Electrical Design Engineer - Sustainment

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  • Portage, MI, 49002, US
  • United States of America-Michigan-Grand Rapids
  • United States of America-Michigan-Kalamazoo
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Work flexiblity: Hybrid Req ID: R530424 Employee type: Full Time Job category: Engineering Travel: 10% Relocation: Yes

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In this role as a Design Engineer – Electrical Sustainment, you will work with other product engineers, R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing, and Project Management to ensure project success. With coaching and mentorship, you will develop, modify, evaluate, and verify electronic components for medical devices. This is a unique opportunity to learn all areas of Stryker and to work with a variety of products. The project timeline is fast paced, and you will work to both solve problems and create efficiencies within the Stryker Instruments product lines.

What You Will Do

Technical Responsibilities:

  • You will perform root cause analysis and implement changes to electrical components for medical devices.

  • You will apply circuit and electrical system test methods.

  • You will assist with failure analysis and bench testing.

  • You will support problem solving, identify potential solutions, and evaluate them against requirements.

Business Responsibilities:

  • You will seek to understand customer needs and how design inputs change as the industry grows.

  • You will understand the product’s intended use and clinical procedures.

Med Device Compliance:

  • You will understand fundamental industry standards, design requirements and test strategies which align with regulatory requirements.

  • With supervision, you will update, create, and refine engineering documentation, such as the Design History file per company design control procedures.

  • You will learn R&D procedures like design controls and risk management, per the Quality Management System.

General Responsibilities:

  • Work cooperatively with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing and Project Management to ensure continued success of Instruments product lines in the field.

  • Learn procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology required.

  • Work on problems in limited scope; purposefully learn while gaining experience.

  • Demonstrate ownership and integrity of work.

  • Build stable relationships.

What You Need

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline required.

  • 0+ years of work experience required.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Prior internship in a fast-paced, regulated industry.

  • Demonstrated ability to work with and lead a cross-functional team.

  • Knowledge of analysis tools and statistical methods.

  • Understands the basic theory and methods of component selection and can apply them under supervision.

  • Understanding of different component parameters and their technical significance.

  • Ability to find alternative components by performing parametric comparison with existing component.

  • Proficiency in circuit schematics with ability to run electrical simulations to propose right alternates.

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. Apply Now