Senior Design Engineer

At Johnson & Johnsonwe believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented treated and curedwhere treatments are smarter and less invasive andsolutions are 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 more at

Job Function:

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:

R&D Mechanical Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Cincinnati Ohio United States of America

Job Description:

About Surgery

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology were developing the next generation of smarter less invasive more personalized treatments.

Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of surgery Ready to join a team thats reimagining how we heal Our Surgery team will give you the chance to deliver surgical technologies and solutions to surgeons and healthcare professionals around the world. Your contributions will help effectively treat some of the worlds most prevalent conditions such as obesity cardiovascular disease and cancer. Patients are waiting.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at internal pre-identified candidate for consideration has been identified. However all applications will be considered.

We are searching for the best talent to join our Lifecycle (Sustaining) Engineering team as a Senior Design Engineer LCE located in Cincinnati OH.

Purpose: As a member of the Lifecycle Engineering team you will join us to lead projects and drive design activities for products currently in the market. You will collaborate with internal and external teams to develop and maintain advanced surgical products within our stapling portfolio and/or energy-based surgical device portfolio within R&D.

What you will be responsible for:

• Ensure design intent is maintained throughout design and manufacturing change projects.
• Work both independently and within teams and with internal & external partners to identify and evaluate potential technical solutions.
• Provide innovative product system and component design solutions to address opportunities related to quality supply chain regulatory compliance and cost savings opportunities.
• Develop and utilize FMEAs GD&T tolerance analysis FEA DOEs simulated use testing and statistical analysis to support medical device/system design changes
• Perform detailed design analysis and provide guidance or approval for design or specification changes
• Establish and execute appropriate testing strategy to ensure adequate safety factors or margins
• Learn medical terminology procedures & instrumentation and assist in responding to surgeon customer feedback.
• Provide peer feedback & mentor junior associates as required.

Qualifications/Requirements:

Education:

• A minimum of a Bachelors Degree in Engineering (preferably mechanical or biomedical engineering) or a related science/engineering degree

Required:

• A minimum of 6 years of experience in product design and/or sustaining engineering maintaining product design intent after launch.
• Strong product design and analysis experience including an understanding of subsystem and component contributions to overall system design and performance
• Experience with statistical analysis techniques
• Experience working in a multi-functional team environment
• Strong problem-solving and execution skills for developing creative solutions and meeting project objectives
• Ability to independently create project plans and manage multiple projects/priorities simultaneously.
• Excellent collaboration strong communication and interpersonal skills; an ability to work effectively with teams
• Ability to Plan communicate execute analyze & document testing including developing and documenting new test fixtures and methods.
• Technical writing skills such as protocols testing results procedures status & special reports
• Experience in Root Cause Investigation proposing and implementing immediate corrections based on findings and leading design or manufacturing improvement projects for long term stability.
• Ability to plan and lead as well as partner with internal resources functional groups (i.e. Marketing Supply Chain etc.) and external companies to complete projects.
• Medical Device industry experience or regulated industry experience
• Flexibility to reprioritize projects and activities to meet business needs.

Preferred:

• Advanced Degree
• Experience with 3D CAD design analysis software and statistical analysis techniques
• Experience with FEA (Finite Element Analysis) and Geometric dimension & tolerance stack-up analysis (GD&T)
• Experience in tooling methodologies material properties (Plastic resins ferrous & nonferrous metals adhesives & sealants).
• Knowledge of plastics metals and coating properties uses and manufacturing processes used in the Medical Device industry.
• Strong understanding of design control and the ability to develop and execute design change plans and design verification testing.
• Experience designing developing and launching products.

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 and 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 email the Employee Health Support Center () or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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Required Skills:

AutoCAD Engineering Engineering Drawings Product Engineering

Preferred Skills:

Analytical Reasoning Auto-CAD Design Business Case Modeling Coaching Design Thinking Mechanical Engineering Problem Solving Process Oriented Product Reliability Project Management Methodology (PMM) Project Support Quality Control (QC) Research and Development Resource Allocation SAP Product Lifecycle Management Technical Credibility Technologically Savvy

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$109650 - $148350

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

The Company maintains highly competitive performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporations performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Companys discretion on an individual basis. This position is overtime eligible. (include if applicable for role) This position is eligible for a shift differential. (include if applicable for role) Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical dental vision life insurance short- and long-term disability business accident insurance and group legal insurance. Employees may be eligible to participate in the Companys consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). This position is eligible to participate in the Companys long-term incentive program. Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation 120 hours per calendar year Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington 56 hours per calendar year Holiday pay including Floating Holidays 13 days per calendar year Work Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year Parental Leave 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child Condolence Leave 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member Caregiver Leave 10 days Volunteer Leave 4 days Military Spouse Time-Off 80 hours Additional information can be found through the link below. This job posting is anticipated to close on January/23/2026. The Company may however extend this time-period in which case the posting will remain available on to accept additional applications