Principal Value Engineer

Why engineering at Stryker?

At Stryker we are dedicated to improving lives, with a passion for researching and developing new medical device products. As an engineer at Stryker, you will be proud of the work that you will be doing, using cutting-edge technologies to make healthcare better. Here, you will work in a supportive culture with other incredibly talented and intelligent people, creating industry-leading medical technology products. You will also have growth opportunities as we have a culture that supports your personal and professional development.

Need another reason to apply? Check out these 8 reasons to join Stryker's engineering team: https://www.strykercareersblog.com/post/8-reasons-to-join-strykers-engineering-team 

What you will do

The Principal Value Engineer executes assigned project elements with an emphasis on should cost and value engineering for sustaining projects.

• Employ project management and engineering experience to analyze part and portfolios for cost and other opportunities for savings

• Drive Should Cost modeling

• Drive Supplier Gemba to identify cost improvement opportunities.

• Learn and practice use of value engineering tools and templates to drive consistency across all efforts

• Own and manage functions of value engineering analysis and produce outputs

• Co-lead should cost sprints in focus categories or across categories

• Liaise with various functional stakeholders to get inputs into building should cost models

• Drive excellence throughout the agile cost sprint execution

• Codify learning into organizational best practices

• All other duties as assigned

Who we want

• Detail-oriented process improvers. Critical thinkers who naturally see opportunities to develop and optimize work processes – finding ways to simplify, standardize and automate.

• Strategic thinkers. People who enjoy analyzing data or trends for the purposes of planning, forecasting, advising, budgeting, reporting, or sales opportunities.

• Collaborative partners. People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, data and insights to drive continuous improvement in functions.

What you will need

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required

• A minimum of 8 years of relevant/related experience required

• High level of PC Skills required - power BI experience preferred.

• Knowledge of manufacturing processes, materials, product and process design required

• Must be able to read and interpret complex engineering drawings and have the ability to understand geometrical dimensioning and tolerancing.

• Experience in an FDA regulated or regulated industry- preferred

• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt / Statistics SME - preferred

About Stryker
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 130 million patients annually. More information is available at stryker.com.