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The Senior Engineering Manager, Equipment Engineering, is responsible for leading the contact lens manufacturing equipment engineering organization. This role provides strategic and operational leadership for design, reliability, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement of manufacturing equipment across lens production processes.
The position is accountable for developing and executing equipment strategies that improve safety, quality, compliance, capacity, reliability, and cost performance while enabling future business growth at our Manufacturing Facility in Johns Creek, GA. Specifics include:
- Leads engineering managers, engineers, and technical specialists, oversees capital and automation investments, drives equipment standardization and technical governance.
- Partners closely with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Product Engineering (MS&T) and global engineering teams to deliver sustainable manufacturing excellence.
- Building organizational capability, developing future engineering leaders, and ensuring the equipment engineering function remains positioned to support current production demands and long-term manufacturing strategy.
Key areas of ownership include:
- Contact lens manufacturing equipment and platforms
- Equipment reliability, OEE, and asset lifecycle management
- Automation and robotics systems
- Production support on escalation and equipping production and maintenance teams to maintain equipment
- Capital projects, automation, and technology deployment
- Including Smart Technology initiatives (Industry 4.0/5.0) – AI/ML
- Technical standards, equipment governance, and compliance
- Engineering talent development and succession planning
- Manufacturing capacity expansion and continuous improvement
- Cross-functional alignment with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, and Supply Chain
- Equipment-related risk management and business continuity planning
WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO ALCON:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +15 yrs; Assoc.+11 yrs; M.S.+4 yrs; PhD+3 yrs)
- The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English
- 7 Years of relevant experience
- 5 Years of demonstrated leadership
- Location: Onsite
- Travel Requirements: Up to 10%
- Relocation Assistance: Yes
- Sponsorship Available: No
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE AT ALCON:
- Collaborate with teammates to share standard processes and learnings as work evolves!
- Join Alcon’s mission to provide top-tier, innovative products and solutions to enhance sight & enhance lives.
- Grow your career in a highly collaborative and diverse environment.
- Alcon provides robust benefits package including health, life, retirement, flexible time off for salaried associates, paid time off for hourly associates and much more!
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Alcon takes pride in maintaining an inclusive environment that values different perspectives and our policies are non-discriminatory in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of directly related experience
- Fluent English reading, writing, understanding, and communication
- 7 years of relevant experience
- 5 years of demonstrated leadership experience
- Onsite work at the Johns Creek, Georgia manufacturing facility
Alcon Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Alcon and has not been reviewed or approved by Alcon.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are framed as unusually strong, pairing a 401(k) match with an additional employer-funded retirement plan contribution. Stock purchase access and performance bonuses are also positioned as meaningful components of total rewards.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive across medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and mental health support. Distinctive vision-related perks, including free contact lenses in some cases, reinforce the perceived strength of the health-and-wellness offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are characterized as robust, including paid holidays, PTO/vacation, paid sick time, and parental leave. Flexible time off for certain exempt roles and reported year-end shutdown periods further strengthen perceived coverage.
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What We Do
Alcon helps people see brilliantly. As the global leader in eye care with a heritage spanning more than seven decades, we offer the broadest portfolio of products to enhance sight and improve people’s lives. Our Surgical and Vision Care products touch the lives of more than 260 million people in over 140 countries each year living with conditions like cataracts, glaucoma, retinal diseases and refractive errors. Our more than 20,000 associates are enhancing the quality of life through innovative products, partnerships with eye care professionals and programs that advance access to quality eye care.
