Staff OT Manufacturing Engineer (Shockwave)

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States of America; travel to manufacturing sites is required as needed.

Base pay: $109,000.00–$174,800.00 per year.

Company

Johnson & Johnson MedTech develops healthcare and medical technology solutions, including products supported by regulated manufacturing operations.

What you will do

• Design, program, deploy, and support PLC, PAC, HMI, and SCADA control systems for manufacturing processes.
• Lead OT implementation for processes, tools, and fixtures, including requirements, specifications, vendor deliverables, commissioning, ramp support, and training.
• Execute IQ/OQ/PQ validation for control systems, sequencing logic, and MES/SCADA integrations while maintaining regulatory documentation.
• Integrate OT with MES, ERP, and PLM systems, including data handshakes, batch records, recipes, data migration, and electronic-record integrity.
• Implement segmented OT networks and manage cybersecurity risks, vulnerabilities, patching, access controls, and incident response with IT and cybersecurity teams.
• Troubleshoot production control issues, perform root-cause analysis, manage corrective actions, and improve automation reliability, throughput, and scalability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Controls, Automation, Mechatronics, Computer, or Mechanical Engineering; a master’s degree is preferred.
• At least 8 years of manufacturing engineering experience, including 3–5 years of hands-on OT/control systems experience in regulated environments.
• Advanced experience with PLC, HMI, and SCADA platforms such as Rockwell, Siemens, Schneider, Ignition, FactoryTalk, or Wonderware, plus IEC 61131-3 programming languages.
• Experience integrating OT with MES, ERP, and PLM systems, including ISA-95, recipe and batch management, historians, alarms, events, OEE, and Cpk reporting.
• Knowledge of industrial networking and OT security, including VLANs, managed switches, industrial firewalls, secure remote access, patch management, IEC 62443, and NIST guidance.
• Strong experience with validation documentation, vendor and integrator management, commissioning, FAT/SAT, technical specifications, SOPs, and cross-functional leadership.

Nice to have

• IEC 62443, GICSP, ISA, vendor-specific PLC/HMI, PMP, or other relevant certifications.
• Experience with OSIsoft PI or other historian implementations and cloud-based OT analytics platforms.
• Medical device or pharmaceutical manufacturing experience, including audits and regulatory submissions.
• Six Sigma or Lean certification and experience using Cpk, SPC, Minitab, or similar statistical methods.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in an inclusive environment guided by the company’s Credo and focused on healthcare innovation.
• Collaborate with R&D, Quality, Production, IT, Supply Chain, and Regulatory stakeholders.
• Support manufacturing operations for on-market medical products in a regulated environment.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, compliance, reliability, and process performance.