Senior Product Management Engineer

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 jnj.com

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Supply Chain Engineering

Process Engineering

Scientific/Technology

Plymouth, Minnesota, United States of America

Johnson & Johnson Sustainability Solution (Sterilmed) is seeking a Senior Product Management Engineer for our Plymouth, Minnesota location.

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 jnj.com

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

The Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies (JJMDC) are committed to helping health systems reduce expenses and decrease environmental impact while meeting or exceeding OEM medical device functional requirements. Offering reprocessed single-use devices manufactured by Sterilmed, Inc., a part of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, is one way in which we fulfill this commitment.

As a leading provider of reprocessing services, in addition to reprocessing devices originally manufactured by members of the JJMDC, we also offer reprocessed products from the other original manufacturers, to provide customers with more options to meet their needs.

Are you passionate about reprocessing to reduce medical waste? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we reprocess medical devices? Our team will give you the chance to deliver reprocessing solutions to customers. Your contributions will help effectively reduce medical waste through reprocessing.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

This role focuses on managing and leading cross functional teams to transfer New Reprocessed Medical Devices into production. The position partners closely with R&D, Quality, Technical Lifecycle Management and External Manufacturer to design reliable, repeatable processes and/or equipment to ensure high-quality production through data-driven analysis, validation, and troubleshooting.

The role also includes process development, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of manufacturing processes, along with authoring and maintaining validation and documentation to support regulated environments.

• Serve as project manager of a multifunctional team to drive new product development activities from production readiness to launch.
• Plans validation strategies and owner of Master Validation Plan for New Product Introduction.
• Proposes and determines new or improved technologies to enhance product quality, manufacturing cost efficiencies, personnel safety and regulatory compliance.
• Oversees timely completion of pilot operations consistent with new product production activities of the department.
• Work closely with research and development team to develop processes that are manufacturable for new product.
• Develops project scopes, budgets and schedules for assigned projects and develops engineering specifications and documentation for manufacturing equipment.
• Ensures equipment is qualified/validated and supports safety and environmental initiatives.
• Develop and validate test methods for reprocessing of assigned devices.
• Reviews and edits all engineering documentation related to assigned projects, such as technical reports, work instructions and validation.
• Familiar with all aspects of medical device product development, including design, verification and validation, FDA submission, and design transfer into manufacturing.
• Author, revise, train, and provide support for production work instructions.
• Responsible for communicating business-related issues or opportunities to next management level

• BS or MS Degree in Biomedical, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum of 4 to 6 years of increasingly responsible product/process engineering experience
• Experience with DOE, FMEA, GMP, and QSR
• Experience in the medical device industry
• Solidworks knowledge preferred
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project
• Ability to work within an ISO structured quality system
• Good planning, multi-tasking, and project management skills
• Ability to function independently as well as part of a team
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• May require up to 10% of domestic and/or international travel
• The attendance policy required for this role is hybrid (2 days remote and 3 days onsite)

Agile Decision Making, Coaching, Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA), Critical Thinking, Emerging Technologies, Issue Escalation, Lean Supply Chain Management, Problem Solving, Process Control, Process Engineering, Product Costing, Product Improvements, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Application, Situational Awareness, Technical Research, Technologically Savvy, Validation Testing, Vendor Selection