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Job Function:
Supply Chain Manufacturing
Job Sub Function:
Plant Management
Job Category:
People Leader
All Job Posting Locations:
Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America
Job Description:
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We are searching for the best talent for a Director, Integrated Engineering and Maintenance Planning to join our team in Raritan, NJ.
This position is a duration-based role and requires understanding that the anticipated duration may conclude at, prior to, or after 12 months (based on business needs) from one’s start date in this role.
An internal pre-identified candidate for consideration has been identified. However, all applications will be considered.
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicines and Legend Biotech have entered into a global, strategic collaboration to develop, manufacture, and commercialize a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for BCMA. This strategic partnership is designed to combine the strengths and expertise of two companies to advance the promise of an immunotherapy CAR-T platform treatment.
Summary:
The Director, Integrated Engineering and Maintenance Planning provides network-level leadership for the planning, governance, and execution readiness of major site shutdown activities at the Raritan CAR-T manufacturing site. This role serves as the senior integrator across engineering, maintenance, manufacturing, quality, EHS, supply chain, value chain, and commercial business partners to ensure shutdown strategies are aligned to business priorities, operational requirements, and compliance expectations. The position is accountable for orchestrating critical workstreams, enabling timely executive decisions, and ensuring the site is prepared for disciplined ramp down, shutdown, and start up execution with minimal risk to supply, quality, and business continuity.
The candidate must be comfortable working in a matrixed environment, both within Johnson & Johnson and with our CAR-T collaboration partner, Legend Biotech.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic leadership for integrated planning and execution readiness of major site shutdowns, ensuring alignment across scope, timeline, resourcing, risk, and business priorities.
- Lead multiple complex, cross-functional workstreams related to shutdown planning and execution, establishing clear governance, accountability, and decision-making frameworks across the organization.
- Serve as the senior integration point across site and above-site functions, ensuring a cohesive and execution-ready shutdown plan.
- Engage and influence senior business partners, including VP-level leadership, by driving executive governance, enabling critical decisions, and aligning on priorities, trade-offs, and mitigation approaches.
- Drive communication, scenario planning, and decision-making in partnership with commercial leadership to align shutdown timing, supply impacts, and recovery strategies with enterprise and customer needs.
- Collaborate closely with site engineering leadership to ensure effective ramp-down, shutdown, and start-up strategies, supported by well-defined readiness criteria, contingencies, and recovery plans.
- Oversee integrated shutdown schedules, critical path analysis, resourcing strategies, and execution scenarios to optimize site performance and minimize disruption.
- Ensure shutdown planning and execution comply with cGMP, safety, quality, and regulatory standards, supported by robust risk management, escalation, and governance processes.
- Establish an executive communication framework that provides clear visibility into status, risks, key decisions, and overall execution readiness for site and enterprise leadership.
- Lead post-shutdown performance reviews, capture lessons learned, and drive continuous improvement to strengthen future shutdown planning and enhance operational resilience.
Qualifications
Education:
- Minimum of a Bachelor's degree required; an Advanced degree in engineering, operations, business, or a related field is preferred.
Experience and Skills:
Required:
- A minimum of 12 years of relevant experience in engineering, maintenance, manufacturing operations, or large-scale program leadership, including significant leadership experience within a matrixed environment.
- Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional planning and execution initiatives with enterprise-level visibility, including governance of critical path activities, risk management, and stakeholder alignment.
- Extensive knowledge of cGMP, safety, quality, and applicable technical and regulatory standards within a regulated manufacturing environment.
- Strong business and financial acumen, with the ability to evaluate trade-offs, support investment decisions, and manage budgets in compliance with financial and SOX requirements.
- Proven ability to engage and influence executive business partners, including senior site, enterprise, and commercial leaders, to drive timely, high-quality decision-making.
- Preferred experience includes shutdown or turnaround planning, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), asset management, process excellence, and large-scale readiness or transformation programs.
Experience, Skills & Knowledge:
- Executive presence with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization and operate effectively in highly visible, high-stakes environments.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity and complexity while aligning diverse stakeholders around a common strategy and execution plan.
- Strong strategic planning capabilities, including development of critical path analyses, scenario planning, and risk-based decision frameworks.
- Proven track record of leading transformational or business-critical initiatives in matrixed, regulated, and operationally complex environments.
- Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to navigate difficult decisions and competing priorities.
- Ability to build strong, credible partnerships internally and across the Johnson & Johnson and Legend Biotech collaboration model.
- Sound judgment and decision-making in time-sensitive situations, with the ability to balance operational urgency with longer-term strategic priorities.
- Strong business acumen and systems thinking, with the ability to connect site execution plans to broader supply, commercial, and enterprise objectives.
Other:
- This position may require 5-10% domestic and international travel
- This position is a duration-based role and requires understanding that the anticipated duration may conclude at, prior to, or after 12 months (based on business needs) from one’s start date in this role.
Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Agile Manufacturing, Business Planning, Developing Others, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Manufacturing Compliance, Manufacturing Safety, Organizational Project Management, Organizing, Plant Operations, Process Improvements, Strategic Supply Chain Management, Tactical Planning
The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$150,000.00 - $258,750.00
Additional Description for Pay Transparency:
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
• Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits
