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 https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:

R&D Process Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent to join our Vision team as a Staff Engineer in Research & Development (R&D) Operations located in Jacksonville, FL.

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

Purpose: The Process Engineering team makes exceptional use of our associates' resourcefulness, creativity, and intelligence to develop new processes for contact lens and intraocular lens products in R&D and transfer them to the commercial manufacturing platforms.

You will:

• Find opportunities and unlock new ways to creatively solve business problems that impact processes, capabilities, and project teams.
• Utilize project management skills to provide timely and accurate reporting on project activities to peers and leadership.
• Lead lab-scale and pilot line process characterization of early-stage product and processes.
• Design and implement strategies to scale-up new products and processes on commercial manufacturing platforms.
• Work in a highly technical environment that will involve using process development fundamentals to support corrections, improvements, and risk management.
• Facilitate and drive continuous improvement of equipment / processes and need to be capable of applying a variety of statistical tools to validate process improvements.
• Develop and complete process characterization and optimization using designed experiments, problem solving, modeling and decision-making tools.
• Capture and communicate key learnings from hands-on product development and process engineering projects to stakeholders, project teams, peers, and various internal engineering forums via technical reports and presentations.

Qualifications

Required:

• A Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or science field- specifically, Engineer/Material/Polymer/Chemistry.
• A minimum of 6 years of professional experience in an R&D or Manufacturing environment OR 4 years’ experience with a master’s degree in engineering or science field OR 2 years’ experience with a PhD in an Engineering or Science field.
• Experience in a regulated medical device or pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience with statistical design and analysis of experiments.
• Must be open to up to 25% travel.

Preferred:

• Working knowledge of polymer chemistry.
• Project leadership Training and experience.
• Product and process validation experience.

Other:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills required.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, root-cause, and data analysis/mining skills with a strong attention to detail are advantageous.
• Experience of working within a team, have excellent communication skills and be able to work under their own initiative/self-directed.
• Candidates must be diligent, highly organized, and able to manage multiple tasks.

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 (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is:

$105,000-165,000

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are 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. Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program. Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, 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. https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits

Push the boundaries of science to transform health—and your career.

Join us and advance life-changing treatments for people who need them most. At Johnson & Johnson, our focus is on improving global health equity and developing MedTech and pharmaceutical innovations that impact the future of health. Using AI and robotics to transform surgery or helping data scientists and clinicians formulate new ways to diagnose and treat disease, this work may sound like sci-fi, but it’s all science, all real, and could be your career. Whatever your background, skills, or career goals, there’s a place for you to help solve some of the world’s most pressing health challenges with us.

Accelerate your career while changing the world.

Each of our broadly-based family of companies offers an inclusive and empowering culture and employee benefits (like paid time off to volunteer, transgender-inclusive and same-sex partner health insurance coverage, and more) designed to help you live your best life, however you define it. And our best-in-class learning and development approaches, mentorship, and access to innovators across the world will help you grow your skills and reach your career goals. Because when you're at your best, nothing stands between you and your next breakthrough.