Product Development Engineer

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R&D Product Development

R&D Mechanical Engineering

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Johnson & Johnson Med Tech is currently recruiting for a Staff New Product Development Engineer within the Wound Closure and Healing-Biosurgery R&D organization. The position is located in Raritan, New Jersey.

The Johnson & Johnson Med Tech business offers a broad range of products, platforms and technologies including sutures, topical skin adhesives, hemostasis products, surgical staplers, trocars, energy devices and synthetic mesh devices used in a wide variety of open and minimally invasive surgical procedures. Specialties include cardiovascular, orthopedics, support for treatment of colorectal and thoracic conditions, women’s health conditions, hernias, cancer and obesity.

• Provide technical support to multidisciplinary project teams in the design, development, and manufacturing of various devices primarily within the area of wound closure and healing across multiple surgical specialties.
• Serve as a Technical Leader, and/or Subject Matter Expert for one or more projects and/or technical areas.
• Ensure project activities are completed on schedule, within budget, and within compliance while effectively communicating project updates, risks, and issues to internal stakeholders on a timely basis.
• Effectively apply innovative scientific competence and technical leadership capabilities to conduct research toward the design of new products, as well as supporting and improving existing product offerings.
• Play a hands‑on role in designing lab‑based development activities, analyze and interpret results to guide product and process optimization, document research activities in accordance with design control requirements, and direct required research activities associated with development of new materials, components, raw materials, products and processes for wound closure and healing devices.
• Provide technical support to supply chain functions to ensure proper implementation and process controls for manufacturing processes.
• Manage the design and development of research studies (in‑house or with contract or academic laboratories) to explore potential for new products/materials.
• Provide technical support for marketed medical device products to other business functions such as regulatory compliance activities and post‑launch commercial activities.
• Interact with surgeons and other health care practitioners as appropriate to uncover insights and unmet needs through meetings, surgical observations, conference attendance, etc.
• Provide technical expertise, in terms of problem solving for technical and executional problems using advanced knowledge and experience. Contribute inventions, new designs, new processes, and techniques to solve technical problems based on customer needs.
• Identify new areas of opportunity for innovation and secure appropriate intellectual property.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Materials Science, Polymer Science & Engineering, Textile Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of medical device R&D experience.
• Experience with Design Controls principles and global medical device regulations.
• Track record of innovation in developing new products and processes and/or improving existing products and processes.
• Strong background in process engineering and demonstrated understanding of correlating material properties to performance.
• Ability to work in a team‑oriented environment that embraces change, risk, and flexibility and challenges the status quo.
• Strong…