Senior Manager, Engineering Deliver Americas

6032-DePuy Synthes Sales Legal Entity • Mooresville, NJ

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

Johnson & Johnson MedTech – Supply Chain is recruiting for a Senior Manager, Engineering – Americas Deliver Excellence, MedTech Supply Chain. At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at http://www.jnj.com/. About MedTech Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Your work will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Requirements

• Minimum eight (8) years of relevant professional work experience Engineering experience, with a proven track record of managing multi-site distribution automation, robotics, or complex control systems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, and coach professional engineering teams.
• Well-developed presentation and cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to manage stakeholders across international borders.

Nice To Haves

• Project management experience and familiarity with FPX, Six Sigma, or Lean methodologies
• Expert-level knowledge of GMP principles, qualification/validation approaches, safety regulations, and working within regulated (GxP/FDA/ISO) environments.

Responsibilities

• Direct and manage the Americas engineering organizational footprint, providing strategic leadership to the North American and Latan American Engineering teams.
• Act as the single point of contact for the Director, synthesizing regional updates and removing cross-border operational silos to establish a unified engineering front.
• Oversee the hiring, training, motivation, and professional development of engineering staff across the Americas; mentoring, challenging, and structuring the team to build regional leadership capacity.
• Foster and encourage inclusiveness, diversity, and collaborative knowledge-sharing between NA and LATAM facilities to replicate engineering breakthroughs and elevate weaker operational nodes.
• Serve as the primary Engineering stakeholder and authority in early-stage decision-making, architectural design, and project inception meetings for major capital projects, cloud migrations, and global initiatives (e.g., EWM, Transcend).
• Integrate Warehouse Control/Execution Systems (WCS/WES), Enterprise Warehouse Management (EWM), and Material Handling Equipment (MHE) requirements early in the project lifecycle to eliminate design gaps and prevent late-stage vendor remediation rushes.
• Drive the long-term adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies, ensuring that regional digital and automation solutions successfully enable intelligent automation on the shop floor and support a touchless Order-to-Cash (O2C) digital flow.
• Provide proactive technical management and leadership to deliver safe, efficient, and reliable facilities, equipment, and preventative maintenance schedules across all regional Distribution Centers.
• Design, implement, and champion advanced testing frameworks—including "Test Box" interface simulation environments and "Dual Mode" parallel processing—to allow thorough system validation without forcing operational downtime or taking production lines offline.
• Remediate localized infrastructure vulnerabilities by deploying dedicated site-level tools, such as debug servers and scanner hardware test benches, empowering local teams to troubleshoot independently.
• Establish strict engineering documentation standards, ensuring critical facility assets (such as standard label drawings) are authored, maintained, and readily accessible across all regional sites.
• Partner with 3PL or internal maintenance teams to develop robust processes, systems, and metrics for maintaining equipment effectiveness, spare parts optimization, and maintenance repair budgets across the Americas.
• Serve as the senior technical authority and Point of Contact (PoC) for Warehouse Execution Systems infrastructure, Engineering Operational Technology (OT) systems, PLCs, Robotics, and Vision Systems.
• Manage the implementation of Machine Safety standards through rigorous WRAPS assessments on-site and ensure the seamless execution of technical remediation plans.
• Support Quality and Operations in maintaining the qualified, validated, and compliant state of all GxP, GMP, FDA, and ISO-regulated equipment and systems.
• Partner directly with OT Cybersecurity governance structures to safeguard connected infrastructure across both regional footprints.
• Develop comprehensive regional business plans, project timelines, and master budget control metrics using standardized project management methodologies (e.g., FPX).
• Partner with Quality, IT, Operations, and third-party logistics (3PL) providers to plan future capacity and process improvements in support of new products and the company's strategic growth plan.
• Monitor regional engineering workloads and strategically manage a pipeline of external contractors and vendors to scale detailed execution capacity during peak project demands.
• Optimize internal engineering focus by identifying and offloading administrative and financial workflows (such as Purchase Order routing and procurement tracking) to supporting business units.

Benefits

• Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
• 10 days Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

What This Job Offers

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