Senior Designer - CAD
Stryker
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Portage, MI · Posted October 14, 2026
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About the job
Work Flexibility: Onsite
Senior Designer - CAD
Portage, MI
Join a team focused on transforming engineering concepts into detailed designs, drawings, fixtures, and equipment that support product development and manufacturing. In this role, you will work closely with engineering and manufacturing teams to create and maintain design documentation, ensuring compliance with quality standards, regulatory requirements, and manufacturability expectations.
What You Will Do
Create and revise layouts, engineering drawings, fixtures, and equipment designs using CAD and related design software.
Translate engineering specifications and design inputs into detailed models and documentation that support manufacturing and quality requirements.
Review engineering drawings and supporting documentation to verify compliance with company standards and industry requirements.
Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams to evaluate designs for functionality, durability, integrity, and manufacturability.
Analyze technical documentation and resolve design details not fully defined within specifications.
Submit engineering drawings and associated documentation through established document control and approval processes.
Coordinate with suppliers to support component, tooling, and system acceptance activities.
Contribute to prototype assembly, testing, design analysis, process improvements, and training of team members on design-related topics.
What You Will Need
Required Qualifications
Associate degree in Engineering Graphics, Engineering Technology, Manufacturing Technology, or a related technical discipline; or technical certification with minimum 10 years of relevant experience
Minimum 4 years of CAD or engineering design software experience.
Experience creating and maintaining engineering drawings, models, and technical documentation.
Experience utilizing CAD software for mechanical, electrical, or product design applications.
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Graphics or a related engineering discipline.
Experience using Creo CAD software.
Experience supporting manufacturing, tooling, fixture, or equipment design projects.
Experience working within regulated quality systems and document control processes.
$72,500 - $120,900 USD Annual
Travel Percentage: None
Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.
Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.