Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Stryker’s Medical manufacturing facility is seeking to hire a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to support sustaining engineering efforts in Portage, Michigan.

WHO WE WANT:

• Collaborative partners. People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.

• Detail-oriented process improvers. Critical thinkers who naturally see opportunities to develop and optimize work processes – finding ways to simplify, standardize and automate.

• Analytical problem solvers. People who go beyond just fixing to identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions, and recommend comprehensive upgrades to prevent future issues.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Collaborate with Quality Engineering to provide manufacturing support.

• You will be responsible for providing manufacturing engineering support to specific projects including change analysis, risk analysis, and manufacturing readiness.

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues relating to the safety, efficacy, quality, cost, or delivery of components and finished devices.           

• Conduct qualification, verification, and validation activities to produce medical devices.

• You will be responsible for completing engineering work and contribute to new product development teams and product support, typically including the following activities: technology development, test of materials or products, preparation of specifications, six sigma, process studies, process improvements, and report preparation.

• Design, procure, and fabricate tooling and fixtures.

• Design, document, and improve manufacturing processes and operations that control the safety and efficacy of finished devices.

• Train, develop, and/or provide work direction to operators and technicians.

• Participate on cross-functional project teams. Coordinate, manage, and document project work and progress, and recommend appropriate revisions.

• Participate in design control efforts related to risk analysis (failure mode and effect analysis) & design reviews.

• You will interface with product builders or extrusion technicians, production supervisors, and engineers in troubleshooting problems on the production floor.

• Identify and implement process/product improvement alternatives to increase/optimize yield, efficiency, throughput, and/or performance.

• Design, develop, test, and validate equipment and processes; analyze and interpret process models and recommend process improvements.

WHAT YOU NEED:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering - required

• 2+ years of related experience - required

• Controls, PLC, SQL experience - preferred

• Manufacturing engineering in a FDA regulated environment - preferred

• Previous manufacturing experience including validations, process efficiencies, lean manufacturing and manufacturing services experience - preferred

• Ability to read, understand, engineering drawings on common engineering software - preferred

• Minitab, or similar, statistical software - preferred