Senior Design Engineer, R&D - SafeAir Smoke Evacuation Pencil

About the role

Stryker is hiring a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer for its R&D Innovation Centre in Cork, on a 12-month fixed-term contract. The role focuses on the SafeAir Smoke Evacuation Pencil, designing, supporting and improving it through post-market engineering so that performance, compliance and reliability are maintained. It is an individual contributor position working closely with Operations, Quality, Regulatory and suppliers, with hybrid or onsite work and about 10% travel.

Key responsibilities

• Own the technical sustainment of the SafeAir Smoke Evacuation Pencil, keeping it performing, reliable and compliant
• Act as the main engineering contact for Operations, QA/RA and Supply Chain
• Lead root cause investigations of customer complaints, field issues and manufacturing challenges
• Lead NC/CAPA activities and assess product risks, implementing design or process improvements
• Drive design improvements for usability, manufacturability and cost, and lead engineering changes including supplier changes
• Work with manufacturing and suppliers on design issues, supplier qualification, transfer and PPAP
• Define and run verification and validation strategies for product changes
• Provide technical leadership within cross-functional teams

Required profile

• Degree in Mechanical, Biomedical, Manufacturing, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline
• Strong experience in medical device engineering (design and/or sustaining), ideally in electro-mechanical products
• Minimum of 2 years' experience
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and to manage multiple priorities

Required skills

• Design control, change management and regulated product development (ISO 13485 / FDA)
• Root cause analysis and structured problem-solving
• Validation/verification and statistical analysis
• CAD and engineering analysis tools such as tolerance analysis and FEA
• Materials, manufacturing processes and design for manufacturability