Associate Engineering Manager

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Portage, MI, 49002, US
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Work flexibility: Onsite Req ID: R554184 Employee type: Full Time Job category: Engineering Travel: 10% Relocation: No

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Job Summary:


Leads the design and development of new products from concept through launch, defining requirements, validating performance, and ensuring reliability, safety, and cost effectiveness. Oversees creation of CAD/CAE models, engineering drawings, product specifications, and testing/validation plans while partnering closely with manufacturing and cross-functional teams to optimize designs for production. This is a people-leader role responsible for managing a professional engineering team, setting direction, developing talent, and driving department results

What you will do:
 

  • Execute a robust talent offense by attracting, developing, retaining, and engaging top talent while driving personal/professional growth of individuals, the team and delivering high quality results with passion, energy and drive. 

  • Drive New Product Development strategy and process excellence into Electrical and Mechanical Engineering teams. 

  • Demonstrate a strong passion for discipline in work execution, ensuring strategic, process excellence, technical rigor, and continuous improvement. 

  • Identify and leverage cross business unit resources to meet project milestones and enhance delivery. 

  • Collaborate with the R&D leadership team on the creation and development of a NPD technical roadmap, building a skilled team to meet technical requirements and project milestones. 

  • Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to ensure alignment and support in achieving technical roadmap goals, with a focus on skillset development. 

  • Participate in cost center budget creation, projections, and tracking activities. 

  • Contribute and execute customer facing activities like Voice of Customer and customer centric design in partnership with internal and external stakeholders. 

  • Support a culture of diversity, inclusion, and belonging at a team level in hiring and staff development.

  • Lead projects and initiatives within the business unit, with responsibility for planning, budgeting, meeting project goals and adequately staffing with talent.

  • Support and mentor others in complex cooperative efforts across cross-functional teams, influencing one's own technical areas of expertise and building key relationships, to drive innovation and ensure achievement of business goals.


Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, or related discipline 

  • Minimum 6 years of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, quality engineering, or a combination of related experience 


Preferred Qualification:

  • People/project management experience

  • Talented performance coach who is skilled at providing actionable feedback to team members, setting clear performance objectives and managing team member performance.

  • General knowledge of the healthcare market and competitors.

  • Demonstrated ability to communicate plans and technical information to team members within a business unit.


 

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 and Orthopaedics 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.

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