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Support Technician Lead – Weekend Shift – Starting at $40.13/hr + $1.00 Shift Premium

Stryker

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Compensation
$40.13–56.79/hr
Location
Cary, IL
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Support Technician Lead oversees weekend support operations that prepare manufacturing equipment and production lines. The role leads technicians, coordinates cleaning, sanitization, setup, and changeovers, and provides hands-on equipment support. It works with Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, and Operations to address issues and maintain production readiness, while supporting safety, quality, compliance, and continuous improvement.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Team LeadershipCommunicationOrganizationEnglishComputer ProficiencyMicrosoft WordMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OutlookMicrosoft PowerPointMechanical TroubleshootingElectrical TroubleshootingEquipment CleaningSanitizationEquipment ChangeoversPreventive MaintenanceCleanroom OperationsLean ManufacturingLifting 50 PoundsOperating Material Handling EquipmentStanding and WalkingRepetitive Physical Tasks

Qualifications

High School Diploma or Equivalent5+ Years Regulated Manufacturing ExperiencePrevious Leadership Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match

Full job description

Schedule: Fridays | 6:45am – 5:00pm

Saturday | 6:45pm – 5:00pm

Sunday | 11:00am – 11:00pm

Monday | 6:45am – 3:00pm

What You Will Do:

As a Support Technician Lead, you will lead a team responsible for equipment cleaning, sanitization, changeovers, and production line setup activities that keep manufacturing operations running safely and efficiently. This hands-on leadership role requires strong organization, technical problem-solving, and collaboration to ensure equipment is production-ready while meeting quality, safety, and compliance standards.

  • Lead and develop a team of Support Technicians during weekend operations.

  • Coordinate and schedule equipment cleaning, sanitization, setup activities, and production changeovers.

  • Perform hands-on support for equipment cleaning, disassembly, reassembly, troubleshooting, and production line preparation.

  • Ensure manufacturing equipment and cleanroom areas are cleaned and validated according to approved procedures.

  • Partner with Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, and Operations to resolve issues and improve equipment performance.

  • Maintain cleaning procedures, work instructions, logs, and related documentation to ensure compliance and continuous improvement.

  • Monitor inventory levels of cleaning supplies, chemicals, replacement parts, and consumables to support operations.

  • Lead performance, safety, quality, and continuous improvement initiatives using Stryker Production System (SPS) principles.

  • Support investigations related to non-conformances, equipment issues, and process improvements.

  • Communicate priorities and progress across shifts to ensure smooth production startup and execution.

What You Need:

Required:

  • High school diploma or equivalent.

  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in a manufacturing, cGMP, food, pharmaceutical, medical device, or similarly regulated environment.

  • Previous experience leading, supervising, or coordinating the work of others.

  • Strong communication and organizational skills.

  • Ability to read and understand procedures, work instructions, and safety documentation in English.

  • Basic computer proficiency including Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

  • Ability to work overtime and support weekend operations as needed.

Preferred:

  • Previous people management or supervisory experience.

  • Mechanical and electrical troubleshooting experience in a manufacturing environment.

  • Experience with equipment cleaning, sanitization, changeovers, or preventive maintenance activities.

  • Experience working in cleanroom or regulated manufacturing environments.

  • Continuous improvement or lean manufacturing experience.

Physical Requirements:

  • Lift, move, and maneuver up to 50 pounds with or without mechanical assistance.

  • Operate material handling equipment such as pallet jacks and roll handling equipment.

  • Work in cleanroom and washdown environments.

  • Stand and walk for the majority of the workday.

  • Perform repetitive bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, and lifting.

  • Work extended shifts, including 10-12 hour days.

$40.13 - $56.79/ + $1.00 Shift premium plus bonus potential and benefits.

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.

How this job compares

Set against the 1,526 open Manufacturing Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$40.13–56.79/hr
  • Illinois median$25–27/hr22 hourly ranges
  • US median$24–28/hr744 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $48.46/hr, is 84% above the Illinois median midpoint ($26/hr) — in the top quarter of Manufacturing Technician hourly ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 30 open Manufacturing Technician jobs in Illinois and 1,526 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience — more than three in four Manufacturing Technician postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 843 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 747 of the 1,526 open Manufacturing Technician jobs (49%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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