Senior Manager, Components Engineering, R&D - MedTech

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com

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Job Function:

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:

R&D Mechanical Engineering

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Job Description:

About Surgery

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of surgery? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Surgery team will give you the chance to deliver surgical technologies and solutions to surgeons and healthcare professionals around the world. Your contributions will help effectively treat some of the world’s most prevalent conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Patients are waiting.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

We are searching for the best talent for a Senior Manager, Components Engineering, R&D – MedTech to support our handheld medical devices business. This role will be located in Cincinnati, OH & work a Flex/Hybrid schedule with 3 days per week on-site.

Our business offers a broad range of products and technologies, including surgical staplers, clip appliers, trocars and sealing devices—that are used in a wide variety of minimally invasive and open surgical procedures.

Purpose:

The Senior Manager, Components Engineering, R&D, will lead a to lead a newly formed Component Development Engineering Team for its Handheld Instrument business. In this role, the candidate will perform as a functional people leader; responsible for building, leading, and sustaining a high-performing component development engineering organization. This position focuses on people leadership, technical direction, capability building, execution excellence and innovation across multiple development engineering disciplines. To be successful in this role, the candidate will need to have to leverage their significant related technical experience while partnering closely with project, quality, manufacturing, supply chain, and clinical stakeholders to ensure business objectives are met The role does not have direct capital expenditure or budget ownership but will have a heavy influence on delivering business objectives of reduced capex for component tooling / assembly equipment and expense spending and improved component costing (COGS).

You will be responsible for:

• Serve as the functional manager for Component Development Engineering Team, providing technical leadership and oversight across manufacturing engineering disciplines such as Injection Molding, Extrusion, Machining, Metal Injection Molding, Stamping, PCBAs, Electro Mechanical Fabrication and light assembly.
• Establish and reinforce engineering best practices, standards, and development methodologies related to development of medical device components and associated validation activities such as IQ/OQ/PQ, Gage R&Rs, Control Plans, PMFEAs, Process Characterization (DOEs) and Process Capability (Ppk / Cpk).
• Provide technical guidance and problem-solving support for complex development challenges for the business.
• Act as a technical escalation point for development issues impacting financials, quality, safety, or performance.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of 8–12 full time engineers and up to 5 contractors.

• Conduct performance management, goal setting, coaching, and career development planning.
• Identify skill gaps and drive development through mentoring, training, and hiring as needed.
  Build functional communities of practice and subject matter expertise.
• Partner with the broader J&J Surgery organization to leverage synergies and drive efficiencies
• Partner with Leaders cross functionally to identify and fulfill resource needs to deliver on business priorities and commitments across NPD Projects.
• Provide resourcing input, risk identification and prioritization recommendations as needed.
• Ensure engineering deliverables meet device performance, quality, financial and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee all NPD development activities for the function including design reviews, risk management (FMEA), verification / validation support, engineering testing strategies, and statistical analysis.
• Ensure team compliance with design controls and quality / regulatory system requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering execution and documentation quality.
• Develop innovative & technical solutions and leverage external partnerships to advance technology for our materials of construction and manufacturing processes.
• Accelerate and improve team outcomes by leveraging and deploying modeling and simulation techniques across the function.
• Implement “Design to Value” principals across team to reduce the gap between current cost of goods sold (COGS) and the “should-cost” target for new product projects.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Biomedical, Manufacturing, or related discipline) is required. An advanced degree is preferred.
• Minimum of 8+ years of progressive engineering experience in component development activities across a wide variety of technologies such as metals, plastics and electro-mechanical components and sub-assemblies is required.
  Experience in validation activities such IQ/OQ /PQ or PPAP is required.
• Experience in component process development, characterization and validation in a regulated industry is required.
• Experience in general DF(X) - Design for Manufacturing, Molding, Assembly, etc. is required.
• Experience in Risk Management – PFMEAs, parallel pathing, dual sourcing strategies etc.
• Strong organizational and communication skills are required.
• Strong foundation in data analytics and statistical understanding is required.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience leading high performing engineering teams is required.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with internal and external suppliers to achieve outcomes
• Experience in cost engineering, supply chain management and materials management/development is preferred.
• Experience in medical device industries strongly preferred.
• Experience in new materials development strongly preferred
• Six Sigma Certification (DMAIIC) strongly preferred.
• Direct experience working in manufacturing is strongly preferred.
• Up to 20% travel is required both international and domestic.

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, please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Collaborating, Contract Management, Design Thinking, Developing Others, Fact-Based Decision Making, Feasibility Studies, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Mechanical Engineering, Product Development, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Research and Development, Resource Allocation, SAP Product Lifecycle Management, Scope Management, Team Management, Technical Credibility, Vendor Management

 

 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$137,000.00 - $235,750.00

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)).

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