Engineering Manager, Advanced Operations (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

Required:

• 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

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.

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.