Production Supervisor
Stryker · Redmond, WA
- Level
- Supervisor
- Team
- Production
- Base pay
- $103k–$171k
- Travel
- 0%
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 4+ years
- Industry
- Medical devices
- Posted
- 8 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level production role at Stryker (medical devices) in Redmond, WA. Maintain a safe work environment and ensure compliance with internal and external regulations, procedures, policies, quality standards, and safety practices.
- They ask for
- 4+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- Lean, Root cause, SAP
- Base pay
- $103k–$171k
- Day to day
- about 0% travel
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How this role compares
Against 21 other live production postings in Washington.
- Base pay
- About 38% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (4+ vs 3+)
Typical $88k–$111k, from 14 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 95%
- ✓ Lean 59%
- 5S 41%
- ✓ Root cause 36%
- Kaizen 27%
- EHS / safety 23%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for SAP, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
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- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Production team at Stryker
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- 2
Send a short, curious note
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- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- The posting says about 0% travel. Between which sites?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
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What You Will Do
- ◆Lead day-to-day production of Class III medical devices, ensuring production, quality, cost, regulatory, and safety objectives are achieved.
- ◆Plan and allocate people, equipment, materials, and systems to meet production schedules and performance targets safely and cost-effectively.
- ◆Develop production schedules and staffing
requirements
based on demand, product introductions, equipment efficiency, and material availability.
- ✓Supervise production team members, including hiring, performance management, coaching, mentoring, and development.
- ✓Build strong relationships with frontline employees, internal customers, suppliers, colleagues, and support teams to achieve business goals.
- ✓Champion change and lead lean and continuous improvement initiatives, including MDI, 6S, root-cause analysis, and corrective action plans.
- ✓Lead daily Management for Daily Improvement (MDI) meetings, review performance against targets, report variances, and drive timely follow-up actions.
- ✓Maintain a safe work environment and ensure compliance with internal and external regulations, procedures, policies, quality standards, and safety practices.
- ✓Support budget planning and effectively manage direct and indirect labor and other production resources.
Required -
- ✓4+ years of relevant
- ✓Bachelors Degree or 6+ in lieu of a Bachelors Degree
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Preferred -
- +Experience in a highly regulated industry
- +Manufacturing experience
- +People Leadership experience
- +SAP is a plus
- +Excel and PowerPoint
- +May be required to wear personal protective equipment
- +May require movement of objects (up to 35 pounds).
$102,700 - $171,100 USD Annual
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