Senior Lifecyle 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:

Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function:

Process Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Plymouth, Minnesota, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Senior Lifecyle Engineer to join our Sterilmed team, located in Plymouth, MN.

About MedTech

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Purpose:

We are offering a fantastic opportunity for an engineer to join our team and play a vital role in sustaining engineering projects of currently in production. By collaborating with other functional groups you will be responsible for lifecycle engineering production changes. This includes cost improvements, design and labeling changes, business growth equipment deployments, and but not limited to technical support for production issues.

This engineer will be engaging with our external manufacturer to drive these changes as a project leader and as technical support with expertise in all events or issues that need to be resolved.

Some of the Senior Lifecyle Engineer activities will include the management of change, encompasses decisions regarding scope of work, evaluating resource needs, change timing, and any required equipment or tooling. Day to day activity involves heavy collaboration with R&D, Equipment Development team, and other functional teams.

At Sterilmed, we are recognized as authorities in medical device reprocessing, focusing primarily on high-complexity devices such as electrophysiology and imaging catheters. This role will involve some travel between our manufacturing, distribution, and receiving sites located in the metro-Minneapolis area.

A Day in the Life

• Collaborates multi-functionally to resource lifecycle activities resulting in projects plans and transfers

• Plan, schedule, conduct, and coordinate detailed phases of engineering work

• Validation of processes and equipment including all protocols and reports

• Develop, validate, and maintain test methods

• Applying problem-solving, root cause investigation, and decision-making skills.

• Lead project multi-functional teams using project management skills

• Develop process changes and conduct in-depth feasibility studies

• Write easily understandable production work instructions, and training associates

• Application of statistical tools such as DOEs, process controls, and six sigma with programs such as Minitab

• Manage NCs and CAPAs through investigations and the implementation of correction, corrective, and preventative actions

• Participate in the development of your peers Lifecycle Management skills

• Commitment to build a positive culture

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering or Scientific field degree

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• Minimum of 5 years of increasingly responsible product/process engineering experience

Preferred:

• Prior experience in the medical device or highly regulated industry preferred

• 7 years of engineering experience with increasing responsibility

• Experience collaborating with multi-functional teams and fostering conflict resolution when needed

• Track record of completing projects on time and accomplishing goals

• Abiltiy to handle multiple priorities in fast-paced environment

Other:

• This position will be located in Plymouth, MN, and will require up to 20% of local travel

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