Senior Quality Engineer
About this role
Make an impact on quality, patient safety, and continuous improvement.
As a Quality Engineer, you will play a key role in ensuring product and process quality across manufacturing operations and business functions. This is an exciting opportunity to influence quality performance, lead improvement initiatives, and drive compliance with regulatory and industry standards while partnering with cross-functional teams in a dynamic medical technology environment.
What you will do
- Partner with manufacturing and cross-functional teams to improve product and process quality performance and drive preventive quality activities.
- Lead and support nonconformance and corrective/preventive action activities, including root cause analysis and implementation of effective corrective actions.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives by analyzing quality performance indicators and implementing actions to improve results.
- Review, approve, and challenge change management activities to ensure robust quality and process effectiveness.
- Lead quality-related activities for manufacturing process development, optimization, validation, and product transfers between facilities.
- Apply risk management methodologies to identify process risks, evaluate mitigation strategies, and strengthen process controls.
- Optimize inspection methods, statistical sampling plans, and process monitoring approaches to enhance quality assurance effectiveness.
- Support and lead internal and external audits, including interactions with regulatory authorities, and provide quality expertise during inspections and reviews.
What do you need:
- Bachelor of Science, Engineering or related subject and minimum 2 years of work experience in a quality discipline.
- Have a good understanding of engineering and quality practices & methods.
- Knowledge of ISO 13485, Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), and Good Documentation Practice (GDP) requirements would be an advantage
- Lean Six Sigma training a distinct advantage.
- High level knowledge/experience of Risk Based and statistical techniques, in particular process risk, statistical sampling plans, Process Capability, Gauge R&Rs.
- Experience in validation of processes.
- Highly developed problem solving and strong analytical skills.
- Excellent English and Polish (both oral and written)
- Ability to be the voice of Quality when dealing cross functionally, will take the lead discussions / meetings to ensure the correct outcome.
Poland Pay Ranges:
- Poland, Skawina: zł107.100 - zł178.600 PLN Annual
At Stryker, we believe transparency helps candidates make confident decisions about their next career step. Compensation is an important part of that process and we want to be clear about how pay is determined. The compensation information posted for this role may be presented as a salary range or a fixed amount depending on the role. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for incentive compensation (such as bonus and/or commissions where applicable), along with Stryker’s comprehensive benefits package.
If you’d like to learn more about the salary or the benefits associated with this role, your recruiter will be happy to walk you through the details as you progress through the hiring process.
Travel Percentage: 10%Company at a glance
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
● 2025 Sales: $25.1 billion
● Industry: Medical Instruments & Supplies
● Employees: 56,000 worldwide
● 44+ Manufacturing and R&D Locations Worldwide
● $1.6 billion spent on research and development in 2025
● ~14,600 patents owned globally in 2025
● Products sold in ~61 countries
● Fortune 500 Company
● 9 consecutive years as one a World's Best Workplace
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Top Benefits
- Incentive compensation
- Comprehensive benefits package
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