Associate Engineering Manager

Work Flexibility: Onsite Job Summary: 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. This is a people-leader role responsible for managing a professional engineering team, setting direction, developing talent, and driving department results What you will do: 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. Drive New Product Development strategy and process excellence into Electrical and Mechanical Engineering teams. Demonstrate a strong passion for discipline in work execution, ensuring 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. Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to ensure alignment and support in achieving technical roadmap goals, with a focus on skillset development. Participate in cost center budget creation, projections, and tracking activities. Contribute and execute customer facing activities like Voice of Customer and customer centric design in partnership with internal and external stakeholders. 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. 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. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, or related discipline Minimum 6 years of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, quality engineering, or a combination of related experience Preferred Qualification: 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. 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. Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. We are proud to be named one of the World’s Best Workplaces! For more information, visit: www.stryker.com Work Flexibility Remote – Role allows you to work the majority to 100% of time from an alternate workplace. These roles could have travel expectations, and you must work within the country of the job requisition location. Field-based – You can expect to regularly work a majority to 100% of time at customer facilities and has a set territory or expectation to travel within a set boundary. Almost all sales roles would likely be qualified as field-based. Onsite – Role is 100% located at a Stryker facility. Some ad hoc flexibility may be available depending on role, level, and job requirements. Manufacturing roles and any role that requires physical presence at the office would qualify under this category. Hybrid – You can expect to regularly work in both an alternate workplace and a Stryker facility. Roles that are partially remote or co-located would qualify as hybrid, and the expectation to be onsite would be defined and agreed upon by your manager/supervisor.