Senior Designer - CAD

Stryker Corporation; Portage (MI); Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Stryker Corporation is seeking a Senior CAD Designer to transform engineering concepts into detailed designs, drawings, fixtures, and equipment for Portage, MI product development and manufacturing processes.

You will collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure designs meet functionality, durability, and manufacturability requirements, while maintaining strict document control and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Associate degree in Engineering Graphics, Engineering Technology, Manufacturing Technology, or related technical discipline; or technical certification with minimum 10 years of relevant experience.
• Minimum 4 years of CAD or engineering design software experience.
• Experience creating and maintaining engineering drawings, models, and technical documentation.
• Experience utilizing CAD software for mechanical, electrical, or product design applications.

Responsibilities

• Create and revise layouts, engineering drawings, fixtures, and equipment designs using CAD and related design software.
• Translate engineering specifications and design inputs into detailed models and documentation that support manufacturing and quality requirements.
• Review engineering drawings and supporting documentation to verify compliance with company standards and industry requirements.
• Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams to evaluate designs for functionality, durability, integrity, and manufacturability.
• Analyze technical documentation and resolve design details not fully defined within specifications.
• Submit engineering drawings and associated documentation through established document control and approval processes.
• Coordinate with suppliers to support component, tooling, and system acceptance activities.
• Contribute to prototype assembly, testing, design analysis, process improvements, and training of team members on design-related topics.

Skills

CAD experience

Engineering drawings

Documentation

Design collaboration

Education

Associate degree in Engineering Graphics/Engineering Technology/Manufacturing Technology

Bachelor of Science in Engineering Graphics (preferred)

Tools

Creo CAD

CAD software

Job description

Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite Senior Designer - CAD Portage, MI

Join a team focused on transforming engineering concepts into detailed designs, drawings, fixtures, and equipment that support product development and manufacturing. In this role, you will work closely with engineering and manufacturing teams to create and maintain design documentation, ensuring compliance with quality standards, regulatory requirements, and manufacturability expectations.

What You Will Do

• Create and revise layouts, engineering drawings, fixtures, and equipment designs using CAD and related design software.
• Translate engineering specifications and design inputs into detailed models and documentation that support manufacturing and quality requirements.
• Review engineering drawings and supporting documentation to verify compliance with company standards and industry requirements.
• Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams to evaluate designs for functionality, durability, integrity, and manufacturability.
• Analyze technical documentation and resolve design details not fully defined within specifications.
• Submit engineering drawings and associated documentation through established document control and approval processes.
• Coordinate with suppliers to support component, tooling, and system acceptance activities.
• Contribute to prototype assembly, testing, design analysis, process improvements, and training of team members on design-related topics.

What You Will Need

• Required Qualifications Associate degree in Engineering Graphics, Engineering Technology, Manufacturing Technology, or a related technical discipline; or technical certification with minimum 10 years of relevant experience
• Minimum 4 years of CAD or engineering design software experience.
• Experience creating and maintaining engineering drawings, models, and technical documentation.
• Experience utilizing CAD software for mechanical, electrical, or product design applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Graphics or a related engineering discipline.
• Experience using Creo CAD software.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, tooling, fixture, or equipment design projects.
• Experience working within regulated quality systems and document control processes.

$72,500 - $120,900 USD Annual Travel Percentage: 0%

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!

For more information, visit: www.stryker.com

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.