Mechanical Engineering Manager Spine Robotics

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About Orthopaedics

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 Orthopaedics Ready to join a team thats reimagining how we heal Our Orthopaedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems. Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports extremities and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at are searching for the best talent to join our DePuy Synthes Orthopaedics team as a Mechanical Engineering Manager based in U.S. (Boston MA; Raynham MA; Warsaw IN; Palm Beach Gardens FL) and EMEA (Gières France; Oberdorf Switzerland; LeedsBeestonEngland and Zuchwil Switzerland).

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The Robotics Mechanical Engineering Manager leads the mechanical engineering function responsible for the design development and delivery of highperformance robotic systems. This role oversees a team of mechanical engineers and works crossfunctionally with systems software electrical controls manufacturing clinical quality and regulatory teams to ensure robust reliable and manufacturable robotic solutions.

The Robotics Mechanical Engineering Manager is accountable for driving mechanical architecture detailed design and integration from early concept through commercialization ensuring designs meet performance safety reliability cost and regulatory requirements. This role combines technical leadership people management and crossfunctional collaboration enabling the successful execution of complex programs in a regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and drive mechanical subsystem requirements ensuring alignment with systemlevel requirements user needs performance targets and regulatory constraints.
• Lead the mechanical architecture and detailed design of robotic mechanisms including articulated linkages precision motion assemblies gearbased transmission systems actuators and structural components.
• Define and review mechanical design concepts trade studies and architecture decisions to balance performance reliability manufacturability cost and serviceability.
• Ensure mechanical designs support controls performance including stiffness backlash friction inertia and dynamic response requirements.
• Design for Reliability (DfR) practices including durability analysis fatigue assessment wear modeling and lifetime testing strategies.
• Design for Manufacturability and Assembly (DfM/DfA) efforts to ensure scalable repeatable and costeffective production.
• Partner with manufacturing engineering to optimize component sourcing assembly processes tolerances and inspection methods.
• Ensure robust design margin and implementation of lessons learned from field data validation testing and postmarket feedback.
• Oversee and guide tolerance stackup analysis ensuring precision requirements are met for kinematic accuracy alignment and functional performance.
• Lead and review thermal analysis including heat generation dissipation thermal deformation and impact on mechanical performance and reliability.
• Ensure appropriate use of analytical and simulation tools (FEA thermal kinematic modeling) to support design decisions and risk mitigation.
• Maintain mechanical design documentation calculations and analysis outputs suitable for design reviews audits and regulatory submissions.
• Collaborate closely with controls electrical and software teams to ensure seamless mechanicalelectricalsoftware integration.
• Ensure mechanical subsystems support control algorithms through predictable dynamics minimized backlash controlled compliance and stable thermal behavior.
• Lead integration activities supporting system bringup troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Support verification and validation (V&V) activities by ensuring mechanical requirements are testable traceable and validated through appropriate methods.
• Participate in and contribute to risk management activities including DFMEA and systemlevel hazard analysis.
• Ensure mechanical risk controls are correctly implemented verified and validated.
• Review test results investigate failures and drive corrective actions for mechanical issues identified during development validation or field use.
• Ensure mechanical designs comply with applicable regulatory and quality standards (e.g. FDA ISO 13485 IEC 60601 standards material compliance).
• Partner with quality and regulatory teams to support design controls audits and regulatory submissions.
• Ensure documentation design outputs and change management comply with quality system requirements.
• Lead mentor and develop a team of mechanical engineers fostering technical excellence accountability and collaboration.
• Assign work set technical direction conduct design reviews and provide coaching to support professional growth.
• Plan and execute mechanical engineering deliverables in alignment with program schedules and business objectives.
• Drive continuous improvement of mechanical engineering processes tools and best practices.
• Stay current with advancements in robotic mechanisms precision gearing actuation technologies materials and manufacturing methods.
• Encourage innovation while maintaining disciplined engineering rigor reliability and compliance.
• For those who supervise or manage a staff responsible for ensuring that subordinates follow all Company guidelines related to Health Safety and Environmental practices and that all resources needed to do so are available and in good condition if applicable
• Responsible for ensuring personal and Company compliance with all Federal State local and Company regulations policies and procedures
• Identify critical paths during product development address bottlenecks and risks and facilitate problem solving across R&D teams.
• Support project resource and schedule planning.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelors or masters degree in mechatronics or mechanical engineering
• 7 years of experience in robotics systems design
• Experience with Class II or Class III medical devices is preferred.
• Knowledge of embedded systems firmware/software testing or electromechanical systems
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and product development lifecycle (e.g. V-model waterfall Agile).
• Experience with requirements management tools (e.g. DOORS Jama Polarion).
• Familiarity with test automation tools and scripting languages (e.g. Python LabVIEW MATLAB).
• Excellent technical writing and communication skills.
• Certification in CQE CQA or Six Sigma is a plus.
• Proficient in sample size calculation and statistical methods for analyzing data.

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone Orthopaedics company operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months subject to legal requirements including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies as may be required regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals.

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