Work Flexibility: Onsite
Stryker is hiring a Senior Quality Engineer in Arlington, TN to support Trauma and Extremities! In this role, you will provide quality engineering support in quality assurance, control, and preventative activities with a focus on continuous improvement of internal products and processes. You will be an advocate and lead the execution of initiatives and projects to enhance quality performance within the business and for our customers.
What you will do:
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Collaborate with Divisional QA, cross-functional teams, and suppliers to address top quality issues, ensuring product and process quality performance.
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Manage non-conformances (NCs) and corrective/preventive actions (CAPAs) with timely root cause investigations, implementation, and closure.
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Oversee non-conforming product disposition, communicate with suppliers regarding NCs, and escalate supplier corrective actions when required.
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Support the development, improvement, and change management of internal manufacturing processes, including PPAP activities for supplier changes.
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Maintain and analyze KPIs, identifying trends and activating appropriate corrective actions to ensure quality standards.
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Engage in internal and external audits, provide subject matter expertise, and execute quality deliverables for engineering changes and manufacturing transfers.
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Apply risk management practices, statistical methods, and human factors science to reduce defects and support process and equipment validation.
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Lead and drive continuous improvement initiatives, providing QA leadership and expertise across the site.
What you will need:
Required:
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Bachelor's degree or higher in a Science or engineering related discipline.
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2+ years of experience in quality, engineering, manufacturing and/or operations within a highly regulated industry.
Preferred:
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Experience with ISO14971 and ICHQ9 risk management standards and guidance.
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Experience in working in a compliance risk situation.
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Strong quality background with CQE and / or Six Sigma Green or Blackbelt preferred.
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Expertise in Quality concepts (e.g. Risk Management, CAPA, Audits, Statistics, DMAIC, DFSS).
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Strong interpersonal skills, written communication, oral communication, and negotiations skills.
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.
What We Do
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company 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 130 million patients annually. More information is available at www.stryker.com.
Together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better.
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