Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Posted:
4/20/2026, 6:58:33 AM

Location(s):
Irvine, California, United States ⋅ California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Mechanical Engineering

Work Flexibility: Onsite

Senior Manufacturing Engineer will lead sustaining engineering activities to ensure safe, compliant, and efficient manufacturing of medical devices. This role will be responsible for driving continuous improvement, troubleshooting production issues, and supporting change management activities while ensuring adherence to internal quality system requirements. The role partners closely with Operations, Quality, R&D, and Suppliers to improve yield, optimize processes, and support product lifecycle objectives. Team member shall receive minimal supervision and is viewed as a subject matter expert.

What you will do:
 

  • Lead and execute process validation activities, IQ/OQ/PQ for manufacturing processes, equipment, and test methods to ensure continued compliance and product quality.
  • Develop, author, review, and approve validation protocols, reports, and supporting manufacturing documentation meeting internal quality system requirements.
  • Assess and implement revalidation strategies driven by process changes, non-conformances, CAPAs, production metrics trends or continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Troubleshoot manufacturing production and equipment issues related to existing establish processes and directly work with cross functional team members to implement corrective actions.
  • Directly support change management activities that will include performing risk assessments, impact on validated processes and products, equipment, and material changes.
  • Support and drive Quarantine Ticket (QT) and Non-conformance (NC) report dispositions and investigations.
  • Support Kaizen and continuous improvement events.
  • Participate in internal / external audits by providing validation expertise and provide general guidance on existing manufacturing processes.
  • Mentor entry to junior engineers and provide technical guidance.


Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, or related discipline.
  • Minimum 2 years of Catheter Medical Device experience.


Preferred Qualification:

  • Proficiency in SolidWorks for creating and modifying production released models and drawings.
  • Experienced in designing manufacturing fixtures, gauges, and test setups.
  • Understanding of design for manufacturing (DFM) principles to support yield improvements and manufacturing robustness.
  • Capable of performing tolerance analysis and stack-ups.

  

 

US15: $89,400 - $148,900 USD Annual

  

 

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.