Manufacturing Engineering Manager

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.

About the Role

Johnson & Johnson Med Tech is recruiting for a Manufacturing Engineer Manager located in Añasco, Puerto Rico. This role leads and develops a team of manufacturing engineers and technical contributors supporting daily operations, process robustness, yield improvement, equipment reliability, productivity, validation execution, technical investigations, and business-critical engineering initiatives. The position interfaces directly with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, Automation, Facilities, Finance, Human Resources, Supply Chain, global engineering partners, and other functional organizations in a regulated GMP/ISO environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop the Manufacturing Engineering team, ensuring proper span of control, clear priorities, accountability, and effective leadership routines that support engagement, retention, and talent development.
• Establish engineering standards, direction, and governance for manufacturing areas, ensuring effective line-side support, technical escalation, and structured problem solving across value streams.
• Drive operational performance metrics including yield, UPPH, uptime, OEE, process reliability, and productivity through disciplined engineering execution, trend analysis, and risk-based prioritization.
• Lead and execute programs and projects of moderate to high complexity, ensuring safety, regulatory compliance, company standards, operational requirements, financial discipline, and business needs are achieved.
• Provide leadership for root cause analysis, non-conformance investigations, corrective and preventive actions, process characterization, process control improvements, and complex production or processing equipment support.
• Ensure validation strategies and execution are robust, including FAT, IQ, OQ, PQ, computer systems validation where applicable, design reviews, and readiness for regulated manufacturing implementation.
• Build sustainable systems for resource planning, workload management, and project prioritization across day-to-day operations, strategic initiatives, and long-term process improvement work.
• Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, Automation, Facilities, Supply Chain, Finance, Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, and global engineering to align business needs, staffing plans, and execution deliverables.
• Prepare and present business cases, CARs, project estimates, schedules, forecasts, resource plans, and status updates to support timely decisions and leadership alignment.
• Challenge the status quo and promote continuous improvement, technical excellence, standard work, and proactive risk identification across the manufacturing engineering organization.
• Support staffing governance by ensuring roles have clear business justification, impact assessment, role expectations, equivalent pay grade alignment, and required approvals before filling positions.
• Ensure adherence to Standard Operating Procedures, Good Manufacturing Practices, company policies, environmental, safety, occupational health, and applicable federal, state, and local regulations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering is required; advanced degree or business/operations leadership training is preferred.
• Minimum of 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 developing engineers, managing priorities, and leading through influence is strongly preferred.
• Experience in the medical device or pharmaceutical industry is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in project management, financial management, resource planning, and presentation of business cases or CARs is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with GMP/ISO requirements, validation lifecycle, FAT, IQ, OQ, PQ, process characterization, and technical investigations is preferred.
• Experience with optical inspection systems, automated equipment, design reviews with vendors, and equipment/process optimization is preferred.
• Strong communication, cross-functional collaboration, decision-making, coaching, and stakeholder management skills are required.

Schedule

This position requires up to 10% travel and follows a fully onsite attendance policy.