Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Location: Stryker R&D Innovation Centre, Cork
12 month Fixed Term Contract
Please note this role does not meet the criteria to allow Stryker to sponsor a work permit.
Role Summary:
Design, support, and improve the SafeAir Smoke Evacuation Pencil through post‑market engineering activities, ensuring ongoing performance, compliance, and reliability. You will define and refine product requirements, evaluate design effectiveness, and implement improvements to enhance usability, safety, cost, and manufacturability across the product lifecycle. This includes supporting product specifications, bills of materials, and validation activities to ensure fitness‑for‑use.
Working closely with Operations, Quality, Regulatory, and suppliers, you will apply engineering judgement to investigate field issues, support CAPA activities, and drive design and process improvements. This is an individual contributor role requiring independent problem solving, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a regulated medical device environment.
This is an individual contributor role that requires the use of judgement in applying professional expertise and is expected to work independently with minimal supervision. Roles typically require a university degree or an extensive amount of practical knowledge gained through experience. Job requires an understanding and application of procedures and concepts of own discipline. The job requires attention to detail in making evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information. This job typically requires a degree or equivalent and a minimum of 2 or more years experience.
Key Responsibilities
Product Ownership & Sustainment
Own technical sustainment of the SafeAir Smoke Evacuation Pencil, ensuring performance, reliability, and compliance across the product lifecycle
Act as the primary engineering point of contact for cross-functional teams (Operations, QA/RA, Supply Chain)
Complex Problem Solving & Investigations
Lead root cause investigations for customer complaints, field issues, and manufacturing challenges
Apply structured problem-solving methodologies and data analysis to drive robust, long-term solutions
NC/CAPA & Risk Management
Lead and deliver NC/CAPA activities, ensuring timely closure and effective risk mitigation
Assess product risks and implement design or process improvements to enhance safety and reliability
Design & Change Leadership
Drive design improvements to optimise usability, manufacturability, and cost
Lead engineering changes (ECRs), including supplier changes product enhancements, ensuring alignment with design control requirements.
Support process updates from a design perspective
Manufacturing & Supplier Interface
Partner closely with manufacturing and suppliers to resolve technical design issues and improve process capability
Support supplier qualification, transfer activities, and PPAP where required
Validation & Technical Decision Making
Define and execute verification and validation strategies to support product changes
Make informed engineering decisions balancing technical, quality, regulatory, and commercial considerations
Technical Leadership & Influence
Provide technical leadership within cross-functional teams, influencing decisions and driving alignment
Contribute to engineering best practices within the team
Qualifications, Knowledge & Skills
Travel Percentage: 10%