Senior Manufacturing Service Engineer

Posted:
9/18/2025, 4:42:21 AM

Location(s):
Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States ⋅ Michigan, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Mechanical Engineering

Work Flexibility: Onsite

What you will do:

As a Senior Manufacturing Service Engineer, you will be responsible for developing, evaluating, implementing, and maintaining manufacturing methods, operational sequences, and processes to support product repair. You will adhere to quality and quantity standards, following directions and blueprints to ensure products meet specifications. Drawing on your expertise in manufacturing engineering, you will apply fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures independently, while also serving as a subject matter expert (SME) to others. Additionally, you will assess OEM versus third-party repairs, providing customers with clear justification on why OEM repairs are more robust.

Additional responsibilities:

  • Provide day-to-day production support by participating in daily production team meetings, developing solutions to issues impacting area metrics and assessing process and tooling design for feasibility
  • Contribute/participate in the training and ongoing involvement of operators, production supervisors and others as required, particularly in new and evolving/modified processes
  • Generate ideas for new repair processes and/or process optimizations and complete small capital projects
  • Propose projects to improve throughput and product quality
  • Estimate cost to analyze return on capital investments
  • Assist in commissioning of new plant equipment and in troubleshooting of existing processes
  • Partner with global service operations, materials, product engineering and other groups to solve manufacturing and process issues to drive customer satisfaction 
  • Improve manufacturing efficiency by analyzing and planning work flow, space requirements, and equipment layout  
  • Provide manufacturing decision-making information by calculating production, labor, and material costs; review production schedules; estimate future requirements  
  • Assure product and process quality by designing testing methods; testing finished- product and process capabilities; establishing standards; confirming manufacturing processes  
  • Ensure lowest cost method is utilized in process (i.e. manual labor v. automation)  
  • Evaluate opportunities for Ergonomic solutions  
  • Create, write, and modify work instruction procedures  
  • Perform equipment qualification validation projects  

What You Need:

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
  • 2+ years of relevant experience
     

Preferred Skills:

  • Previous manufacturing/production or industrial engineering experience
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, process improvement orientation and the ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
  • Demonstrated ability to operate small hand tools (e.g. pliers, screwdrivers, wrenches, hammer, etc.), power tools and test/inspection equipment
  • Experience with objective ergonomic assessing tools similar to Humantech MMH calculator
  • Knowledge of Lean tools, waste identification, lead-time assessment, Kaizen, Kanban and/or process and material flow

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.

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