Work Flexibility: Onsite

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.
• Self-directed initiators. People who take ownership of their work and need no prompting to drive productivity, change, and outcomes.
• 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 will do

As a Service Manufacturing Engineer, you will develop, evaluate, implement, and maintain repair/manufacturing process design, along with associated documentation, operation sequences and processes to repair components and/or finished devices with the intent to improve or reduce repair/manufacturing cycle times.

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
• Assess assigned area for improvements related to cycle time, required floor space, labor hours required, final testing acceptance rate, and rework reduction
• Establish manufacturing standards, monitoring actual plant performance and make proposals for improvement
• Strive for reliability and quality in our products, continuously searching for ways to enhance performance and meet all training and documentation criteria
• 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
• Perform process design calculations for new and existing processes
• 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 
• Provide regular updates on project progress to appropriate personnel, with the ability to plan, organize and implement many concurrent tasks

What you need

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

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.