Associate Manager, Quality Assurance

Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite

Stryker is hiring an Associate Manager, Quality Assurance to lead the Quality Assurance team for our Global Quality Organization under our Endoscopy/Communications division in Flower Mound, TX that focuses on Quality activities with responsibility for delivering key quality and compliance results for the site operations.

Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid - The candidate must live within a commutable distance to Flower Mound, Texas, with an expectation to be onsite at the facility several times per week.

What you will do:

• Quality Assurance Leadership: Leads the QA team to drive product and process performance, focusing on continuous improvement and alignment with quality assurance programs.

• Performance and Compliance Initiatives: Implements programs to achieve product performance targets, reducing defects in areas like first pass yields, process defects per million (DPM), and manufacturing losses.

• Supplier Quality Partnerships: Collaborates with Supplier Quality (SQ) teams to reduce supplier DPM, working toward meeting established quality and compliance targets.

• Risk and Compliance Management: Supports risk analysis, production control, NC/CAPA activities, and audit readiness to ensure compliance with internal and external quality standards.

• Customer and Regulatory Conformance: Ensures that products meet or exceed customer requirements and comply with relevant regulatory standards, with an emphasis on proactive quality management and corrective actions.

• Continuous Improvement and Accountability: Promotes a culture of quality ownership across the organization, encouraging employees to prioritize quality in their roles and fostering an environment of continuous improvement.

• Talent Development and Team Building: Builds a high-performing QA team, emphasizing talent selection, training, performance management, and a positive work environment based on inclusiveness, trust, and teamwork.

• Quality Improvement Strategy: Develops and implements a quality planning pipeline focused on enhancing product quality, reducing costs, improving efficiency, and strengthening risk management processes.

What you need:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in an engineering-related field.

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in a highly regulated environment, with a preference for medical device industry experience.

• At least 1 year of experience in a quality engineering role, with exposure to lean manufacturing principles and continuous improvement practices.

Preferred

• 1-2 years of experience in people leadership within a highly matrixed environment.

• Familiarity with ISO standards, including 13485, 14971, and 9001. 

Travel Percentage: 10%

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.

Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.