Senior Research and Development; R&D Technician – 1st Shift

Senior Research and Development (R&D) Technician – 1st Shift – Starting at $32.22/hr

Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm

Overtime may be required to support business needs

As a Senior Research and Development (R&D) Technician, you will provide technical support on a variety of products for Stryker Inari. In this position, you will work independently and with project teams, technicians, engineers, and scientists in the development and analysis of products, materials, processes, or equipment.

• Assist engineers in developing work instructions and assist in validating new processes
• Act as a technical leader and lead cross-functional training for new processes, materials, test methods and prototypes
• Analyze data, calculate statistics, and provide input to product test reports
• Actively participate in project team meetings; coordinating and monitoring project task execution and project progress against deliverables
• Identify and acquire necessary supplies, materials, equipment, and tools for specific projects, interacting with vendors as necessary
• Become experts on use of complex test equipment, train staff on its operations, and confirm required calibration or preventative maintenance
• Build quality into all aspects of work by maintaining compliance with all quality requirements
• Use sound technical judgment in making independent decisions
• Ensure products are tested to the most current/validated method/process and specification and that documentation is correctly completed per Good Documentation Practices (GDP) and Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) to adhere to quality standards

• High School Diploma or GED/equivalent
• At least 3 years of related technical experience
• Experience working in a clean‑room setting or building with catheter‑based technologies
• Experience utilizing Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Teams, Word and Excel)
• Ability to lift, push, pull and carry up to 35 pounds

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree with focus in engineering or a technical science
• 5 or more years of experience working with prototyping or research and development
• Direct experience utilizing test or measurement equipment (e.g., calipers, oscilloscopes, and multimeters)
• Experience with coiling/braiding, welding and/or soldering of small‑scale items

$32.22–44.57 per hour plus bonus eligible + benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors. Pay rate will not be below any applicable local minimum wage rates.

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 Med Surg, 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.