Staff Validation Quality Engineer, New Product Introduction

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:

Quality

Job Sub Function:

Quality Assurance

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Job Description:

We are recruiting for the best talent for Staff Validation Quality Engineer, New Product Introduction to join our Contact Lens Quality organization located 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

The Staff Validation Quality Engineer provides quality and technical leadership to ensure production processes are validated to consistently produce products meeting predetermined quality standards throughout the product lifecycle. The Staff Validation Quality Engineer will lead new product introduction (NPI) validation projects and other projects of various product and subsystem types (instruments/vision, new lines, product improvements, facility upgrades, etc.).  The Staff Validation Quality Engineer will lead more complex validation activities within product, process, equipment, software and facilities changes.  This role will ensure all validation activities are consistent with regulations and validation policies and procedures, establishing validation strategies and requirements that are executed and successfully implemented.  

The Staff Validation Quality Engineer:

• Partners with new product introduction (NPI) project teams to establish a systematic approach to ensuring that a manufacturing process consistently delivers the new product with the intended quality, safety and efficacy.

• Collaborates with functional business partners to proactively address quality issues during new product development and product verification/validation. Ensures process capability with respect to product specifications.

• Develops Validation Implementation Plans (VIPs) that mitigate risks, maintains product integrity and ensures compliance to internal and external standards and regulations.

• Collects and evaluates data from the process characterization/design transfer stage through commercial production, establishing scientific evidence that the process is capable of consistently producing quality products.

• Ensures compliance with current quality system procedures including process validation, computer software validation (CSV), risk management, design controls and CTQ flowdown.

• Adheres to safety and environmental policies and procedures and supports departmental safety and environmental objectives.
   

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads complex validation activities within product, process, equipment, software and facilities changes and ensures all activities are consistent with regulations and validation policies and procedures. Leads projects of various product and subsystem types (New product introduction (NPI) and NPI line propagation