Staff Systems Engineer

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Position Summary

The Staff Systems Engineer within the Reprocessing business will play a key technical role in the development of complex medical devices. In this position, you will provide deep systems engineering expertise, drive high‑quality execution, and influence product design across multidisciplinary teams. This person will have the opportunity to work cross functionally with multiple engineering disciplines and will be a technical stakeholder within the system level reviews, while working within the project constraints of schedule, cost, performance, quality, and reliability objectives.

Note: “Staff Systems Engineer (52832), Hybrid role requiring 3 days onsite at STERIS Headquarters in Mentor, Ohio.”

What You'll do as a Staff Systems Engineer

• Serve as a technical resource in systems engineering and support the development of system architecture and technology approaches.
• Translate stakeholder needs into clear system and subsystem requirements, ensuring quality, safety, reliability, and usability considerations are fully addressed.
• Coordinate and execute Systems Engineering activities including feasibility studies, trade‑off analyses, system integration, verification, and validation.
• Contribute to risk management, defect resolution, and usability assessments throughout the product lifecycle.
• Collaborate closely with cross‑functional engineering, project managers, and quality/regulatory partners to ensure product and compliance requirements are met.
• Identify obstacles and help drive technical problem‑solving to keep projects on track.Promote consistent engineering practices and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within R&D.
• Mentor engineers, share systems engineering best practices, and support training and knowledge development across the team.

The Experience, Abilities and Skills Needed

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering is required
• Minimum of 10 years of related experience required
• Minimum 8 years of experience systems engineering in R&D for medical devices
• Minimum 8 years of experience supporting NPD/LCM programs
• Ability to work in a highly regulatory environment
• Strong analytical skills
• Exposure to project / program management skills required
• Must have excellent leadership, interpersonal and influencing skills and have a demonstrated ability to lead global, cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teams. Demonstrated leadership skills including conflict resolution, assertiveness and negotiation skills required.
• Demonstrated proficiency in driving continuous improvement for performance, quality, time and cost; strong planning and organization skills required.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound data driven business decisions; Understand, track, drill down and question activities and issues in all functional areas. Strong attention to detail, follow-through skills
• Sets the standard for timeliness, work ethic, and personal integrity
• Must have excellent written communication skills – reports, presentations
• Exceptional team player
• Travel up to 5% including internationally.

The Preferred Experience, Abilities and Skills

• 8+ years experience developing FDA regulated medical devices
• Masters in Engineering Discipline, MBA
• Experience in more than one of the following functional areas: Operations, Supply Chain, Quality
• Experience in LEAN Methodologies
• Experience with Finite Element Analysis and simulation tools

What STERIS Offers

At STERIS, we invest in our employees and their families for the long term! STERIS wouldn’t be where it is today without our incredible people. We share our success together with you by rewarding you for your hard work and achievements.

Here is just a brief overview of what we offer:

• Competitive Pay
• Extensive Paid Time Off and (9) added Holidays.
• Excellent healthcare, dental, and vision benefits
• 401(k) with a company match
• Long/Short term disability coverage
• Parental Leave
• Additional add-on benefits/discounts for programs such as Pet Insurance
• Continued training and educations programs
• Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career
• #LI-KS1 #LI-Hybrid

Pay range for this opportunity is $122,187.50 - $150,937.50. This position is eligible for bonus participation.

Minimum pay rates offered will comply with county/city minimums, if higher than range listed. Pay rates are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to local labor market costs, years of relevant experience, education, professional certifications, foreign language fluency, etc.

STERIS offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits portfolio. Click here for a complete list of benefits: STERIS Benefits

Open until position is filled.

STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law. We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.