Engineering Manager, NPD
Stryker · Salt Lake City, UT
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Base pay
- $124k–$207k
- Travel
- 20%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 8+ years
- Industry
- Medical devices
- Posted
- 8 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management manufacturing role at Stryker (medical devices) in Salt Lake City, UT. Partner effectively across divisional and operations functions, as well as with counterparts across the broader organization, to address NPI challenges, drive resolution, and deliver new products to market on time.
- They ask for
- 8+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, FMEA, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), Extrusion
- Base pay
- $124k–$207k
- Day to day
- about 20% travel
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in Utah: typical posted base $98k–$125k. This one lists $124k–$207k.
Median of the low and high ends of 8 live postings that list pay, out of 19 manufacturing engineer openings in Utah, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Utah plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 18 other live manufacturing postings in Utah.
- Base pay
- About 57% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (8+ vs 5+)
Typical $90k–$120k, from 7 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Lean 68%
- ✓ New product launch 58%
- Tooling 53%
- ✓ Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 47%
- Root cause 42%
- Six Sigma 37%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Extrusion, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
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- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is the work mostly new product launches or sustaining existing lines?
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This plant: Stryker in Salt Lake City
1 other open role at this site.
- Senior Manufacturing Engineer · Manufacturing · Senior
Full description from StrykerAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
What You Will Do
- ◆Partner effectively across divisional and operations functions, as well as with counterparts across the broader organization, to address NPI challenges, drive resolution, and deliver new products to market on time.
- ◆Provide clear direction on projects and establish team priorities, creating a sense of urgency and importance to deliver new products within quality, cost, and timeline requirements.
- ◆Determine project scope, scale, resource needs, and financial
requirements
for each new product, with accountability for capital and expense budgets.
- ✓Critically assess new product charters and financial plans to identify and translate key deliverables, including standard cost and launch requirements.
- ✓Identify, hire, and manage talent needed to validate and release new processes and equipment into production in accordance with Stryker systems and specifications.
- ✓Guide the team through complex or challenging situations by removing obstacles, assigning appropriate resources, and partnering across functions to resolve issues.
Requirements
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- ✓8+ years of technical experience in a product or process development role.
- ✓2+ years of people management experience.
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In this role, you will be responsible for achieving process development milestones across one to two new product introductions (NPIs). You will lead up to eight direct reports with varying levels of experience and oversee a team of engineers responsible for the selection, validation, and verification of novel processes, equipment, and infrastructure used to manufacture catheters, guidewires, and implantable neurovascular devices.
You will have responsibility for large segments of each project, including people management and the technical assessment of associated manufacturing processes, systems, and infrastructure. Additionally, you will grow and develop your team to support the continued growth of Stryker’s Neurovascular division.
Preferred Skills
- +Technical knowledge and experience in polymer extrusion manufacturing, including extrusion process development, polymer selection, and testing.
- +Medical device industry experience.
- +Experience with manufacturing line equipment selection, layout/setup, and IQ/OQ/PQ.
- +Demonstrated leadership, project management, and engineering experience in new product introduction, with a history of bringing products to market.
- +Experience with process mapping, FMEA, DFM, scrap reduction, Lean, and Class 6 cleanrooms would be beneficial.
United States of America Pay Ranges
- •$123,900 - $206,500 USD Annual
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