
Senior Engineer, Quality Assurance
Stryker · Portage, MI
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Quality
- Base pay
- $78k–$130k
- Travel
- 20%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 2+ years
- Certification
- Green Belt preferred
- Industry
- Medical devices
- Posted
- 3 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior quality role at Stryker (medical devices) in Portage, MI. Lead product field action assessments from initiation through review and approval, ensuring complete, accurate, and timely documentation.
- They ask for
- 2+ years · degree required · Green Belt preferred
- Tools it names
- Six Sigma, Green Belt, Root cause, ISO 13485, FDA / GMP
- Base pay
- $78k–$130k
- Day to day
- about 20% travel
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in Michigan: typical posted base $78k–$149k. This one lists $78k–$130k.
Median of the low and high ends of 19 live postings that list pay, out of 57 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 56 other live quality postings in Michigan.
- Base pay
- About 14% below similar roles
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (2+ vs 4+)
Typical $86k–$154k, from 18 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 4+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 70%
- FMEA 53%
- PPAP 49%
- SPC 46%
- Control plans 44%
- ✓ Six Sigma 40%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for FDA / GMP, Union environment, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: Stryker in Portage
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Full description from StrykerAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
What you will do
- ◆Lead product field action assessments from initiation through review and approval, ensuring complete, accurate, and timely documentation.
- ◆Investigate complex product quality issues using structured problem-solving, root cause analysis, and statistical evaluation methods.
- ◆Perform post-market health risk assessments and health hazard evaluations to assess potential product and patient safety risks.
- ◆Develop containment recommendations and corrective actions based on investigation findings, risk assessments, and quality data.
- ◆Author and manage nonconformance and corrective and preventive action records, including defined deliverables, action owners, timelines, and supporting documentation.
- ◆Coordinate investigation and corrective action reviews with Research & Development, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Quality, Marketing, Service, and supplier teams.
- ◆Represent Quality Assurance processes during internal and external audits and maintain compliance with applicable quality system, risk management, and post-market requirements.
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in science, engineering, or a related discipline.
- ✓Minimum 2 years of experience in quality assurance or customer quality.
- ✓Experience working in a regulated industry, such as medical devices or aerospace.
- ✓Experience conducting post-market quality assessments.
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓Master’s degree in science, engineering, or related discipline.
- ✓Experience conducting product field actions.
- ✓Experience working with ISO 14971, ISO 13485, 21 CFR Part 820, and European Union Medical Device Regulation requirements.
- ✓Six Sigma Green Belt certification or experience with formal investigative techniques.
$77,700 - $129,500 USD Annual
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