Stryker Corporation

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

Job Description:

We are currently seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer, R&D – NPD to join our Orthopaedic Instruments team located in Portage, Michigan. This role is hybrid with the expectation to come into the office on average 4 days a week. 

WHO WE WANT:

• Analytical problem solvers. People who seek to identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions, and recommend comprehensive upgrades to prevent future issues.
• Dedicated achievers. Relentless about quality, people who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will passionately work to ensure a project and product satisfies customer needs and meets regulations and expectations.
• User-focused creators. People who imagine with the user in mind, developing technology that helps change patients’ lives.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

As the Senior Mechanical Engineer on our Stryker’s Orthopedic Instruments new product development team, you will be charged with applying sound engineering practices while designing new products and technologies used in surgery. Staying close to our customers and collecting valuable insights into product performance and features will be critical to success. You will have an active role in everything from brainstorming new concepts to commercialization and manufacturing scale-up.

Other responsibilities include:

• Research, design, develop, modify, and verify components/modules for medical devices
• Translate design inputs to engineering specifications and produce sub-system level designs
• Develop and analyze solutions, prototyping one or more options to provide proof of concept
• Apply fundamental and some advanced concepts, practices and procedures for problem solving
• Quickly process and assimilate procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology
• Work on complex problems, applying advanced experience and learnings
• Demonstrate advanced understanding of customer needs and design inputs
• Demonstrate proficiency with product’s intended use and clinical procedures
• Follow fundamental industry standards, design requirements and test strategies which apply to regulatory requirements
• Independently create or refine engineering documentation, such as the Design History file
• Follow R&D procedure like design controls and risk management, per the Quality Management System

WHAT YOU NEED:

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related
• 2+ years of work experience
• Experience with 3D CAD modeling (Creo Preferred)

Preferred:

• Experience working in a regulated industry

Travel Percentage: 10%

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.