Senior Manufacturing Engineeer

Johnson & Johnson; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join their innovative Surgical Vision team. This role offers a unique opportunity to enhance vision treatments through cutting-edge technology and engineering practices. You will lead projects focused on improving manufacturing processes, ensuring quality, and maintaining compliance with safety standards. If you have a passion for driving improvements in a dynamic environment and possess strong project management skills, this position is perfect for you. Join a team that values innovation and collaboration to make a meaningful impact on patients' lives.

Benefits

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Employee discounts

Flexible work hours

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in electronics and PCB assembly.
• Strong project management skills with a focus on quality and cost.
• Experience in a regulated medical environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects to improve manufacturing processes and quality.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for project success.
• Ensure compliance with global safety and regulatory standards.

Skills

Troubleshooting electronics

Project management

LEAN/Six Sigma

Technical communication

Manufacturing process improvement

Education

BS in Engineering or Technical Discipline

Tools

Project Management Tools

Six Sigma Tools

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 https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function:

Manufacturing Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Milpitas, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join our Surgical Vision team in Milpitas, CA.

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

Position Summary

Reporting to the Manufacturing Engineering Manager, the Senior Manufacturing Engineer (level 25) will lead activities to support the needs of all projects impacting the global raw material and finished goods supply to the Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision (JJSV) business. This portion of the Surgical Vision business within the J&J Family of Companies seeks to address customer needs in the areas of Cataract Surgery and Vision Correction. Projects seek to improve the quality, reliability, and cost of the raw material components of the capital equipment and the manufacturing and assembly of that equipment. The Engineer will possess a high degree of technical competency and project management skills to successfully lead their assigned projects and extended cross-functional team members in pursuit of manufacturing process improvements, root cause investigation and addressing quality elements (NC / CAPA) associated with manufacturing of medical devices. The engineer will drive objectives related to quality, delivery, cost, and design (e.g. process changes, design changes, etc.). The Engineer will possess significant leadership skills enabling them to successful connect to cross-functional peers on and off-site and across the breadth of the JJSV organization in pursuit of the Manufacturing and Supplier Engineering function, and local business goals and priorities. The Engineer is responsible for all normal and expected elements of leading a project including; establishment of milestones and timelines and delivery against them, engagement and leadership of supporting project resources, project budget management, business policy compliance (e.g. EHS&S, etc.), and other generally expected project leadership activities.

Essential Skills / Responsibilities

• Employs their detailed technical knowledge in electronics and PCBA’s, functional testing, assembly processes and techniques, LEAN/Six Sigma tools, and other engineering skills to constantly identify, raise, gain approval, and execute, in collaboration with external and internal partners, to deliver improvement opportunities within the raw material supply chain against targets.
• Focus on reducing scrap and improving yields related to Printed Circuit Boards in manufacturing. Working with supplier to maintain continuity of supply by working to improve highest failures, troubleshooting and testing.
• Evaluation and implementation of electronic components for replacement due to end of life. Will require assessment of PCBA circuity and redesign for DFM of PCB as required.
• Responsible to ensure that all on-market equipment products continue to meet evolving global Safety and Regulatory standards. Assess product changes that may require compliance testing, such as changes due to Component End of Life or to Improve Product Quality.
• Participates in the local cross-functional operational governance process that prioritizes projects across quality, delivery, and cost, assigns cross-functional resources for execution, and provides updates on assigned projects against commitments.
• Leads and/or participates in a wide range of technical projects from the moderately large and complex to smaller activities and tasks, utilizing appropriate Project Management / FPx tools and Six Sigma / Process Excellence tools. Provides guidance and direction to more junior engineers and integrates contracted and other resources. Delivers, through cross-functional coordination, not only the direct technical project activities but also all related regulatory, clinical, marketing, and other actions required to bring the project to market (e.g. a strong end-to-end mindset).
• Leads and/or participates in moderately complex quality and failure investigations involving raw material suppliers or external manufacturers, partnering with the appropriate cross-functional resources and subject matter expertise as required, to identify root cause and implement corrective action. Communicates updates and progress and escalates appropriately.
• Provides guidance and input to leadership as it relates to the ability of external suppliers to maintain adequate capacity to support the demand forecast. Anticipates future constraints and raises, gains approval, and executes activities in advance of any constraints to ensure continuity of supply to customers.
• Leads and/or participates in design changes to existing components and sub-assemblies, in partnership with appropriate design resources supporting lifecycle activities. Partners with R&D to delivery new product introductions, with attention to DFM/A, V&V activities, and pFMEA’s/control plans, ensuring the receipt of a stable and capable process into sustaining engineering for on-going lifecycle technical support.
• Leads and/or participates in raw material and finished goods (F.G.) projects across multiple suppliers and internally where common supply streams exist. Capable of engaging with cross-functional resources remotely and across time zones, cultures, and functions to deliver project objectives.
• Cultivates deep and meaningful relationships for key cross-functional partners including peers in Procurement, Supplier Quality, PLAN, and design, as well as a wide array of extended partners (e.g. plant quality and engineering, regulatory, operations, etc.) to deliver results and solutions, manage risks, and react to issues on assigned projects and activities.
• Maintains and expands personal technical knowledge and skills across multiple process, materials, engineering technologies, and manufacturing techniques to successfully lead a wide array of technical projects and activities.
• Manages the budget for all assigned projects from need identification and justification, through aCAR generation and approval, asset delivery, asset installation & V&V, supplier payment, documentation closeout, and capture of any related savings.
• Maintains relationships with other JJSV Supplier Manufacturing engineers / Project Managers as well as other JJSV functions to engage subject matter expertise on assigned projects as required. Represents a strong technical voice to external suppliers supporting the Milpitas, Ca site in support of the Technical Operations Manager.
• Ensures the JJV Supplier Manufacturing Engineering Director is appraised of all aspects of assigned supplier projects and other activities as risk, issues, urgency, and progress dictate.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a BS degree (or equivalent) in a technical discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant experience (7-10+ years is preferred).
• Significant experience in troubleshooting electronics and printed circuit board assemblies.
• Demonstrated technical project management skills and experience.
• Demonstrated Six Sigma / Process Excellence / LEAN skills and related tool usage (Belt Certification preferred).
• Demonstrated ability to clearly and concisely communicate across multiple organizational levels and functions, directly and remotely, and across global cultures.
• Some level of people management skills through project management relationships.
• Experience in a production environment and experience in a regulated medical industry and all related competencies (e.g. GMP, compliance, processes, etc.) is preferred.
• Local and international travel up to 20% is possible.

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.

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