Project Manager, Manufacturing- Orthopaedics

Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and is dedicated to helping healthcare professionals perform their jobs more efficiently while enhancing patient care. Stryker offers a diverse array of innovative medical technologies, including reconstructive, medical and surgical, and neurotechnology and spine products to help people lead more active and more satisfying lives.

We are currently seeking a Project Manager, Manufacturing for Stryker’s Global Quality and Operations department manufacturing Orthopaedic (Joint Replacement Implant) products in Mahwah, New Jersey. As the Project Manager, you will explore and bring to Manufacturing Operations processes and methods that presently are not utilized in the manufacture of Orthopaedic devices.

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.
• Business-oriented evaluators. People who effectively interpret information to demonstrate the effects of process improvements, downstream quality effects industry trends for technology and business solutions.
• Self-directed innovators. People who take ownership of their work and need no prompting to drive productivity, change, and outcomes.
• Strategic thinkers. People who enjoy analyzing data or trends for the purposes of project planning and execution
• Collaborative partners. People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.

What you will do:

As a Project Manager you are an integral and vital part of our research and development teams. With a focus on continuous improvement and automation initiatives, you will interface with numerous functions of the business, including marketing, R&D, clinical, regulatory, and operations.

As a Project Manager, your primary goal is to ensure that the projects in our portfolio deliver on-time and on-budget. You will also play a major role in helping to coordinate project management activities across our multiple sites around the world. Whether running project meetings, managing schedules, or developing strategic plans for new programs, as a Project Manager you will be focused on ensuring that we deliver the products that support our corporate mission to make healthcare better.

For this position, we are looking for an experienced engineering Project Manager having a solid track record of executing various projects in an operations environment.

Additional Responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain project plans for the complete program using MS Project Online.
• Create and maintain other program documentation (e.g. charter, roadmap/pipeline, benefits map, design documentation, etc.) to meet business goals and program objectives.
• Track and forecast project performance with respect to timeline and budget.
• Manage tactical execution of the project team with a focus on managing project risk and elevating key project dependencies.
• Coordinate with other project managers across our site to ensure accurate tracking of all inter-project dependencies.
• Assess trade-offs associated with changes to project scope, schedule, and cost.
• Develop mitigations strategies when the inevitable changes to delivery timelines occur.
• Develop and maintain project status tracking and reporting tools.
• Report project status to senior management.
• Coordinate with functional managers to foresee/understand critical project activities and to enable them to manage team resources and tasks to avoid critical path slippage.
• Improve team performance by building team cohesiveness, leading, influencing, training, mentoring and motivating in order to facilitate cooperation, ensure efficiency, and boost morale.

What you need:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other related discipline required.
• Master of Engineering Management or related degree is highly preferred.
• 5+ years related work experience required.
• 2+ years of practical project management experience highly preferred.
• MS Project or MS Project Online experience highly preferred.
• Formal program/project management training or coursework highly preferred.
• PMP Certification highly preferred.
• Class II/III medical device experience preferred.

Work From Home: Occasional

Travel Percentage: 10%

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.