Manufacturing Manager

Join a manufacturing leadership role where operational excellence, product quality, and continuous improvement come together in a highly regulated environment. This position leads manufacturing operations across safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity objectives while partnering with cross-functional teams to support business performance and growth. The role offers the opportunity to lead people, improve processes, and drive operational results in a complex manufacturing setting.

What You Will Do:

• Lead manufacturing operations to achieve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity targets.

• Ensure compliance with all applicable safety, environmental, regulatory, and company requirements.

• Direct preparation for and execution of internal, customer, corporate, and regulatory audits, including FDA inspections.

• Investigate product quality issues and implement corrective actions in partnership with Quality and cross-functional teams.

• Develop team leaders and employees through coaching, performance management, workforce planning, and succession planning.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, including Kaizen events, workplace organization programs, waste reduction, and cost optimization efforts.

• Partner with Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and New Product Introduction teams to improve manufacturability and support product launches.

• Resolve operational constraints, resource conflicts, and production challenges to maintain schedule attainment and on-time customer delivery.

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations Management, Production Management, or a related field.

• Minimum 8 years of manufacturing experience.

• Minimum 3 years of people leadership experience in a manufacturing environment.

• Experience leading operations within a regulated manufacturing environment.

• Experience managing quality, productivity, delivery, and cost performance metrics.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience manufacturing high-reliability electromechanical products.

• Experience applying Lean manufacturing methodologies, including Kaizen, workplace organization systems, and waste reduction initiatives.

• Experience leading cross-functional operational improvement projects.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

USN : $118,000 - $196,700 USD Annual

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker 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 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.