Stryker

Senior Staff Quality Engineer

Stryker  •  Alajuela, CR (Onsite)  •  2 months ago
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Job Description

Work Flexibility: Onsite

As a Senior Staff Quality Engineer, you will play a key role in ensuring the effectiveness of the Quality Management System (QMS) and compliance with applicable regulatory standards such as FDA GMP, ISO 13485, and MDSAP.

This role is critical in maintaining product quality, minimizing risks, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives across manufacturing and engineering processes. You will collaborate cross-functionally to resolve quality issues, enhance processes, and ensure compliance with both internal and external requirements, ultimately safeguarding product integrity and customer trust.

Responsabilities:

  • Lead the identification, escalation, and resolution of quality issues, ensuring effective collaboration across Quality, Engineering, and Production teams.
  • Drive Nonconformance (NCR) and CAPA investigations, including root cause analysis, risk assessments, and implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
  • Ensure proper containment and disposition of non-conforming products, including identification, segregation, and reconciliation.
  • Monitor, analyze, and trend quality data to identify risks and improvement opportunities; provide insights and recommendations to management.
  • Apply Risk Management tools (e.g., FMEA) to evaluate product and process risks and support decision-making.
  • Support and lead validation activities (IQ, OQ, PQ), including process, product, equipment, and software validation.
  • Maintain and improve electronic Quality Management Systems (eQMS), ensuring compliance with FDA (including Part 11), ISO 13485, and other applicable regulations.
  • Support internal, external, and supplier audits; address audit findings and review engineering changes to ensure product quality and compliance.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
  • Minimum 7 years of experience in Quality Engineering in medical device industry.
  • Experience in software validation.
  • Strong knowledge of advanced statistics and problem-solving techniques.
  • Working knowledge of 21 CFR Part 820 and ISO 13485.
  • Advanced English.
  • Preferably Six Sigma Black Belt or CQE (ASQ) certification and knowledge of MDSAP requirements.

Travel Percentage: 20%

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About Stryker

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology and Orthopaedics that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. More information is available at stryker.com and careers.stryker.com.

Facts:

● 2024 Sales: $22.6 billion

● Industry: Medical Instruments & Supplies

● Employees: 53,000 worldwide

● 40 years of sales growth leading up to 2020

● 44+ Manufacturing and R&D Locations Worldwide

● $1.5 billion spent on research and development in 2024

● ~14,200 patents owned globally in 2024

● Products sold in ~75 countries

● Fortune 500 Company

● 7 consecutive years as one of Fortune's World's Best Workplaces

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Industry
Manufacturing & Production
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Kalamazoo, MI
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