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Job description
As the Advanced Operations & Manufacturing Engineering Manager for New Technology & Product Introduction, you will lead a team responsible for transitioning new medical devices from design to full-scale production and sustaining the technology post-launch. You will work across multiple Stryker sites and collaborate with R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and Operations to ensure manufacturability, scalability, compliance, and on-time delivery of high-quality products.
What you will do:
Leadership & Talent Development:
- Attract, develop, retain, and engage top engineering talent; drive professional growth and high performance.
- Provide coaching and actionable feedback; set clear performance objectives.
- Promote a culture of diversity, inclusion, belonging, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
- Distill department strategy into objectives for direct reports.
Project & Program Leadership:
- Lead high-complexity NPI projects, including planning, budgeting, timelines, resourcing, and risk management.
- Make independent decisions on program-level issues and remove barriers to execution.
- Communicate project status, risks, and mitigation plans to senior leadership.
- Partner with R&D to influence design decisions that improve manufacturability and cost.
Technical Execution & Manufacturing Readiness:
- Oversee engineering deliverables for new technology and product introduction programs.
- Ensure project milestones are met on time, within budget, and to quality standards.
- Lead development and optimization of manufacturing processes, tooling, and equipment.
- Ensure robust process capability, scalability, and readiness for volume production.
- Drive Design for Manufacturability (DFM), risk assessments, and process validation (IQ/OQ/PQ).
- Implement and promote lean manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies.
- Collaborate with Quality, Regulatory, and Advanced Technology to ensure compliance with FDA, ISO, and internal standards.
- Identify and implement NPI best practices across programs.
Med Device Compliance:
- Lead cross-functional teams in launching new technologies and products that meet all regulatory requirements.
- Provide direction on design controls for new and existing processes/products.
- Review and approve (or delegate) program- and project-specific documentation and technical deliverables.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Materials Science background strongly preferred)
- 8+ years relevant experience
- 3+ years people management experience
- Proven new product introduction experience in a regulated industry (medical device preferred)
- Strong knowledge of DFM, process validation, and quality systems (FDA, ISO 13485)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with investment casting or metal injection molding
- Strong performance coach and talent developer
- Experience executing performance and talent management strategies
- Ability to communicate complex plans and technical information to senior leadership
- Track record of delivering programs on time, on quality, and on budget
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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