Senior Consumables 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 Mechanical Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Irvine, California, United States of America

Job Description:

About Vision

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

We are searching for the best talent for a Senior Consumables Engineer in the R&D Consumables group based in Irvine, CA.

Purpose: The Senior Consumables Engineer in the R&D Consumables group contributes to development of innovative consumable technologies and products to solve customer problems and satisfy unmet patient needs. Works with minimal supervision to provide mechanical engineering and design services in the R&D engineering group. Develops concepts, designs and details for machines, tools, fixtures, and products. Assures successful execution of new product and process design, development, and transfer activities. Champions functional excellence in development and leads the implementation of the latest/best design technologies such as simulation, and rapid prototyping. May work on projects involving more than one engineering field and involving engineering teams from other functional areas. Leads small to medium sized projects.

You will be responsible for:

• Implements sophisticated design concepts and ideas into working blueprints and drawings
• Inspects and leads all aspects of testing of prototypes, tools, and fixtures after fabrication to ensure that they meet specifications.
• Generates prototypes, evaluates and provides positive feedback on concepts and design modifications based on key stakeholder input.
• Performs hands-on and simulated testing for design verification and test method development.
• Conducts functional and performance testing of products to ensure that the product and its components meet the required specifications
• Works with R&D, operations, marketing, regulatory and supply chain stakeholders to design for manufacturability and cost improvement strategies.
• Identifies issues and communicates status to peers and managers.
• Able to analyze data using statistical tools and derive conclusions.
• Leads efforts to generate, review, and approve drawings and design control documentation.
• Leads efforts to generate, review and approve documentation for Test Systems and Validations of Test Equipment
• Applies sound engineering principles and practices to the design and testing of medical devices.
• Works with and provides oversight to suppliers on the design and procurement of components, tooling and fixtures for the design, testing, inspection or assembly of products.
• Supports design control review meetings to ensure completion of required project goals, and coordinate activities with multi- functional team members on action items.
• May receive technical guidance on the most unusual or complex problems but independently resolves and develops approaches to solutions.

Qualifications:

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical engineering, Biomedical, or a related subject area
• 4 years of related R&D engineering experience or equivalents (M.S