Senior Supplier Development Engineer – Plastics (Medical Devices)

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Johnson & Johnsonis currently recruiting a Senior Development Engineer located in Irvine CA.

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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 on the possibilities of vision treatments Ready to join a team thats 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 patients lifetime.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at engineering professional who applies scientific knowledge engineering knowledge mathematics and ingenuity to complete assignments related to a specific technical field or discipline.

Technical/Design

• Anticipates future directions. Benchmarks internally and externally. Recognizes changes in the environment and present resources as indicators of future problems and opportunities; prepares for such eventualities e.g. initiates plan to acquire new engineering skills required by changes in technology.

• Independently executes the design of products/processes/equipment/systems/facilities by applying standard engineering theories concepts and techniques within the discipline.

• Independently investigates conducts tests or experiments gathers data and performs preliminary analysis.

• Reports findings. Prepares and communicates recommendations and respective action plans.

Project Management

• Plans and conducts small- to medium-size assigned projects within engineering specialty requiring conventional types of plans investigations and/or equipment.

• Coordinates and monitors activities/projects. Reviews plans and monitors status of implementation for those assigned to project; makes judgments regarding quality of implementation within discipline; employs contingency plans to recover from schedule slippage and financial overruns when appropriate e.g. tracks actual - Facilitates the definition of a project scope with clients.

• Estimates and coordinates resources needed (materials budget time and people) to accomplish assigned individual tasks e.g. coordinates work with technicians and associate engineers; prepares contingency plans and budget for assignments.

• Participates in economic analysis and feasibility studies related to project alternatives. Jointly responsible for achieving the projects financial targets in support of business objectives.

Problem Solving/Innovation

• Creates/modified designs for intermediate problems. Designs/modifies more complex components/processes; writes detailed design specifications e.g. creates a new production flow diagram; modifies an existing design to improve a construction process.

• Predicts patterns/trends. Grasps complexities and sees relationships among data; determines consequences and alternatives; makes recommendations e.g. develops a process improvement for manufacturing; analyzes problems from multiple perspectives.

• Improves methods/designs/processes. Recognizes and implements good ideas/innovations/costs reductions; consistently generates/adopts original solutions to problems and reduces them to practices e.g. implements better methods to reduce component costs; creatively applies others design ideas.

Organizational Interface

• Mentors others by sharing technical expertise and providing feedback and guidance.

• Interfaces primarily with internal company contacts. Communicates infrequently with inter-organizational and outside customer contacts on routine matters.

• Prepares written communication. Conveys information effectively through formal and informal documents with team members designers technicians and other technical personnel both internal and external using appropriate communications protocols e.g. develops proposals conducts reviews; provides audience targeted content; prepares project summaries and design documentation. Obtains approval to proceed with proposed action plans.

• Establishes networks. Follows through on project goals; contributes willingly and incorporates the ideas of others; shares resources knowledge and accountability to benefit the objectives of business e.g. participates in team meetings; serves as a functional expert in design reviews.

• Buildings relationships. Initiates and cultivates open honest relationships with colleagues customers contractors and vendors by establishing rapport developing an understanding of others needs promoting common goals and following through on commitments e.g. offers assistance; interacts effectively with stakeholders at appropriate levels of the organization.

• Resolves underlying problems. Identifies full range of customer/client needs and proposes solutions to address them; makes alterations in products or services to better meet (recognized or unrecognized) customer need e.g. partners with an outside vendor to provide a better deliverable.

Compliance

• Complies with all regulations and standards for quality Environmental Health Safety and Energy (EHS&E) Global Policies Engineering Standards and other governance areas as applicable.

• Ensures quality and effectiveness of assigned tasks.

• Has awareness of the potential consequences (defects and failure modes) of design changes to established processes.

• Identifies areas of risk with respect to compliance.

Additional responsibilities may include

• Coordinates with technical support personnel to conduct prototype or experimental runs of products or processes.

• Works with external manufacturers (EMs) to provide continuity of supply failure investigations and sustaining support.

• Performs tasks such as supplier tooling validations NCR/CAPAs and technical documentation

• Develops writes and executes validation protocols and reports.

• Resolves problems such as production process deviations vendor deviations from specification urgent out-of-stock replacements and crisis situations requiring fast astute decisions with rapid implementation by utilizing technical training and experience.

• Provides training on systems.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of a bachelors degree in engineering and a minimum of five years of significant engineering and/or operational experience is required.

• Plastics Engineering and Biomedical Engineering background highly preferred.

• A working knowledge of Scientific Injection Molding Injection Molding Tool Design Measurement System Analysis Design of Experiments Process Capability Analysis and Injection Molding Qualification is highly preferred.

• Must have experience working with external and sub tier suppliers.

• Medical device experience (21 CFR Part 820 ISO13485) highly preferred.

• Experience in working with External Manufacturers and Sub- Tier suppliers is highly preferred.

• Supplier component validations and processing technical documents (IQ/OQ/PQ)

• This position is located Irvine CA and requires between 20%-40% travel as needed both locally and/or internationally.

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 external applicants please contact us via internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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