Staff Product Safety Engineer

Stryker; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 89,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

HSAs/FSAs

401(k) plan

Wellbeing program

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Senior Product Safety Engineer to lead safety programs within the Surgical Technologies unit. You will drive safety requirements across product development, coordinate with leadership on safety initiatives, and ensure compliance with major safety standards.

The role emphasizes collaboration with external bodies and mentoring early-career engineers, while shaping future technology roadmaps and maintaining a strong safety culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 4+ years of engineering experience.
• Experience leading Product Safety Programs in complex R&D projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead Product Safety Programs for complex R&D projects within Surgical Technologies, ensuring safety requirements are integrated throughout development.
• Collaborate with leadership to influence safety initiatives across units.
• Ensure regulatory compliance with U.S. and international safety standards and certifications.
• Direct safety testing activities and ensure third-party certification readiness.
• Collaborate with external certification bodies to attain and maintain product certifications.
• Provide safety education, mentorship, and frameworks for early-career safety engineers.
• Promote strong safety culture across engineering and design teams.
• Offer strategic technical leadership on safety challenges and roadmaps.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

What You Will Do

• Lead Product Safety Programs for complex R&D projects within the Surgical Technologies business unit, ensuring safety requirements are integrated throughout product development.
• Collaborate with leadership and influencing technical and organizational safety initiatives across business units.
• Ensure Regulatory Compliance with U.S. and international electrical and mechanical safety standards, regulations, and certifications.
• Direct Safety Testing Activities by supporting laboratory personnel, developing test plans, and ensuring compliance testing meets third-party certification requirements.
• Collaborate with External Certification Bodies including NRTLs and other organizations to achieve and maintain product certifications.
• Provide Product Safety technical education, mentorship, and frameworks that support the growth of early-career Product Safety Engineers.
• Promote a Strong Safety Culture by embedding product safety, compliance, and industry best practices across engineering and design teams.
• Provide Strategic Technical Leadership by resolving complex safety challenges, supporting product lifecycle activities, consulting on compliance issues, and shaping future technology roadmaps.

What You Need (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or related Engineering degree
• 4+ years of engineering experience
• Prior experience leading Product Safety Programs for complex R&D projects, ensuring safety requirements are integrated throughout product development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Possess an understanding of IEC standards and understanding of compliance or related regulatory compliance standards.
• Viewed as a divisional resource in area of expertise.
• Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Competent with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.).
• Demonstrated competence and an intermediate level of expertise in product design theory and application as applied specifically to electrical hardware and architecture, microcontroller, microprocessor, wireless technologies, embedded systems but also familiarity with mechanical components and products.
• Work within and apply the following standards in the development of our products (not limited to the below standards):
• IEC 60601-1 (General Safety Requirements for Medical Electrical Equipment)
• IEC 60601-1-2 (EMC)
• IEC 60529 (Ingress Protection for Enclosures)
• IEC 61000 Series (EMC Testing Techniques)
• UL 746C (Polymeric Material Used In Electrical Equipment)
• (Audio/video, information and communication technology equipment - Part 1: Safety requirements)
• IEC 61010-1 (Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, control, and laboratory use - Part 1: General requirements )
• ISO 17025 (General Requirements For The Competence Of Testing And Calibration Laboratories)

$89,300 - $148,800 USD Annual

Health benefits include: 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 include: 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.

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.

Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.

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