Senior Supplier Engineer

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Santa Clara, CA +1

Senior Supplier Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and validating manufacturing solutions for direct material components and assembly processes within a regulated medical device environment. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and external suppliers to ensure robust manufacturing processes and support product development and production.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and deliver the development, characterization, and validation of plastics components and sub-assembly processes at suppliers for new product development (NPD) projects and sustaining production within the Robotics and Digital Solutions franchise.
  2. Work in a design team setting, collaborating with multi-functional teams (represented by Manufacturing Engineering, R&D, Purchasing, Quality, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Finance) by providing technical solutions to direct material component manufacturing and assembly processes that are optimized for manufacturing, product performance, and cost.
  3. Apply engineering principles, world-class manufacturing techniques, statistics, and risk management to resolve complex technical challenges.
  4. Drive suppliers to continually improve their business and manufacturing process performance to meet business requirements for supplier excellence using a collection of best practices in project management, Six Sigma, Lean, SPC and negotiation by supporting these efforts with minimal managerial guidance at multiple suppliers simultaneously.
  5. Identify, manage, and provide priorities and direction to external suppliers to satisfy manufacturing and development requirements for tooling, manufacturing, and inspections of direct material components.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • minimum of seven (5) years of meaningful work experience in a regulated industry (medical device industry preferred)
  • Understanding of manufacturing process characterization, development, and validation
  • Understanding of engineering drawing interpretation, i.e., GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing)

Nice to have

  • Plastic injection molding
  • Extrusion
  • SMT
  • PCB
  • Electrical Cables
  • assembly
  • Demonstrated project management experience
  • Solid understanding of quality requirements/documents such as statistical process control, capability analysis, FMEA’s, etc.
  • Understanding of product design & DFM/A (Design for Manufacturing & Assembly)
  • Experience with supplier management, supplier qualification/selection, and process improvement with suppliers
  • Root cause analysis

What the JD emphasized

  • regulated industry
  • manufacturing process characterization, development, and validation
  • engineering drawing interpretation, i.e., GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing)
  • 21 CFR part