JJV Contact Lens Process Engineering Director

Johnson & Johnson • Jacksonville, FL

7d • Onsite

About The Position

Johnson & Johnson Vision is recruiting for a Director JJV Contact Lens Process Engineering, located in either Jacksonville, Florida or Limerick, Ireland. This role serves as the strategic leader for the global process engineering organization, supporting contact lens manufacturing across Jacksonville and Limerick. The leader is accountable for defining the long-term engineering vision, operating model, governance, and technical roadmap. These elements are crucial for strengthening process capability, improving manufacturing robustness, enabling technology and product transfers, and delivering reliable, compliant, and scalable performance across global manufacturing sites. The role involves setting clear expectations for global process engineering operations, including the consistent use of technical standards, engineering fundamentals, structured problem-solving, process characterization, validation, risk management, lifecycle management, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision-making. A key expectation is to harmonize skills, practices, tools, and ways of working across the global team to ensure consistent talent development, deliberate sharing of best practices, and alignment of site execution to common expectations while meeting local business needs. The successful candidate will build a connected, high-performing global process engineering community, develop current and future technical leaders, and align capability-building priorities with business strategy. The role also requires close partnership with Manufacturing, R&D, Quality, MAKE Engineering, and other global stakeholders, necessitating horizontal and vertical collaboration across the organization, influencing senior stakeholders, creating clarity, and translating strategy into disciplined execution to improve quality, reliability, speed, cost, and long-term process sustainability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Engineering or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 12 years of relevant experience in Process Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Technical Development, R&D, or Quality required.
• Minimum 8 years of people leadership experience required, including coaching, performance management, talent development, succession planning, and organizational capability building.
• Demonstrated ability to set strategy, translate vision into executable plans, and lead cross-site or global technical teams in a matrixed environment required.
• Proven experience standardizing engineering practices, building technical capability, and harmonizing skills, tools, and governance across teams or manufacturing sites required.
• Strong technical knowledge of GMP, regulated manufacturing, process and equipment validation, process characterization, FMEA, risk management, and disciplined engineering practices required.
• Proven ability to solve complex technical problems, deliver measurable continuous improvement, influence senior stakeholders, and lead change across organizational boundaries required.
• Strong communication, collaboration, decision-making, project leadership, and management skills required.

Nice To Haves

• Medical device and/or pharmaceutical experience preferred.
• Six Sigma Green Belt/Black Belt and FPX or PMP certification also preferred.

Responsibilities

• Set and lead the global process engineering strategy, priorities, and technical roadmap across Jacksonville and Limerick to support business growth, quality, reliability, cost, sustainability, and manufacturing performance.
• Harmonize process engineering skills, practices, standards, tools, and ways of working across the global team to improve consistency, scalability, knowledge sharing, and execution discipline.
• Build, develop, and mentor a high-performing global engineering organization, including capability development, succession planning, technical career growth, and future leadership readiness.
• Partner with R&D, Operations, Quality, MAKE Engineering, and global stakeholders to ensure engineering readiness, robust risk management, effective technology transfer, and successful delivery of strategic programs.
• Lead disciplined engineering approaches, including structured problem solving, process characterization, validation, FMEA, troubleshooting, data analytics, and lifecycle management to strengthen process capability and robustness.
• Drive continuous improvement and standardization initiatives that improve quality, reliability, speed, flexibility, and cost effectiveness across manufacturing processes and equipment platforms.
• Ensure compliance with procedures, training, GMP expectations, and prompt identification, escalation, and correction of deviations or emerging process risks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director