Senior Product Team Leader

What you will do -

The Senior Product Team Leader leads day-to-day manufacturing operations with accountability for safety, quality, delivery, cost, employee engagement, and team development. This leader will develop talent, drive continuous improvement, and partner cross-functionally to ensure production goals are achieved while maintaining compliance with quality and regulatory standards. The role requires a strong people leader who can effectively manage a skilled workforce, solve operational challenges, and drive results across multiple shifts.

• Lead and develop a manufacturing team across multiple shifts, fostering a culture of accountability, engagement, safety, quality, and continuous improvement.

• Deliver business objectives related to safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people development , using data and operational metrics to identify priorities and drive results.

• Coach, mentor, and develop team members and frontline leaders through ongoing feedback, performance management, training, and development planning.

• Anticipate production risks and partner with cross-functional teams, including Materials, Quality, Engineering, and Operations, to resolve issues and prevent production delays or part shortages.

• Drive workforce planning, resource allocation, cross-training, and competency development to ensure appropriate coverage and support changing production needs.

• Lead structured problem solving and continuous improvement initiatives, including Lean, 6S, Leader Standard Work, and other operational excellence activities.

• Monitor operational performance and communicate business results, risks, and priorities through daily management processes and leadership meetings.

• Manage labor and operating costs, including overtime, staffing, timecard management, and cost improvement opportunities.

• Partner with other leaders on plant-wide initiatives and provide leadership beyond the immediate area when needed.

• Support recruitment, selection, onboarding, and retention of talent while creating an environment that promotes employee growth and engagement.

• Ensure training, documentation, audits, and recordkeeping are completed in accordance with quality, regulatory, legal, corporate, and HR requirements.

• Serve as a key operational leader and provide leadership coverage when needed, including communicating performance, priorities, and risks to senior leadership.

Required -

• Bachelor’s degree or 6 years of experience in lieu of a degree

• 6+ years of relevant experience

• Proven leadership experience

Preferred -

• Proven experience in manufacturing or operations

• Experience working with ERP/ MPR systems

• Lean manufacturing

$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.