Development Engineer

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 Med Tech, 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.

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Supply Chain Engineering

Process Engineering

Scientific/Technology

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Irvine, California, United States of America, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting a Staff Development Engineer
, located in Irvine, CA
. with consideration of other J&J offices.

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

• An engineering professional who applies scientific knowledge, engineering knowledge, mathematics, and ingenuity to complete assignments related to a specific technical field or discipline.
• Works under general supervision who reviews results for overall accuracy, completeness, and soundness of technical judgment.
• Identifies and quantifies technical risks and their consequences relative to the success of part of a project; recommends appropriate action, e.g. reports calculations and recommendations in terms concrete enough for management to make an informed decision.
• Decisions or recommendations would typically achieve department/project objectives.
• Drives functional performance that ensures the highest standard in quality, customer service, and regulatory compliance are met.

• Anticipates future directions. Benchmarks internally and externally. Recognizes changes in the environment and present resources as indicators of future problems and opportunities; prepares for such eventualities, e.g. initiates plan to acquire new engineering skills required by changes in technology.
• Independently executes the design of products/processes/equipment/systems/facilities by applying standard engineering theories, concepts, and techniques within the discipline.
• Independently investigates, conducts tests or experiments, gathers data, and performs preliminary analysis.
• Reports findings. Prepares and communicates recommendations and respective action plans.

• Plans and conducts small- to medium-size assigned projects within engineering specialty requiring conventional types of plans, investigations, and/or equipment.
• Coordinates and monitors activities/projects. Reviews plans and monitors status of implementation for those assigned to project; makes judgments regarding quality of implementation within discipline; employs contingency plans to recover from schedule slippage and financial overruns when appropriate, e.g. tracks actual - Facilitates the definition of a project scope with clients.
• Estimates and coordinates resources needed (materials, budget, time and people) to accomplish assigned individual tasks, e.g.…