Staff Engineer - Manufacturing Engineering
About the role
Join a manufacturing engineering team focused on advancing process performance, equipment optimization, and product quality within a regulated production environment. As a Staff Engineer, Manufacturing, you will provide technical leadership for manufacturing processes, validation activities, CNC machining operations, and continuous improvement initiatives while serving as a subject matter expert in your assigned area. This role partners closely with production, quality, suppliers, and engineering teams to support compliant, efficient, and scalable manufacturing operations. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.
Responsibilities
- Lead manufacturing engineering projects, equipment qualifications, and process validation activities while ensuring compliance with quality and regulatory requirements.
- Develop, optimize, and troubleshoot manufacturing processes, including CNC machining operations, to improve efficiency, quality, and cost performance.
- Generate, review, and approve validation documentation, technical reports, process studies, and engineering change records in accordance with established procedures.
- Collaborate with quality and operations teams to investigate manufacturing issues, support nonconformance and corrective action activities, perform risk assessments, and implement process improvements.
- Provide technical training and subject matter expertise for production personnel, standardize manufacturing best practices, and lead Lean continuous improvement initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science (Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial, Electrical, Production Engineering, or related discipline).
- Minimum 4 years of experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Minimum 4 years of CNC programming and manufacturing experience.
- Experience with CNC machining processes including CNC turning, multi-axis machining, Swiss machining, or 5-axis milling.
- Experience with CAM software such as Mastercam, FeatureCAM, Esprit, or equivalent.
- Experience with CAD software such as Creo, NX, SolidWorks, Autodesk, or equivalent.
- Experience with process validation, verification activities, and production process troubleshooting in a regulated manufacturing environment.
- Proficiency in Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
Qualifications
- Lean Certification.
- Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certification.
- Experience supporting CNC machine controls or programming platforms such as Mazatrol, Fanuc, or similar systems.
- Experience leading capital equipment implementation, installation, and validation projects.
Skills
CNC programming, CNC machining (turning, multi-axis, Swiss, 5‑axis milling), CAM software (Mastercam, FeatureCAM, Esprit), CAD software (Creo, NX, SolidWorks, Autodesk), GD&T, process validation, troubleshooting, Lean, Six Sigma.
Benefits
- Health benefits: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program.
- Financial benefits: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short‑term disability insurance.
Pay
$89,300 - $148,800 USD Annual