Staff Operational Excellence 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:

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is hiring for a Staff Operational Excellence Engineer to join our team located in Santa Clara, CA.

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/.

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Ready to join a team that’s pioneering the development and commercialization of Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) to treat complex calcified cardiovascular disease. Our Shockwave Medical portfolio aims to establish a new standard of care for medical device treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease through its differentiated and proprietary local delivery of sonic pressure waves for the treatment of calcified plaque.

Position Overview

The Staff Engineer, Operation Excellence will be responsible for leading the development of new manufacturing process and technologies for new products introduction, and manufacturing process improvements for commercial products, incorporating Design Excellence and Continuous improvement though the application of Industrial Engineering and Lean Six Sigma programs. The goal is to ensure optimal customer satisfaction, program efficiency, and financial effectiveness.

Essential Job Functions

• Implement activities across the Santa Clara organization that ensure the use of operational excellence tools and strategies to:
o Develop new manufacturing process and technologies for new products introduction. o ensure waste-reduction and improvement initiatives on commercial product portfolio.
• Lead process development projects using Industrial Engineering and Design Excellence concepts.
• Lead engineering problem solving and process improvement projects using best practices, ensuring accountability and completion.
• Work with New Product Development team to effectively design the manufacturing process and technologies to meet customer demand and financial effectiveness.
• Works with operations teams to identify potential projects, assess feasibility, and implement solutions.
• Collaborating with the leadership team to identify and drive value opportunities and to ensure production and operation challenges are well understood and are resourced for resolution.
• Collaborate with business teams to review processes and identify/implement opportunities for improvements applying Lean Six Sigma concepts & tools.
• Identify opportunities for cost reduction and work to improve cost performance.
• Collect data and analyze process performance indicators to ensure business efficiency and quality requirements.
• Communicate the status and issues of the projects to the organization in a timely, clear, and appropriate manner.
• Identify potential operational risks and support the areas in the development of strategies to mitigate them.
• Support deployment of holistic operational excellence program for Shockwave Medical in alignment with Global Operations.
• Coaching Design excellence and lean six sigma tools and techniques to help the team to analyze data effectively, identify problems, and drive process improvements.

Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering discipline (Industrial Engineering preferred)
• Minimum of eight (6-8) y