Staff Supplier Engineer - Metals

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

Staff Supplier Engineer focused on metals and machining components for new product development and sustaining production within the Robotics and Digital Solutions franchise. This role involves leading supplier process development, characterization, validation, and scale-up, collaborating with multi-functional teams, and ensuring robust requirements cascade from design to suppliers. The engineer will apply engineering principles, statistics, and risk management to resolve technical challenges and drive supplier improvement using Six Sigma, Lean, and negotiation. Experience in a regulated medical device industry is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and deliver the development, characterization, and validation of metals/machining components and sub-assembly processes at suppliers for new product development (NPD) projects and sustaining production within the Robotics and Digital Solutions franchise.
  2. Lead the scale-up of supplier manufacturing processes to production quantities.
  3. 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 (metals/machining) that are optimized for manufacturing, product performance, and cost.
  4. Apply engineering principles, world-class manufacturing techniques, statistics, and risk management to resolve complex technical challenges.
  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

  • BS degree in Engineering or equivalent
  • Minimum of seven (7) years of meaningful work experience in a regulated industry (medical device industry preferred)
  • Validated knowledge of various metals component manufacturing process development and production validation (ie. machining, metal injection molding, stamping, casting, EDM/ECM, additive manufacturing, etc.)
  • Understanding of engineering drawing interpretation, i.e., GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing) required
  • Excellent knowledge of 21 CFR part 820 and ISO 13485

Nice to have

  • Mechatronics and robotics 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
  • Understanding of Six Sigma Methodologies
  • Solid understanding of regulatory requirements regarding the design, build, and release of medical devices, worldwide

What the JD emphasized

  • regulated industry
  • metals/machining components
  • supplier process development
  • new product development
  • sustaining production
  • scale-up
  • technical solutions
  • risk management
  • supplier management
  • corrective actions
  • root cause analysis