Stryker is looking to lead the design and development of new products from concept through launch, defining requirements, validating performance, and ensuring reliability, safety, and cost effectiveness. This role will oversee the creation of CAD/CAE models, engineering drawings, product specifications, and testing/validation plans while partnering closely with manufacturing and cross-functional teams to optimize designs for production. It is a people-leader role responsible for managing a professional engineering team, setting direction, developing talent, and driving department results.
Requirements
- Minimum 6 years of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, quality engineering, or a combination of related experience
- People/project management experience
- Talented performance coach who is skilled at providing actionable feedback to team members, setting clear performance objectives and managing team member performance.
- General knowledge of the healthcare market and competitors.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate plans and technical information to team members within a business unit.
Responsibilities
- Leads the design and development of new products from concept through launch, defining requirements, validating performance, and ensuring reliability, safety, and cost effectiveness.
- Oversees creation of CAD/CAE models, engineering drawings, product specifications, and testing/validation plans while partnering closely with manufacturing and cross-functional teams to optimize designs for production.
- Drive New Product Development strategy and process excellence into Electrical and Mechanical Engineering teams.
- Ensure strategic, process excellence, technical rigor, and continuous improvement.
- Identify and leverage cross business unit resources to meet project milestones and enhance delivery.
- Collaborate with the R&D leadership team on the creation and development of a NPD technical roadmap, building a skilled team to meet technical requirements and project milestones.
- Support and mentor others in complex cooperative efforts across cross-functional teams, influencing one's own technical areas of expertise and building key relationships, to drive innovation and ensure achievement of business goals.
Other
- Execute a robust talent offense by attracting, developing, retaining, and engaging top talent while driving personal/professional growth of individuals, the team and delivering high quality results with passion, energy and drive.
- Support a culture of diversity, inclusion, and belonging at a team level in hiring and staff development.
- Lead projects and initiatives within the business unit, with responsibility for planning, budgeting, meeting project goals and adequately staffing with talent.
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, or related discipline
- Contribute and execute customer facing activities like Voice of Customer and customer centric design in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.
