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Strategic Manufacturing Op's Lead Engineer
full-timeIndianapolis

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Indianapolis

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full-time

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About this role

Work Flexibility: Remote or Hybrid or Onsite

Role Summary:

The Plant Network team plays a critical role in shaping the company’s manufacturing footprint by providing the financial insight and analysis needed to guide strategic network decisions. This role focuses on evaluating the cost, capacity, and efficiency impacts of network changes, ensuring that decisions align with both operational excellence and long-term business strategy.

What you will do:

  • Key member of Plant Network team.

  • Formulate and implement strategic plans to help drive the overarching strategic plan and future direction of the Plant Network organization.

  • Be an effective partner across all functions within divisional and GQO organizations to deliver margin expansion in line with divisional pipelines. Participate in and lead a cross functional/divisional business forums and process improvement initiatives.

  • Responsible for directing the teams to work effectively and build collaborative relationships with Manufacturing teams and with the manufacturing operations to improve the COGS and supply chain agility of products, utilizing relevant tools.

  • Evaluate and develop detailed financial models to compare and assess network scenarios such as plant expansions, consolidations, transfers, or closures.

  • Translate complex financial and operational data into clear insights and recommendations to support leadership decision-making.

  • Partner closely with Product Transfer, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Procurement, HR, and Strategy teams to ensure all business dimensions—cost, capacity, risk, people and sustainability—are captured in evaluations.

  • Support NPI business cases to ensure alignment with network strategy

  • Provide analytical and financial input during M&A due diligence

  • Evaluate manufacturing synergies, capacity overlaps and network optimization opportunities arising from acquisitions or divestitures

  • Support “what-if” analyses to evaluate trade-offs across different network design options and regional cost structures.

  • Maintain up-to-date databases and dashboards that reflect key network cost drivers and performance metrics.

  • Identify opportunities to streamline financial evaluation processes and improve accuracy, transparency, and decision speed.

  • Provide direction to the team in complex or difficult situations, remove obstacles, assign appropriate resources and interface with other functions to assist with issue resolution.

  • Oversee aspects of Plant Network Governance ensuring all program activities remain on track, develop and maintain risk logs to manage Plant Network risks.

  • Facilitate Plant Network meetings, reviews, actions and escalations. Ensure all actions are tracked and completed in a timely manner

Minimum Requirements:

  • B.S in Engineering, Science or business discipline

  • 5-8 Years leadership experience or substantial operations, supply planning or engineering support is .

Preferred Skills:

  • MS degree

  • Strong interpersonal, communication, influencing and presentation skills essential. 

  • Individual must possess strong leadership skills, proven ability to coach and mentor individuals in technical skills and people development areas. The individual should enjoy working in a dynamic and results driven team based environment with flexibility essential.

  • Self-starter with demonstrated efficient work methods and the ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment

  • Strong analytical skills with a high problem solving and process improvement orientation critical.

  • Analytical, logical and strategic thought process.

  • Innovative thinker - should be able to envisage new and better ways of doing things.

  • Experience in Medical Device or FDA regulated environment is beneficial

Travel Percentage: 30%

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.

Other facts

Tech stack
Strategic Planning,Financial Analysis,Cross-Functional Collaboration,Process Improvement,Data Analysis,Leadership,Coaching,Mentoring,Problem Solving,Manufacturing Operations,Supply Chain Agility,Risk Management,Database Management,Communication,Presentation Skills,Innovative Thinking

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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Team size: 10,001+ employees
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Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing

What you'll do

  • The Strategic Manufacturing Op's Lead Engineer will be a key member of the Plant Network team, responsible for formulating and implementing strategic plans to drive the organization's future direction. They will evaluate financial models for network scenarios and translate complex data into insights for leadership decision-making.

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Why join Stryker as a Strategic Manufacturing Op's Lead Engineer?

Stryker is a leading Medical Equipment Manufacturing company.

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