Staff Engineer - Project Management

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:

Project Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care is recruiting for a Staff Project Manager, located in Jacksonville, Florida.

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 

Staff Project Manager is responsible for executing all phases of site wide capital projects that enable the continuous improvement of our world class manufacturing platforms and supporting systems. You will be directly responsible for leading a variety of projects from concept to delivery and act as the technical lead accountable for scope development, schedule execution, budget adherence with a focus on construction management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable individual for delivering site priority capital projects that span equipment upgrades, product brand conversions, and new line installation/commissioning under minimal supervision.  This role will be the Construction Management SME / Lead for the Capital PMO group and will support MAKE engineering projects at times.

• Establishes project timelines, objectives, priorities, and targets. Responsible for developing project budgets, acquiring bids, preparing funding requests and obtaining Capital Appropriation approval from senior leadership.

• Lead multi-functional teams (internal and external to Engineering) and influence business decisions around optimal scope approaches. Supervise the activities of a multi-disciplined staff that may change in size and composition from project to project.

• Responsible for providing technical interpretation and expertise to ensure adherence to FDA/Safety/Quality policies, good engineering practices, J&J standards, and customer specifications.

• Provide machine design and layout input in project Design Reviews. 

• Communicate design requirements and timelines with E&PS to support new machine installs.

• Coordinate machine installation efforts across multiple resources: Freight Forwarders, Riggers, Mechanical Contractors, Electrical Contractors, E&PS, vendor support, and internal & external project resources.

• Lead daily extended team meetings to coordinate activities during installation, commissioning and validation.

• Participate in project Core Team’s as Mechanical and / or Installation Lead.

• Travel to support machine FAT’s as needed.

• Collaborate with project team & Reliability to identify, set up, provide input to OP/OQ, and procure spare part seed stock.

• Collaborate with Operations to align support equipment needed for new machines. 

• Submit purchase requisitions as needed.

• Collaborate with Engineering & Operations to troubleshoot technical issues as they arise.  Engage local suppliers as needed to provide necessary parts needed to resolve.

• Document construction management best practices and provide coaching to grow capability across the organization. 

• Demonstrates a strong leadership style which refle