Staff Development Engineer (MedTech)

Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America; up to 25% domestic and international travel may be required.

Base pay: $109,000–$174,800 per year.

Company

Johnson & Johnson MedTech develops healthcare technologies, including handheld surgical devices such as staplers, clip appliers, trocars, and sealing devices.

What you will do

• Collaborate with product development teams, equipment suppliers, and manufacturing plants to deliver production solutions from concept through stable production.
• Create assembly equipment requirements and provide design-for-assembly recommendations.
• Develop, debug, characterize, and qualify assembly stations, including Factory Acceptance Testing.
• Document equipment development activities according to medical-device procedures.
• Investigate automation and other manufacturing technologies to improve processes and reduce time to market.
• Coach engineers and support technical mastery, collaboration, and problem solving.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in engineering.
• 7+ years of experience in a dynamic R&D environment focused on production line development.
• Experience developing manual and semi-automated assembly processes for small, complex components.
• Experience with equipment debugging, characterization, Factory Acceptance Testing, qualification, GR&R, and software validation.
• Strong communication, teamwork, influencing, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to execute projects in compliance with GMP, ISO, MDD, and internal procedures.

Nice to have

• Medical-device or other regulated-environment experience.
• Six Sigma or process excellence knowledge.
• Vision systems, controls development, or automated assembly equipment experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive work environment focused on employee dignity, diversity, and equal opportunity.
• Retirement pension and 401(k) savings plans.
• Long-term incentive program.
• Vacation, sick time, holidays, personal and family time, parental, bereavement, caregiver, volunteer, and military spouse leave.
• Opportunity to contribute to new product development and grow professionally.