Staff Scientist, R&D Process & Materials Characterization

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:

Materials/Biomaterials Science

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 Scientist, R&D Process & Materials Characterization located in Jacksonville, Florida.

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: We are recruiting a strong individual contributor will have responsibility for the development and implementation of new process and materials characterization techniques, new equipment identification or development, and test method development within the R&D Operations platform. The individual will drive innovation of soft materials characterization. This person will work as a technical expert in a highly collaborative environment and will use fundamentals of materials science, polymer chemistry, physical chemistry, and engineering to drive innovation, facilitate improvements, implement corrections, and lead risk management and mitigation. The individual will lead the development of new instrumentation and measurement techniques (both internal and external collaborations) to investigate the role of monomer and polymer compositions on final in vitro material properties and performance of Class II and Class III medical devices. Successful characterization and optimization of new materials, methods, and measurement techniques using designed experiments, problem solving, and decision-making making tools are critical to ensure efficient development.

You will:

• Project Management - provide timely and accurate reporting on project activities to peers and leadership.
• Coordinate multi-functional teams of scientists, engineers and/or technicians as necessary to achieve project completion.
• Lead research assignments involving projects of major magnitude and scope.
• Pursue opportunities to unlock new ways to creatively and innovatively tackle business problems that impact processes, material and method capabilities, and the team.
• Excel at a high technical expertise level involving planning development and design of materials, equipment, processes, and/or methods within lab and pilot scale environments.
• Present at internal forums and publish in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
• Develop patent protected science-based innovations to enhance visual performance
• Collaborate with other scientists and engineers to accelerate development and launch of products by creating novel material characterization methods necessary to develop next-generation ophthalmic materials.
• Work with third party suppliers, external collaborators, and an interdisciplinary technical team.
• Apply design of experiments; data acquisition, analysis, and interpretation; conduct literature and patent searches; organization and assimilation of literature search results.
• Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills required.
• Have strong analytical approach to problem solving to deliver innovative solutions.
• Track, trend, develop, and implements equipment and/or method improvements that will increase method capability, efficienc