Staff Design Quality Engineer (Mechanical)

Stryker; Wisconsin; On-site; USD 89,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Staff Design Quality Engineer (Mechanical) to support medical product development in Portage, Michigan. You will collaborate with R&D, Operations, and Suppliers to ensure quality, risk management, and process controls across design, verification, and validation activities.

The role emphasizes root cause analysis, design reviews, and post-market quality support to ensure safe, effective products and smooth transitions to manufacturing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• 4+ years of quality, manufacturing, new product development, or engineering experience.
• Medical device/manufacturing experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner with R&D to ensure mechanical designs meet safety and usability requirements.
• Lead risk management activities including plans, reviews, and control effectiveness.
• Collaborate with Operations and suppliers to implement robust process controls for mechanical components and processes.
• Support design verification, validation, and synthesis of PPAP requirements with suppliers.

Skills

Quality engineering

Risk assessment

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

FMEA

GD&T

Minitab

Job description

Work Flexibility: Onsite

Stryker is hiring a Staff Design Quality Engineer (Mechanical) in Portage, Michigan to support our Medical business. In this role, you will provide quality support for new product development and partner with cross-functional teams, including R&D, Operations, Manufacturing, Suppliers, Testing, and Regulatory, throughout the development process. You will support mechanical design quality activities, risk management, design verification and validation, process controls, and post-market quality support through the change control process. You may also support quality improvement projects.

What you will do

• Partner closely with R&D to ensure mechanical product designs meet quality requirements for safety, effectiveness, reliability, manufacturability, and usability. Support the collection of customer and market feedback to inform design requirements and validate the design as it matures through production launch.
• Lead risk management activities for new product development teams by developing risk management plans and reports, conducting risk reviews, and verifying the implementation and effectiveness of design and process risk controls.
• Partner with Operations and suppliers to implement robust process controls for mechanical components, assemblies, and manufacturing processes.
• Participate in design reviews and track how mechanical design features, drawings, specifications, documentation, inspection methods, and manufacturing processes mitigate risks throughout the development process.
• Lead design validation activities, including human factors usability engineering and evaluation of mechanical design performance against user needs and intended use.
• Support product design and quality transfers to internal and/or external manufacturing facilities.
• Analyze and define critical quality attributes for products and processes through risk analysis techniques.
• Contribute to the completion of final design verification and validation reports.
• Support PPAP planning, communicate PPAP requirements to component suppliers, and support PPAP approval.

What you will need

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering discipline.
• 4+ years’ experience in quality, manufacturing, new product development, or engineering.

Preferred

• Experience within medical device/manufacturing industry.
• Familiarity with ISO 13485 (medical device standard) and ISO 14971 (risk management standard).
• Data analysis (statistical analysis, sampling plans, statistical process control, Minitab) experience.
• Demonstrated applied knowledge of Advanced Quality tools such as Failure Modes Effect Analysis (FMEA), GD&T, tolerance analysis, Root Cause Analysis, and Mistake Proofing/Poke Yoke. Demonstrated ability to read and interpret CAD models, drawings, specifications, and inspection requirements.
• Six Sigma Certification.
• ASQ CSQE certification.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• USN : $89,300 - $148,800 USD Annual

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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.