Quality Specialist
Stryker · Kalamazoo, MI
- Level
- Specialist
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 2+ years
- Industry
- Medical devices
- Posted
- 2 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A specialist quality role at Stryker (medical devices) in Kalamazoo, MI.
- They ask for
- 2+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 9, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in Michigan: typical posted base $87k–$149k.
Median of the low and high ends of 27 live postings that list pay, out of 85 quality engineer openings in Michigan, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Michigan plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 84 other live quality postings in Michigan.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (2+ vs 5+)
Typical $87k–$149k, from 26 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 65%
- PPAP 49%
- FMEA 49%
- New product launch 38%
- Control plans 38%
- APQP 36%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: Stryker in Kalamazoo
3 other open roles at this site · 3 people we found in quality roles at Stryker.
- Staff Continuous Improvement Engineer · Lean / CI · Senior
- Senior Quality Engineer · Quality · Senior
- Staff Quality Engineer · Quality · Senior
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Position Summary
Responsible for supporting quality processes in the manufacturing plant. Provide assistance and support to various quality engineering processes, drive improvement. Adheres to quality standards and follows guidelines to ensure parts, products, and processes meet specifications and requirements.
What you will do
- ◆Assist with investigations of nonconforming material in the MRB area
- ◆Assist with investigation and disposition of finished good quarantined material.
- ◆Investigate and disposition quarantined components.
- ◆Communicate and coordinate with supplier on quality issues.
- ◆Provide administrative support and assistance in managing Supplier Initiated Change Requests (SICRs).
- ◆Assist with investigations of Out of Tolerance (OOT) calibration equipment and gages.
- ◆Support and drive updates and changes to documents including mark-ups, rewrites, and routing changes in OnePLM
- ◆Perform containment, investigation, and disposition of nonconforming material or process issues for nonconformances in eCAPA.
- ◆Pull and trend metrics to support the quality teams and drive continuous improvement.
- ◆Using data and other inputs, identify, prioritize, and deliver on business and customer needs.
- ◆Accountable to meeting and/or exceeding business objectives including but not limited to safety, quality, delivery, customer experience, people development and cost.
- ◆Partner with other cross functional areas on projects or operations initiatives to align when appropriate.
- ◆Identify and execute quality improvement projects through teamwork, problem solving, and operating with high level of customer service.
- ◆Participate in and support internal and external quality system audits.
What you need
- ✓Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships
- ✓Ability to lead as individual contributor
- ✓Excellent organization, planning, communication, project management and performance attainment in quality environment
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Quality Specialist
Schedule: 1st shift - 6am-2:30pm
Preferred
- +Previous quality experience preferred
- +2 year Technical Degree or equivalent experience
- +Professional certification such as ASQ certification (CQI, CQT, etc)
United States of America Pay Ranges
- •USN : $29.97 - $41.45 USD Hourly
- •US5 : $31.47 - $43.53 USD Hourly
- •US10 : $32.97 - $45.60 USD Hourly
- •US15 : $34.47 - $47.67 USD Hourly
- •US20 : $35.97 - $49.74 USD Hourly
- •US30 : $38.97 - $53.89 USD Hourly
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