

• Possess an understanding of IEC standards and understanding of compliance or related regulatory compliance standards.
• Viewed as a divisional resource in area of expertise.
• Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Competent with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.).
• Demonstrated competence and an intermediate level of expertise in product design theory and application as applied specifically to electrical hardware and architecture, microcontroller, microprocessor, wireless technologies, embedded systems but also familiarity with mechanical components and products.
• Work within and apply the following standards in the development of our products (not limited to the below standards): IEC 60601-1 (General Safety Requirements for Medical Electrical Equipment), IEC 60601-1-2 (EMC), IEC 60529 (Ingress Protection for Enclosures), IEC 61000 Series (EMC Testing Techniques), UL 746C (Polymeric Material Used In Electrical Equipment), (Audio/video, information and communication technology equipment - Part 1: Safety requirements), IEC 61010-1 (Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, control, and laboratory use - Part 1: General requirements ), ISO 17025 (General Requirements For The Competence Of Testing And Calibration Laboratories).

Responsibilities

• Lead Product Safety Programs for complex sustainability projects within Product Engineering, ensuring safety requirements are integrated throughout product development.
• Collaborate with leadership and influencing technical and organizational safety initiatives across business units.
• Ensure Regulatory Compliance with U.S. and international electrical and mechanical safety standards, regulations, and certifications.
• Direct Safety Testing Activities by supporting laboratory personnel, developing test plans, and ensuring compliance testing meets third-party certification requirements.
• Collaborate with External Certification Bodies including NRTLs and other organizations to achieve and maintain product certifications.
• Provide Product Safety technical education, mentorship, and frameworks that support the growth of early-career Product Safety Engineers.
• Promote a Strong Safety Culture by embedding product safety, compliance, and industry best practices across engineering and design teams.
• Provide Strategic Technical Leadership by resolving complex safety challenges, supporting product lifecycle activities, consulting on compliance issues, and shaping future technology roadmaps.

Benefits

• Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/V/D.
• Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior