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**Job Function: **
R&D Product Development
**Job Sub Function: **
Biomedical Engineering
Job Category:
Scientific/Technology
All Job Posting Locations:
Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America
Job Description:
About Orthopaedics
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 the possibilities of Orthopaedics? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopaedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems.
Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery.
Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech
We are searching for the best talent for a Development Engineer, US Orthopedics. The preference is to be based at the Warsaw, IN campus.
Purpose: the Development Engineer would suit an individual looking to further their career as an Engineer in an R&D role within the Medical Devices sector. You will have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of products in a dynamic, fast paced environment, in a role that has a direct impact on the customers and patients, This role is suited to an individual with Product Development experience as it includes all elements of the product development lifecycle for medical devices.
You will be responsible for:
- Design inputs and outputs management, materials selection and biocompatibility, risk management, and verification & validation activities.
- Other typical responsibilities include supporting product testing with protocol and test method development.
- A high level of teamwork across multiple functions and geographies will be required. Proven analytical problem solving and decision-making skills are needed, alongside effective collaboration at all levels within the business.
- Support the development of multiple new product codes with differing technology across external supply base.
- Collaborate with the design team to provide DFX (manufacturing, assembly, and cost) input and enable translation of product design inputs to product and process outputs.
- Development and qualification of complex tolerance analysis for product assemblies.
- Process characterizations, DOE's, and optimizations using statistical techniques.
Qualifications / Requirements:
- A minimum of a bachelor’s degree is required , in Biomedical Engineering, or mechanical in a relevant Engineering subject or similar .
- A minimum of 2 years work experience in a Product Development role is required.
- Engineering design, development and analysis skills.
- Strong project management and communication skills with a proven track record of leading a variety of development projects through to completion is desirable for the role.
- Expertise in the delivery of design history file generation and associated documentation such as technical reports, test reports and risk management.
- Preferred:
- Applied Process Excellence/ Design Excellence, LEAN and Value Engineering experience, formal Green Belt/Black Belt Certification is an advantage.
- Analytical simulation skills with practical use of Matlab or Ansys software being advantageous.
- Own the resolution of complex engineering and manufacturing problems utilizing advanced CAD techniques, rapid and conventional prototyping, and other available technologies.
- Experience working in new product development projects and partnering with design teams
- This position may require up to 10% travel both domestic and international.
Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals.
Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes, and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.
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:
Bioinformatics, Biological Engineering, Biological Sciences, Biostatistics, Data Reporting, Data Savvy, Design of Experiments (DOE), Detail-Oriented, Execution Focus, Feasibility Studies, Preclinical Research, Problem Solving, Process Oriented, Prototyping, Report Writing, Research and Development, Researching, SAP Product Lifecycle Management, Technologically Savvy