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Job Function:

Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function:

Project Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care is recruiting for a Staff Project Engineer, Vendor Management, located in Jacksonville, Florida.

About Vision

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

Staff Project Engineer, Vendor Management is responsible for coordinating all phases of engineering vendor communication as it relates to executing site wide capital projects that enable the continuous improvement of our world class manufacturing platforms and supporting systems. You will be the primary point of contact for technical vendor communication, coordination and delivery of procured equipment for capacity projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable individual for maintaining coordinated vendor build strategies to meet new capacity programs, under minimal supervision.

• Utilize experience with formal project management tools to ensure execution to best practices around budget development, resource management, and schedule creation.

• Lead multi-functional teams (internal and external to Engineering) and influence business decisions around optimal scope approaches.

• Responsible for providing technical interpretation and expertise to ensure adherence to FDA/Safety/Quality policies, good engineering practices, J&J standards, and customer specifications.

• Lead and maintain appropriate Business Reviews with key manufacturing vendors.

·         Work closely with Capital Projects Teams to meet business goals.

• Demonstrates a strong leadership style which reflects the standards and expectations outlined in the Johnson & Johnson Credo.

Qualifications

Education:

• A bachelor’s degree: life sciences, engineering, or business management specialization is required.

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• At least 4 years’ experience with direct accountability over multi-functional teams delivering capital projects to plan within a manufacturing environment.

• Demonstrated experience with budget ownership and direct accountability of capital investments in excess of $1MM. Able to effectively communicate methods for developing budgetary estimates and obtaining capital appropriations through a formal approval process.

• Able to effectively communicate formal project methodologies around the key areas of project management.

• Experience providing direction to both internal and contract project team members and driving tactical execution to project milestones.

• Experience owning the installation, commissioning, and validation activities for automated process equipment in a regulated medical device industry. This includes familiarity with FDA regulatory standards and Good Manufacturing Practices.

• Experience developing budgets and business case proposals that led to acquiring capital appropriations in excess of $1M USD.

• Proven track record of effectively forecasting project cash flows and actively managing spend to achieve accurate results against forecast.

• Familiar with Process Safety Management and Process Hazard Analysis for equipment installations and qualifications within PSM governed areas.

Other:

• This position could have up to 50% travel both domestic and/or international.

• Certification in a Project Management framework is preferred.

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 https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers, internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Coaching, Collaborating, Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA), Critical Thinking, Customer Centricity, Feasibility Studies, Lean Supply Chain Management, Organizational Project Management, Problem Solving, Project Engineering, Quality Assurance (QA), Regulatory Compliance, Relationship Building, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Application, Scientific Research, Supply Planning, Technologically Savvy