MQSA Scientist II

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Job Function:

Quality

Job Sub Function:

R&D/Scientific Quality

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for an MQSA Scientist II to join their team in Raynham, MA.

On October 14, 2025, Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals.

It is anticipated following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes, and your employment would be governed by Orthopaedics employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. Details of any planned changes would be provided to you by Orthopaedics at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.

The Scientist II, Microbiological Quality & Sterility Assurance (MQSA) position is responsible for individual contributor execution of end-to-end implementation of contamination control and sterility assurance policies and strategies for MedTech Orthopedics and will assure that local programs are aligned with the overall J&J Microbiological Quality & Sterility Assurance policies. This role will support the MQSA responsibilities in Raynham, MA.

The Scientist II will serve as a technical contributor in the areas of microbiological quality, contamination control, cleaning, and sterilization. They will execute activities to support product manufacturing activities, product development, lifecycle management, and event resolution. They will contribute through the application of technical knowledge and expertise in contamination control, microbiological quality, aseptic processing, and sterilization processing. This position is responsible for compliance to applicable Quality Regulations and standards.

This is not meant as an all-inclusive list but top-level list of duties that this person generally completes. It is also understood that an associate may receive special projects outside of this list.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Under supervision and in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws/regulations and Corporate Johnson & Johnson, procedures and guidelines, this position:

R&D –

• Provide input for the following for increasing complexity projects:
• Design for cleanability
• Design for decontamination
• Design for sterilizability
• Drive selection of sterilization modality, validation approaches and validation of the sterilization process.
• Generate sterilization product adoptions and validation documents. 
• Support the implementation of new innovations in the areas of contamination control, terminal sterilization, and reprocessing, to include such activities as in participating in development of new products
• Provide support in the development of design history files and regulatory submissions to ensure compliance to applicable regulations and standards internationally

Plan –

• Support the selection of new manufacturing operations (to include manufacturing sites and facility investments, contract sterilization & laboratories, and third-party manufacturers)

Source –

• Provide sterility assurance and microbiological quality support for procurement activities that relate to sterile, non-sterile, or products requiring microbiological control that are externally manufactured
• Provide input in the design of new manufacturing processes, controlled environments and packaging from a microbiological, terminal sterilization and reprocessing standpoint
• Provide input for the design of critical utility systems and controlled environments to ensure that sterility assurance and microbiological quality requirements are maintained.