• Job Description

  Req#: R504084
  Work Flexibility: Onsite

  What you will do

  As the Manufacturing Engineer in San Jose, CA you will focus on sustaining existing processes, increasing capacity, reducing scrap, improving safety, and implementing process improvements in a medical device manufacturing environment.

  Additional responsibilities:

  • Sustain existing manufacturing lines, specifically the maintenance of manufacturing fixtures and equipment
  • Ensure manufacturing processes run consistently and meet performance targets by reducing costs, maximizing efficiency, and minimizing manufacturing loss
  • Improve manufacturing processes by leveraging lean principles, good manufacturing practices and six sigma methodologies to reduce costs through the elimination of waste in the value stream
  • Lead engineering projects and track project progress, present periodic status updates to key stakeholders and works to resolve obstacles
  • Design and build fixtures, equipment and tools as needed to increase efficiency, ergonomics, safety and quality
  • Collaborate with other engineers to analyze manufacturing/assembly issues and identify, test and implement the most effective solutions in a timely manner
  • Conduct equipment and process validations, qualifications and verifications
  • Drive process change by initiating, executing and reviewing Engineering Change Orders
  • Foster an environment of continuous improvement and provide support to internal customers in a variety of functional areas
  • Collaborate with a cross functional teams to transfer new products into production by providing recommendations regarding product design, assembly techniques and manufacturing processes

  Who we want

  • Detail-oriented process improvers . Critical thinkers who naturally see opportunities to develop and optimize work processes – finding ways to simplify, standardize and automate.
  • Collaborative partners . People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, data and insights to drive continuous improvement in functions.
  • Dedicated achievers . People who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure a project is complete and meets regulations and expectations.

  What you need

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering required, preference of concentration in mechanical, electrical, industrial, or biomedical engineering
  • Mechanical/electrical problem-solving skills required
  • Relevant experience – highly preferred
  • Proven ability to handle multiple projects and meet deadlines -highly preferred
  • Experience with continuous process improvement and applying lean manufacturing techniques - preferred
  • Medical device of other highly regulated industry experience - preferred
  • CAD experience (CREO, SolidWorks) - preferred
  • Automation experience - preferred
  • LabVIEW and/or TestStand experience - preferred

  85-130k salary plus bonus eligible + Benefits (Health, Vision, Dental, 401K, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, Wellbeing Program, Employee Stock Purchase Program). This information reflects the anticipated salary range for this position based on current national data. Actual minimum and maximum may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

  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.

• About the company

  Stryker Corporation is an American multinational medical technologies firm based in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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