Manager, Instruments & Accessories Design Integration

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:

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:

Multi-Family R&D Product Development

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson MedTech is recruiting for a Manager, Instruments & Accessories Design Integration, within our Robotics & Digital Solutions organization. The location for this position is Santa Clara, CA.

At Johnson & Johnson Robotics and Digital Solutions, we’re changing the trajectory of health for humanity, using robotics to enhance healthcare providers’ abilities and improve patients’ diagnoses, treatments, and recovery times. Johnson & Johnson Robotics was established in 2020 with the integration of Auris Health, Verb Surgical, C-SATS, and Ethicon. It comprises three key med-tech platforms: Flexible Robotics (MONARCH®), Surgical Robotics (OTTAVA™), and Digital Solutions. Join our collaborative, rapidly growing teams in the San Francisco Bay Area (Redwood City and Santa Clara), Cincinnati, and Seattle. You’ll collaborate on breakthrough medical technologies that unite multiple subject areas to build a connected digital ecosystem that advances medical professionals’ skills and improves patient outcomes.

Johnson & Johnson MedTech is developing a robotic surgical platform that will set a new standard for the modern OR and transform the surgical experience. OTTAVA is designed as a multi-specialty soft-tissue surgery robot, activating the benefits of AI/ML, connecting health data inside the operating room and out.

Overview:

The Manager, Instruments & Accessories Design Integration will provide functional leadership for a group of talented and versatile engineers working in a matrix environment to create the best-in-class surgical devices for the OTTAVA Surgical Robot. The Instruments and Accessories Design Integration Team is responsible for implementing the framework and processes to integrate, operate, and troubleshoot instruments on the incredibly complex Johnson & Johnson OTTAVA Robotic Systems within the R&D organization.  You will lead a team consisting of engineers and technicians that will maintain multiple configurations of instruments to support the R&D testing environment, troubleshoot and resolve known issues, document novel issues that arise during use, and partner with Instrument Design functions to evaluate and improve instruments under development.  Applicants should have experience working with complex electromechanical systems but need not have a technical background in robotics. This is a phenomenal opportunity for someone with an interest in medical robotics to gain deep technical and industry knowledge, while providing a critical service to the OTTAVA program.

Core Job Responsibilities:

• Lead the I&A Design Integration Team including functional leadership, HR responsibility, budget and planning to support project teams.

• Support talent development including developing technical and leadership skills as well as clinical understanding.

• Develop strategies and solutions in a fast-paced environment that ensure a comprehensive evaluation of device performance.

• Lead and/or support initiatives to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency including test and process improvements.

• Lead and /or support innovation projects targeted to a specific business need.

• Lead and/or support technical root cause investigations leading to recommended plan of action

• Collaborate with cross functional partners to advance/accelerate R&D projects.

• Engage third party suppliers as needed to support R&D needs.

• Collaborate with Design and Manufacturing Engineering to deliver cost efficient and innovative products and processes.

• Collaborate with regulatory partners to ensure accuracy and alignment of strategies in support of device submissions.

• Hire and grow team according to business plan. Partner with recruiters for hiring and employe