Staff Engineer - Manufacturing Engineering

Join a manufacturing engineering team focused on advancing process performance, equipment optimization, and product quality within a regulated production environment. As a Staff Engineer, Manufacturing, you will provide technical leadership for manufacturing processes, validation activities, CNC machining operations, and continuous improvement initiatives while serving as a subject matter expert in your assigned area. This role partners closely with production, quality, suppliers, and engineering teams to support compliant, efficient, and scalable manufacturing operations.

What You Will Do

• Lead manufacturing engineering projects, equipment qualifications, and process validation activities while ensuring compliance with quality and regulatory requirements.

• Develop, optimize, and troubleshoot manufacturing processes, including CNC machining operations, to improve efficiency, quality, and cost performance.

• Generate, review, and approve validation documentation, technical reports, process studies, and engineering change records in accordance with established procedures.

• Collaborate with quality and operations teams to investigate manufacturing issues, support nonconformance and corrective action activities, perform risk assessments, and implement process improvements.

• Provide technical training and subject matter expertise for production personnel, standardize manufacturing best practices, and lead Lean continuous improvement initiatives.

What You Will Need

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science (Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial, Electrical, Production Engineering, or related discipline).

• Minimum 4 years of experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.

• Minimum 4 years of CNC programming and manufacturing experience.

• Experience with CNC machining processes including CNC turning, multi-axis machining, Swiss machining, or 5-axis milling.

• Experience with CAM software such as Mastercam, FeatureCAM, Esprit, or equivalent.

• Experience with CAD software such as Creo, NX, SolidWorks, Autodesk, or equivalent.

• Experience with process validation, verification activities, and production process troubleshooting in a regulated manufacturing environment.

• Proficiency in Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).

Preferred:

• Lean Certification.

• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certification.

• Experience supporting CNC machine controls or programming platforms such as Mazatrol, Fanuc, or similar systems.

• Experience leading capital equipment implementation, installation, and validation projects.

$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.

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.