Job Description

Work Flexibility: Onsite

Join a manufacturing leadership role where operational excellence, product quality, and continuous improvement come together in a highly regulated environment. This position leads manufacturing operations across safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity objectives while partnering with cross-functional teams to support business performance and growth. The role offers the opportunity to lead people, improve processes, and drive operational results in a complex manufacturing setting.

What You Will Do:

• Lead manufacturing operations to achieve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity targets.

• Ensure compliance with all applicable safety, environmental, regulatory, and company requirements.

• Direct preparation for and execution of internal, customer, corporate, and regulatory audits, including FDA inspections.

• Investigate product quality issues and implement corrective actions in partnership with Quality and cross-functional teams.

• Develop team leaders and employees through coaching, performance management, workforce planning, and succession planning.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, including Kaizen events, workplace organization programs, waste reduction, and cost optimization efforts.

• Partner with Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and New Product Introduction teams to improve manufacturability and support product launches.

• Resolve operational constraints, resource conflicts, and production challenges to maintain schedule attainment and on-time customer delivery.

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations Management, Production Management, or a related field.

• Minimum 8 years of manufacturing experience.

• Minimum 3 years of people leadership experience in a manufacturing environment.

• Experience leading operations within a regulated manufacturing environment.

• Experience managing quality, productivity, delivery, and cost performance metrics.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience manufacturing high-reliability electromechanical products.

• Experience applying Lean manufacturing methodologies, including Kaizen, workplace organization systems, and waste reduction initiatives.

• Experience leading cross-functional operational improvement projects.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

USN $118,000 - $196,700 USD Annual

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.