Senior Manager, Manufacturing Engineering

Antler; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting a Senior Manager, Manufacturing Engineering for the Vision Care team in Jacksonville, FL. This role leads engineering activities at the Implants site, guiding technology deployment and process improvements for intraocular lens products.

Reporting to the Global Implant Platform Engineering leadership, you will drive safety, cost efficiency, and quality with a hands-on, strategic approach in a regulated medical device environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required.
• Minimum of eight years of experience in life sciences (medical devices, biotech, pharma).
• Experience leading multifunctional engineering teams in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain manufacturing strategies and technology roadmaps.
• Lead site engineering projects and capital planning with ROI focus.
• Ensure GMP compliance and quality systems across the site.

Skills

Leadership

Manufacturing

Process Development

Capital Projects

Regulatory Compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

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.

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function

Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function

Manufacturing Engineering

Job Category

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations

Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Job Description

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Senior Manager, Manufacturing Engineering, to join our Vision Care team in Jacksonville, FL.

About Vision

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 on the possibilities of vision treatments? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how vision is improved? Our Vision team solves the toughest health challenges. Help combine cutting‑edge insights, science, technology, and people to encourage eye care professionals and patients to proactively protect, correct and enhance healthy sight for life. Our products and services address these needs – from the pediatric to aging eye – in a patient’s lifetime.

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

Purpose

Reporting to the Surgical Vision Global Implant Platform Engineering Senior Director, this role drives the engineering and technology activities for the Implants manufacturing site in Jacksonville. The role also actively contributes to Implant Platform Engineering initiatives. The Senior Manager provides strategic and operational leadership to the Supply Chain Manufacturing Engineering organization. Accountable for developing and deploying engineering strategies and technologies that support Implant products for intraocular lenses. Senior Manger combines strategic vision with a hands‑on approach to manufacturing and supply chain engineering. The role is a member of the Jacksonville Implant Site Leadership Team and the Global Implant Platform Engineering Leadership Team.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Innovation and Technology Management

• Develop and maintain a pipeline of manufacturing strategies and technologies that improve product quality, manufacturing cost, and operational efficiency for new and existing products.
• Evaluate the strategic rationale, investment requirements, development timing and expected return on investment for engineering projects.
• Establish and govern a manufacturing equipment asset management program covering the full asset life cycle, from specification through obsolescence, while balancing technological capability.
• Apply recognized operational excellence methods, including Lean and Six Sigma, to improve throughput, yield, reliability, availability, operational safety, and total cost of ownership of manufacturing equipment and production operating technology (OT) systems.
• Own and lead site engineering technology roadmap that enable transformational process development.

Business Results and Compliance

• Build and sustain a quality‑focused culture and ensure compliance with current Good Manufacturing Practices and applicable Quality System requirements as defined in the Quality Manual.
• Champion machine, electrical and behavioral safety across the engineering organization.
• Responsible for capital long‑range financial planning and reporting status and health of the site capital plan to stakeholders.
• Accountable for site engineering projects execution.
• Define, monitor, and achieve engineering performance metrics, with effective plans in place to drive continuous improvement.
• Sustain a strong sense of purpose and accountability within the engineering organization.

People Leadership and Talent Development

• Act as a Credo leader and constructively challenge existing paradigms to deliver breakthrough improvements aligned with the strategic business plan.
• Engage, empower, and coach a highly capable team. Collaborate across the wider enterprise to enable year‑over‑year growth, process simplification, and technology development.
• Build organizational capability through selection, recruitment, development, and performance management of engineering talent.
• Lead resource allocation across multidisciplinary programs to ensure delivery of agreed business priorities and objectives.
• Establish clear team and individual goals, measure performance against those goals, and ensure exceptional service to internal and external customers.
• Ensure performance appraisals, mid‑year reviews, and development conversations are completed on time. Provide timely, direct, and constructive feedback, including in difficult situations.
• Provide overall direction and governance for manufacturing engineering activities in Jacksonville.
• Integrate site engineering priorities with Implant Platform Engineering objectives and cross‑functional business priorities.
• Ensure appropriate process development and validation practices, including the use of design of experiments and statistical analysis.
• Be responsible for equipment maintenance strategies and asset life‑cycle decisions to support safe, and reliable operations.
• Develop robust technical business cases and translate approved strategies into clear execution plans and measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Science, or a related subject area.
• Minimum of eight years of relevant business experience, including at least five years in a life sciences industry such as medical devices, biotechnology, or pharmaceuticals.
• Experience in conceptual manufacturing equipment and process development, design and implementation, project planning and scheduling, and management of capital projects.
• Experience with leadership of multifunctional engineering teams in an FDA‑regulated or comparable regulated environment,
• Proven experience developing business cases in a technical environment and delivering significant, measurable industrial improvements.
• Solid understanding of process development and validation, design of experiments, statistical analysis, and equipment maintenance.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Certifications/licenses And Affiliations

• Strategic leadership capability combined with a flexible, hands‑on working style.
• Strong influencing and stakeholder‑management skills across functions, sites, and organizational levels.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving capability, with ability to resolve technical, design, resource, and delivery issues.
• Sound judgment to make timely decisions on technical and management matters.
• Confirmed capability to lead, manage, coach, and develop an engineering organization.
• Excellent planning, prioritization, and interpersonal skills.
• Discretion and sound handling of confidential information, including external‑party interactions, product development strategies, and regulatory matters.

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.

If you are under 18 years of age you (the candidate) may need to obtain the necessary working papers or other documentation required by state law to start the assignment, as well as get a parent’s consent for the background check

Preferred Skills

Change Leadership, Developing Others, Facility Management, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Lean Manufacturing Principles, Lean Supply Chain Management, Managing Managers, Manufacturing Compliance, Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing Flow Management, Manufacturing Science and Technology (MSAT), Performance Measurement, Predictive Maintenance, Product Design, Report Writing, Safety-Oriented, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Application, Strategic Thinking