Senior Engineer, Manufacturing

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

• Collaborate with Quality Engineering to provide manufacturing support.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 2+ years of relevant experience - required
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering - required
• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, industrial or manufacturing engineering - preferred
• 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