Staff Engineer

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:

R&D Process Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent to join our Vision team as a Staff Engineer in Research & Development (R&D) Operations located in Jacksonville, FL.

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: The Process Engineering team makes exceptional use of our associates' resourcefulness, creativity, and intelligence to develop new processes for contact lens and intraocular lens products in R&D and transfer them to the commercial manufacturing platforms.

You will:

• Find opportunities and unlock new ways to creatively solve business problems that impact processes, capabilities, and project teams.
• Utilize project management skills to provide timely and accurate reporting on project activities to peers and leadership.
• Lead lab-scale and pilot line process characterization of early-stage product and processes.
• Design and implement strategies to scale-up new products and processes on commercial manufacturing platforms.
• Work in a highly technical environment that will involve using process development fundamentals to support corrections, improvements, and risk management.
• Facilitate and drive continuous improvement of equipment / processes and need to be capable of applying a variety of statistical tools to validate process improvements.
• Develop and complete process characterization and optimization using designed experiments, problem solving, modeling and decision-making tools.
• Capture and communicate key learnings from hands-on product development and process engineering projects to stakeholders, project teams, peers, and various internal engineering forums via technical reports and presentations.

Qualifications

Required:

• A Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or science field- specifically, Engineer/Material/Polymer/Chemistry.
• A minimum of 6 years of professional experience in an R&D or Manufacturing environment OR  4 years’ experience with a master’s degree in engineering or science field OR 2 years’ experience with a PhD in an Engineering or Science field.
• Experience in a regulated medical device or pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience with statistical design and analysis of experiments.
• Must be open to up to 25% travel.

Preferred:

• Working knowledge of polymer chemistry.
• Project leadership Training and experience.
• Product and process validation experience.

Other:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills required.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, root-cause, and data analysis/mining skills with a strong attention to detail are advantageous.
• Experience