Operations Process Engineering Manager/Surgical Robotics-OTTAVA

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Job Function:

Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function:

Process Engineering

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson RAD (Robotics and Digital) is seeking for a Operations Process Engineering Manager – OTTAVA, for our Santa Clara, Location.

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 https://www.jnj.com/ (https://www.jnj.com/.

About MedTech Surgery

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 the possibilities of surgery? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Surgery team will give you the chance to deliver surgical technologies and solutions to surgeons and healthcare professionals around the world. Your contributions will help effectively treat some of the world’s most prevalent conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Patients are waiting.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Purpose:

The Operations Process Engineering Manager is accountable for establishing and leading the OTTAVA Operations Process Engineering function for regulated medical capital equipment manufacturing. The manager translates product and business requirements into capable, controlled, scalable manufacturing processes and leads the team responsible for process ownership, production support, process validation, continuous improvement, and manufacturing readiness.

This foundational role requires a hands-on people leader who can create operating structure in a high-growth environment, make risk-based decisions with cross-functional partners, and convert evolving priorities into compliant, measurable, execution-ready plans.

The ideal candidate combines process-engineering rigor, mechanical and electromechanical manufacturing experience, quality-system fluency, and practical leadership needed to industrialize, sustain, and improve complex surgical robotic equipment. The role requires proactive ownership of technical risk, disciplined escalation, and rapid, evidence-based resolution of manufacturing issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Operations Process Engineering function and maintain clear ownership, governance, priorities, technical standards, and escalation paths for manufacturing processes.
• Own end-to-end manufacturing processes in partnership with Operations, Quality, R&D, NPI, Test, Supply Chain, Service, and other applicable functions.
• Ensure timely technical support for manufacturing interruptions; establish triage, containment, escalation, recovery, and recurrence-prevention practices appropriate to product and patient risk.
• Provide technical direction and decision support for complex mechanical, electromechanical, assembly, test, calibration, alignment, and manufacturing-data issues.
• Lead structured investigations and ensure complete documentation of problem statements, objective evidence, root cause, containment, corrective action, effectiveness checks, and lessons learned.
• Establish and maintain process controls using applicable risk assessments, PFMEAs, control plans, critical process parameters, acceptance criteria, reaction plans, statistical process control, capability analysis, yield monitoring, defect Pareto analysis, and structured problem solving.
• Plan and oversee manufacturing process validation and equipment qualification, including validation strategy, protocols, execution, deviations, reports, revalidation criteria, and continued monitoring, as applicable.

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