Manufacturing Engineering Manager (MedTech)

Location: Añasco, Puerto Rico, United States; fully onsite. Requires up to 10% travel.

Company

Johnson & Johnson MedTech develops innovative, less invasive, and personalized healthcare and vision treatments.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop the manufacturing engineering team while establishing priorities, accountability, and leadership routines.
• Set engineering standards and governance for manufacturing areas, including line-side support, escalation, and structured problem solving.
• Drive yield, UPPH, uptime, OEE, process reliability, and productivity improvements through trend analysis and risk-based prioritization.
• Lead manufacturing engineering programs and projects, ensuring safety, regulatory compliance, financial discipline, and operational delivery.
• Direct root-cause analysis, non-conformance investigations, corrective and preventive actions, process characterization, and equipment support.
• Develop resource-planning and project-prioritization systems and partner with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, Automation, Facilities, Supply Chain, Finance, Human Resources, and global engineering.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required.
• At least 8 years of relevant experience in manufacturing engineering, maintenance manufacturing, process development, R&D, automation, or regulated manufacturing operations is preferred.
• People leadership or demonstrated technical/team leadership experience is required.
• Experience with GMP/ISO requirements, validation lifecycle, FAT, IQ, OQ, PQ, process characterization, and technical investigations is preferred.
• Strong communication, cross-functional collaboration, decision-making, coaching, and stakeholder management skills are required.
• Medical device or pharmaceutical industry experience, project and financial management, resource planning, optical inspection, automated equipment, and process optimization experience are preferred.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a regulated GMP/ISO manufacturing environment with a focus on technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Support is provided for physical, mental, emotional, and financial health programs.
• Employment requires proof of COVID-19 vaccination or an approved accommodation before starting.
• Inclusive and equal-opportunity workplace.