Senior Staff Engineer – Advanced Operations

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Job description

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Stryker Medical’s Advanced Operations team plays a key role in bringing new products into manufacturing. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will provide process engineering leadership during design transfer, equipment implementation, and process development activities, partnering across engineering, quality, manufacturing, and regulatory teams to support successful product launches in a regulated environment.

What You Will Do

• Lead process engineering activities for new product introductions, ensuring manufacturing readiness and compliance with design transfer requirements.
• Develop and implement manufacturing processes, methods, and controls that meet product quality, cost, and schedule objectives.
• Create and support process risk assessments, control plans, manufacturing procedures, and production validation activities for new product launches.
• Evaluate, select, procure, install, and validate manufacturing equipment and capital assets to support production requirements.
• Analyze process and equipment performance through testing, data collection, measurement system analysis, and experimental studies to optimize manufacturing outcomes.
• Develop inspection methods, test protocols, and manufacturing controls to ensure products meet defined specifications and regulatory requirements.
• Provide technical guidance on manufacturing standards, design requirements, testing strategies, and regulatory expectations while mentoring engineers and project teams.
• Partner with Research & Development, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory Affairs, Marketing, and Project Management teams to resolve technical challenges and achieve project milestones.

What You Will Need

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in process engineering, manufacturing engineering, advanced operations, or a related technical field.
• Experience interpreting system drawings involving mechanical, electrical, and software interactions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in an FDA-regulated industry or other highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• Experience reading and interpreting engineering drawings, including geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).
• Certification(s) in Project Management, LEAN, Six Sigma, Operational Excellence, and/or related.

$102,600 - $171,000 USD Annual

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.