Work Flexibility: Hybrid

What you will do:

As a Senior Packaging Engineer, you will collaborate with both the NPD and Sustaining teams to design, manage, improve, and maintenance of sterile and non-sterile packaging. You will be responsible for designing and implementing new or revised packaging for medical devices, developing and issuing detailed specifications for procurement of packaging components, and ensuring the integrity of the packaging design through comprehensive testing following industry standards. 

• Independently research, design, and develop packaging components, modules, and sub-systems for medical devices, ensuring quality and effectiveness.

• Oversee sterile and non-sterile packaging from initial design through protocol writing, execution, and test report authoring, collaborating with internal teams and external partners.

• Translate user needs into packaging design specifications and work with cross-functional teams to incorporate customer inputs.

• Drive packaging design changes for enhanced product quality, environmental sustainability, and cost efficiency.

• Ensure packaging validation work instructions comply with industry standards, FDA requirements, and internal protocols.

• Perform root cause analysis and own packaging-related non-conformities (NCs) and corrective actions (CAPAs).

• Work with teams in quality, manufacturing, regulatory, and marketing to ensure project success and participate in interdepartmental meetings and trainings.

• Provide guidance on packaging design and testing, evaluate packaging tooling and equipment, and maintain packaging prints.

What you need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Packaging Engineering/Packaging Science (preferred), Mechanical Engineering, Material Science, or Biomedical Engineering

• 3+ years of relevant industry experience: Medical or regulated industry

• Demonstrated technical ability with SolidWorks (or similar CAD software)

• Packaging and design engineering experience

• Understanding of ASTM International packaging standards and test methods, ISO 11607 packaging standards for sterile medical devices and ISO2233 packaging conditions standard

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.