**Why engineering at Stryker?****:
At Stryker we are dedicated to improving lives, with a passion for researching and developing new medical device products. As an engineer at Stryker, you will be proud of the work that you will be doing, using cutting-edge technologies to make healthcare better. Here, you will work in a supportive culture with other incredibly talented and intelligent people, creating industry-leading medical technology products. You will also have growth opportunities as we have a culture that supports your personal and professional development.
**Who we want**
- ** Effective communicators**. People who collect and interpret information accurately and can concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders, senior management, and their teams.
- ** Talent developers.** Growth-oriented managers who recruit and hire top-performing talent and prioritize the development of their team members.
- **Managers who drive performance.** People who implement process improvements and leverage the talent of their team to consistently increase performance and productivity.
- ** Metrics-oriented managers**. People who consistently track key business analytics to ensure projects meet expectations and budget.
**What you will do**
Coordinates and oversees Manufacturing Engineering & Maintenance activities ensuring they meet applicable regulatory requirements and internal business requirements, and assuring they achieve the set goals of efficiency, effectiveness and compliance. Liaison with other Business and Functional Managers throughout the organization, to ensure activities are being properly planned, implemented, executed, and maintained, meeting their expectations.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Build and develop highly competent teams capable of executing to the strategic plan with deep technical skills, innovation ability, engineering know-how and core competencies
- Support with the development of the manufacturing and process engineering expertise through intentional selection, training and development of engineering talent.
- Deliver effective engineering solutions to drive Corrective and Preventive Action, Statistical Process Controls, Validations, Six Sigma and similar methodologies with full compliance to FDA QSR, ISO 13485, Corporate and Divisional procedures
- Partner with Supplier Quality, AO, Supply chain and Strategic Sourcing teams to develop close strategic collaboration with OEM's, component suppliers, manufacturing equipment, and technology partners to ensure optimum vendor selection, machine/component pricing, and servicing as well as supply chain design.
- Support Validation activities and work closely with Validation Systems engineers to keep process and equipment qualification processes up to the standards.
- Oversee the specification, purchase and qualification of capital equipment optimizing technological capabilities and return on investment.
- Provide effective support for daily production operations with heightened level of urgency; ensure that all products meet specifications, performance, quality, cost, yield and capacity targets.
- Provide training, training materials and operator support as required.
- Advocate for Safety and Environmental Excellency; Drive workplace ergonomics and facility layout design.
- Drive the achievement of excellence in project management.
- Communicates regular weekly updates on project status to senior management, project teams, stakeholders and sponsors. Ensure flawless delivery of all project commitments.
- Monitor and review of monthly departmental budgets and compilation of overall monthly capital and expense spend projections.
- Responsible for Manufacturing Engineering's & Maintenance departmental compliance with company policies and corrective actions
- Continuously strive to improve quality of products by recognizing opportunities for improvement and ideas
- Provide technical support to continuous improvement projects, process changes, and new product introduction projects.
- Identify opportunities, make recommendations, and implement improvements in operations performance to optimize product volume, yields, and quality in accordance with business needs, minimizing operating costs, and maximizing safety and reliability.
- Gather and evaluate appropriate data, utilizing statistical techniques, to improve process capability and/or identify root causes of problems, and implement improvement opportunities.
**What you will need**
- B.S. in Mechanical, Industrial, Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
- +10 years of working experience in a FDA regulated facility, preferably in medical devices.
- Excellent analytical, negotiation and interpersonal communication skills.
- Experience leading teams is required.
- Bilingual: English/Spanish.
- Knowledge in SAP.
- Demonstrated ability to implement qualified processes using applicable systems (Process Validation, Process Planning Tools, Design of experiments,