Engineering Manager, Advanced Operations (Hybrid)

Stryker Corporation; Arroyo (PR); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker Corporation in Puerto Rico seeks an Engineering Manager, Advanced Operations, to lead engineering teams and manage complex programs that support the design, validation, and introduction of medical device products.

The role combines people leadership, technical oversight, project execution, and financial accountability, with cross-functional collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, R&D, and business teams and hybrid work flexibility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field.
• Minimum 8 years of applicable professional experience.
• Minimum 2 years of direct people management experience.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Experience delivering projects or programs against defined timelines, quality requirements, and budgets.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop engineering teams by defining responsibilities, managing performance, supporting talent development, and planning future team capabilities.
• Direct complex engineering projects and programs, managing scope, timelines, budgets, staffing, technical requirements, quality, and project deliverables.
• Guide teams through technical, business, and operational challenges using structured problem-solving and process improvement methodologies.
• Drive design, testing, integration, product specifications, and process validation activities for new products and manufacturing processes.
• Manage project and team financials, including budget development, forecasting, resource planning, and ongoing spending oversight.
• Ensure engineering projects and programs comply with applicable medical device regulatory and quality requirements.
• Collaborate with manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers, product specialists, senior leaders, customers, and key opinion leaders to align technical, clinical, and business requirements.
• Make project, program, and portfolio-level decisions while monitoring delivery against defined timelines, quality requirements, budgets, and business objectives.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Job description

Work Flexibility: Hybrid Join Stryker as an Engineering Manager, Advanced Operations, leading engineering teams and complex programs that support the design, validation, and introduction of medical device products. This role combines people leadership, technical oversight, project execution, financial accountability, and cross-functional collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, R&D, and business teams.

What you will do

• Lead and develop engineering teams by defining responsibilities, managing performance, supporting talent development, and planning future team capabilities.
• Direct complex engineering projects and programs, managing scope, timelines, budgets, staffing, technical requirements, quality, and project deliverables.
• Guide teams through technical, business, and operational challenges using structured problem-solving and process improvement methodologies.
• Drive design, testing, integration, product specifications, and process validation activities for new products and manufacturing processes.
• Manage project and team financials, including budget development, forecasting, resource planning, and ongoing spending oversight.
• Ensure engineering projects and programs comply with applicable medical device regulatory and quality requirements.
• Collaborate with manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers, product specialists, senior leaders, customers, and key opinion leaders to align technical, clinical, and business requirements.
• Make project, program, and portfolio-level decisions while monitoring delivery against defined timelines, quality requirements, budgets, and business objectives.

What You Will Need

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field.
• Minimum 8 years of applicable professional experience.
• Minimum 2 years of direct people management experience.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Experience delivering projects or programs against defined timelines, quality requirements, and budgets.

Preferred

• Experience executing talent and performance management strategies.
• Experience with product design, testing, process validation, or design for manufacturability.
• Experience in the medical device industry and/or automation process.

Puerto Rico: $102,600 - $171,000 USD Annual Travel Percentage: 20%

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.

Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. We are proud to be named one of the World’s Best Workplaces!

Work Flexibility

• Remote – Role allows you to work the majority to 100% of time from an alternate workplace. These roles could have travel expectations, and you must work within the country of the job requisition location.
• Field-based – You can expect to regularly work a majority to 100% of time at customer facilities and has a set territory or expectation to travel within a set boundary. Almost all sales roles would likely be qualified as field-based.
• Onsite – Role is 100% located at a Stryker facility. Some ad hoc flexibility may be available depending on role, level, and job requirements. Manufacturing roles and any role that requires physical presence at the office would qualify under this category.
• Hybrid – You can expect to regularly work in both an alternate workplace and a Stryker facility. Roles that are partially remote or co-located would qualify as hybrid, and the expectation to be onsite would be defined and agreed upon by your manager/supervisor.