Job Description

About Stryker

Stryker is one of the world's leading medical technology companies and, together with our customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. We are proud to be named one of the World's Best Workplaces and a Best Workplace for Diversity by Fortune Magazine. Learn more about our award-winning organization by visiting stryker.com

Job Summary

Develops products, materials, processes, or equipment for projects of moderate complexity. Under supervision, develops, directs, and executes plans for moderately complex projects that may represent segments of a larger, more complex project. Under limited supervision/guidance, compiles, analyzes, and reports operational, test, and research data to establish performance standards for newly designed or modified products, processes, and materials.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

* Works independently to plan and schedule own activities necessary to meet timelines.
* Designs and coordinates standard engineering tests and experiments.
* Designs, procures, and fabricates tooling and fixtures.
* Performs troubleshooting on new products/process problems as related to design, material, or process.
* Summarizes, analyzes, and draws conclusions from test results.
* Prepares standard reports/documentation to communicate results to technical community.
* Responsible for engineering documentation.
* May train and/or provide work direction to technicians.
* Works cooperatively with, quality, manufacturing, regulatory, clinical, and marketing to ensure project success.
* Demonstrates PDP/TPD system knowledge through delivery of high quality deliverables.
* Build quality into all aspects of their work by maintaining compliance to all quality requirements.

Process Development Responsibilities

* Executes the functional deliverables associated with the PDP/TDP, Project Management, and Quality Systems.
* Ensures proper documentation is completed to meet quality systems requirements. (e.g., BOMs, Routers, FMEAs, etc.)
* Provides Design for Manufacturability (DFM) input to the engineering print package.
* Writes validation protocols and reports applicable to new processes.
* Contributes ideas to or generates Intellectual Property submissions.
* Oversees development builds associated with the project using special work requests.

Design Development and Packaging Responsibilities

* Fully participates in and successfully contributes to project teams typically including the following activities: product design and development, materials and/or product testing, preparation of specifications, process capability studies, research investigations (animal and clinical studies), protocol and report preparation.
* Interfaces with Physicians/Cath Lab personnel to obtain feedback on concepts and performance of new devices.
* Invents/ creates concepts and designs for new products/processes, and submits idea disclosures.

Model Development Responsibilities

* 3D data manipulation for printing and casting anatomical models
* Create patient specific pathology models from CT and MRI scans
* Maintains the model electronic database
* Independently performs work, which involves conventional types of plans, investigations, processes, or equipment with relatively few complex features for which there are precedents.
* Plans, schedules, conducts or coordinates detailed phases of the model development work in total project of moderate to complex scope.
* Development of new models and/or materials or improvement of existing models
* Interfaces with material or model vendors and other outside specialists
* Interfaces with Preclinical, R&D and Marketing to understand the complexities of the neurovascularture and evolving disease/treatment state
* Build Quality into all aspects of their work by maintaining compliance to all quality requirements.
* Skilled at design, fabrication, and assembly of models and fixtures, with a significant hands-on component.
* In coordination with R&D and Preclinical determines validation strategies for new models and/or fixtures and supports writing of validation protocols and reports applicable to new models and/or fixtures
* Interfaces with Physicians/Cath Lab personnel to obtain feedback on models and/or fixtures.

Education/Special Training Required

* B.S. degree in engineering or applicable technical field (mechanical or biomedical preferred)

Qualifications/Work Experience Required

* 2+ years of experience
* Prefer prior experience in medical device development
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with good leadership abilities.
* Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
* Strong technical capabilities and project management capability to develop aspects of assigned projects on time and within budget.
* Viewed as a team resource.

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