Staff Quality Engineer

About the role

As a Staff Quality Engineer in Kalamazoo MI, you will provide quality engineering support for quality deliverables related to new product launches and manufacturing transfers for Surgical Technologies. This includes supporting projects throughout the full lifecycle, as well as post-handoff manufacturing sustainment activities, with a focus on quality assurance, process control, risk prevention, and continuous improvement of products and manufacturing processes. Additionally, you will support supplier quality issues that impact projects, lead initiatives to enhance product and process quality, and ensure compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and quality standards. 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

• Support quality deliverables for new product launches, manufacturing transfers, supplier changes, and engineering change initiatives.
• Partner with operations, engineering, supplier, and quality teams to ensure product and process quality performance.
• Own nonconformance investigations and drive timely containment, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and record closure.
• Lead and support Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) activities, including investigation, implementation, and effectiveness verification.
• Review and disposition nonconforming materials while supporting material review and quality decision-making processes.
• Execute Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) activities and support manufacturing readiness for product and process changes.
• Support process validation, equipment qualification, measurement system analysis (MSA), and risk management activities.
• Monitor quality metrics, analyze trends using statistical methods and process control tools, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, or a related technical field
• Minimum 4 years of experience in quality engineering, manufacturing quality, supplier quality, or a related quality-focused engineering role
• Experience leading or supporting cross-functional quality projects, including new product launches, manufacturing transfers, process improvements, or engineering change initiatives in a regulated environment

Qualifications

• Experience with quality systems, including nonconformance management, CAPA, audits, and risk management
• Experience supporting process validation, equipment qualification, PPAP, and measurement system analysis (MSA)
• Familiarity with