Director, R&D Equipment Engineering | Jacksonville, FL

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 jnj.com.

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Job Function:

R&D Operations

Job Sub Function:

Multi-Family R&D Operations

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Jacksonville, Florida, 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 Director, R&D Equipment Engineering to join our J&J Vision team.  This position is based in Jacksonville, FL.

Purpose:

The Director, R&D Equipment Engineering provides strategic direction and leadership to the teams that are accountable for R&D equipment engineering activities. This leader develops and executes the strategy to ensure development of prototype products, processes, equipment, enabling technologies, and engineering services to deliver new contact lens and IOL products. Provides strategic and technical leadership to develop new technology solutions. Translates organizational objectives into clear goals and priorities. This leader directs a variety of engineering projects utilizing a wide range of engineering principles. The Director leads engineers or engineering managers who support engineering projects to support delivery of R&D priorities. In addition to R&D priorities, this leader collaborates across the organization to ensure engineering best practices are developed, shared, and deployed. The leader is accountable for all aspects of the end-to-end R&D Product Supply Chain including budgeting, staffing, capital planning, and scheduling in a highly dynamic R&D environment.

This role will interface and influence the senior leadership team, R&D Platform teams, Ophthalmic Materials, Regulatory Affairs, QA, Marketing, MAKE and Supply Chain to ensure the Engineering team is supporting the global organization. The Director takes a lead position in activities with outside vendors from beginning of design process through feasibility and start-up processes.  Adheres to environmental policy, procedures, and supports department environmental objectives. Engages in Credo-based decision-making.

You will be responsible for:

• Lead a cross functional, diverse team that is accountable for management R&D engineering activities.
• Develop and execute the strategy to further the advancement of engineering principles and best-in-class R&D operations principles to deliver the new product and new process pipeline.
• Interface across all facets of the R&D organization. Partners, collaborates, and prioritizes with other key R&D leaders to effectively deliver against goals and objectives.
• Forecast and anticipate key resource needs and future development opportunities to support new product / process development. Develops justifications to acquire resources / funding.
• Develop and execute the talent strategy to ensure professional development across the R&D Engineering organization. Provides mentoring and development opportunities.
• Oversee departmental resource allocations, planning, and budgeting.
• Develop and manage the R&D Equipment Roadmap.  Align with stakeholders across the organization.
• Perform other related duties as assigned by management.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry or related technical field is required.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience is required.
• People management experience is required.
• Proven leadership skills including motivating, negotiating and providing direction in a team environment.
• Demonstrated record of completed engineering projects and/or launching products.
• Ability to motivate internal and external resources to meet project objectives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Up to 10% business travel may be required.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. 

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Analytical Reasoning, Clinical Trials Operations, Data Management and Informatics, Developing Others, Ethical and Participant Safety Considerations, Inclusive Leadership, Industry Analysis, Laboratory Operations, Leadership, Research and Development, Research Documents, Risk Management, Safety-Oriented, Stakeholder Engagement, Technical Credibility, Use of Laboratory Equipment