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**Job Function: **
Supply Chain Engineering
**Job Sub Function: **
Manufacturing Engineering
Job Category:
Scientific/Technology
All Job Posting Locations:
Groningen, Netherlands
Job Description:
About Vision 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 on the possibilities of vision treatments? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how vision is improved? Our Vision team solves the toughest health challenges. Help combine cutting-edge insights, science, technology, and people to encourage eye care professionals and patients to proactively protect, correct and enhance healthy sight for life. Our products and services address these needs – from the pediatric to aging eye – in a patient’s lifetime. Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech
Position Overview
The Manufacturing Engineer (Asset Management) owns production capability, equipment reliability, and on-time delivery to safeguard supply continuity and business commitments. The role ensures all production changes and interventions are executed to standard, properly documented, and risk-managed to maintain stable operations. Using structured problem-solving and data-driven decision-making, the engineer improves throughput, reduces waste, and strengthens engineering capability across the supply chain. Working closely with asset management and engineering teams, with a strong focus on technology, equipment development, and control systems, this role leads the rollout of technical solutions to production lines and supports operations with expert troubleshooting when needed.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze and assess product and process requirements (materials, process, quality, EHS, product specifications) and perform risk and root cause analysis
- Develop, improve, characterize and design new or improved processes, equipment or test methods. Define requirements specifications and write (or support the writing of) the necessary supporting documentation (URS, TM, FAT, IQ OQ, PQ) for their implementation.
- Organize engineering, validation and verification studies by setting up a test plan and protocol, test criteria, executing tests, analyzing, interpreting and reporting outcomes as well as identifying and solving technical issues.
- Keep up with relevant engineering methods, tools and technologies in the market and develop, improve, validate and implement new and existing methods, tools, technologies, procedures and protocols, specifically in the field of control systems.
- Plan, organize and evaluate the implementation of new assets & process, including writing, standard operating procedures (SOP’s), protocols and procedures, risk assessments and training of employees.
- Participate as core team member in planning and execution of (parts of) projects, project design reviews and project gate reviews and close projects with predefined effectiveness checks.
- Implement new equipment validation in a way that enable seamless global scaling of those equipment and processes within our organization.
- Report status results and progress of projects and activities in project meetings and/or stakeholder meetings.
- Provide support following implementation, work closely together with other departments, including Operations, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing Engineering.
- Build, generate, maintain and apply knowledge, keep up with developments within Johnson & Johnson, regulations and standards, as well as developing your own expert network within the company.
- Work in a highly regulated environment (e.g., regulatory standards, risk management processes, relevant industry standards, and business requirements) throughout the project lifecycle.
Qualifications & Skills
Education:
- Minimal Bachelor of Science in relevant subject (E.g. Electrical / Systems / Automation Engineering)
Experience and Skills:
**Required: **
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a Manufacturing and/or Industrial Engineering role in medium to high volume manufacturing
- Verbal and written proficiency (at least at B2 level) in English
- Demonstrated knowledge in problem-solving methodology (DOE, Process Capability Analysis, Hypothesis Test Methods)
- Knowledge & application experiences of GMP, GXP fundamentals
- Hands-on mentality and strong collaboration with all teams
- Proven track record as within a medtech, pharma or other highly regulated (cGMP) sector.
- Experience of SCADA system deployment & validation
- You are familiar with change control and are capable and comfortable in conducting validation activity from the creation of CR, URS, VP, etc incl. creating and execution of test protocols, Writing reports of protocol outputs. Up to the closure of VSR and CR with support from validation experts.
Desired:
- Advanced degree (MSc. or PhD) in relevant subject is desired
- Proficient in applying of statistical methodologies and analysis using Minitab.
- Verbal and written proficiency in Dutch
- Six Sigma Certified Green Belt / Black Belt
- Knowledge in high precision machining (lathing and milling)
The anticipated base pay range for this position is 44,700.00 EUR to 70,840.00 EUR on an annual basis and includes 8% holiday allowance.
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**Required Skills: **
Automation, Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP), Manufacturing, System Control
Preferred Skills:
Accelerating, Communication, Detail-Oriented, Execution Focus, Facility Management, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Lean Manufacturing Principles, Lean Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing Science and Technology (MSAT), Problem Management, Project Engineering, Project Management Tools, Project Support, Report Writing, Safety-Oriented, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Application, Technologically Savvy