{"id":2641077,"url":"https://alion.io/job/johnson-johnson-operations-process-engineering-managersurgical-robotics-ottava","title":"Operations Process Engineering Manager/Surgical Robotics-OTTAVA","company":{"id":14152,"name":"Johnson & Johnson","domain":"jnj.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/jnj","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Santa Clara, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":134000,"max_usd":274000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":1695},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"CAPA","optional":false},{"name":"SolidWorks","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-15T18:53:12Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-15","last_verified_at":"2026-10-16T03:13:32Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"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 jnj.com\nAs guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.\nJob Function:\nSupply Chain EngineeringJob Sub Function:\nProcess EngineeringJob Category:\nPeople LeaderAll Job Posting Locations:\nSanta Clara, California, United States of AmericaJob Description:\nJohnson & Johnson RAD (Robotics and Digital) is seeking for a Operations Process Engineering Manager - OTTAVA, for our Santa Clara, Location.\nAt 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/.\nAbout MedTech Surgery \nFueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.\nAre 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.\nYour unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech\nPurpose:\nThe 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.\nThis 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.\nThe 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.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead the Operations Process Engineering function and maintain clear ownership, governance, priorities, technical standards, and escalation paths for manufacturing processes.\nOwn end-to-end manufacturing processes in partnership with Operations, Quality, R&D, NPI, Test, Supply Chain, Service, and other applicable functions.\nEnsure timely technical support for manufacturing interruptions; establish triage, containment, escalation, recovery, and recurrence-prevention practices appropriate to product and patient risk.\nProvide technical direction and decision support for complex mechanical, electromechanical, assembly, test, calibration, alignment, and manufacturing-data issues.\nLead structured investigations and ensure complete documentation of problem statements, objective evidence, root cause, containment, corrective action, effectiveness checks, and lessons learned.\nEstablish 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.\nPlan and oversee manufacturing process validation and equipment qualification, including validation strategy, protocols, execution, deviations, reports, revalidation criteria, and continued monitoring, as applicable.\nOwn production change management and ensure changes are technically justified, risk assessed, verified or validated as applicable, approved, implemented, documented, and monitored for effectiveness.\nEnsure change controls, CAPAs, nonconformances, deviations, and related quality-system activities are completed with appropriate technical rigor and within committed timelines.\nPartner on design for manufacturability and assembly, tolerance analysis, production test strategy, design transfer, process characterization, production-readiness reviews, and acceptance of manufacturing deliverables.\nDefine manufacturing equipment, tooling, fixtures, metrology, calibration, maintenance, software, data, and traceability requirements needed to control the process and maintain the validated state.\nSupport supplier and contract-manufacturer process readiness, technical transfer, process changes, issue resolution, and risk reduction in coordination with Supplier Quality and Supply Chain.\nEnsure manufacturing work instructions, specifications, training requirements, process records, and configuration and traceability controls are accurate, controlled, and usable at the point of execution.\nUse production, service, installation, complaint, and field-performance inputs made available through applicable quality processes to identify manufacturing risks and improvement priorities.\nLead capacity, cycle-time, labor, layout, ergonomic, automation, and capital-equipment improvement initiatives while protecting safety, quality, compliance, and product performance.\nOwn operations process-engineering metrics and management reviews, including first-pass yield, defect and escape trends, cycle time, downtime, process capability, validation status, cost savings, cost avoidance, and readiness risks, as applicable.\nLead improvement programs with defined scope, work breakdown structure, resources, budget, schedule, deliverables, dependencies, risks, benefits, and production-readiness criteria.\nRepresent Operations Process Engineering in cross-functional governance, audits, inspections, and technical reviews, and ensure commitments, decisions, and risks are documented and escalated appropriately.\nPeople Leadership\nSet clear team priorities, technical expectations, decision rights, deliverables, and measurable accountability for safety, quality, delivery, cost, compliance, and program readiness.\nBuild an organization and resource plan aligned with business needs, manufacturing demand, technical risk, and budget; identify capability or capacity gaps and propose evidence-based actions.\nAssign work based on capability, development needs, program risk, and workload, and monitor progress through structured operating reviews and visible metrics.\nCoach engineers through technical reviews, production support, investigations, validation, and cross-functional decisions while maintaining clear individual ownership.\nProvide timely, specific feedback; document performance expectations; recognize results; address performance gaps; and follow through on development commitments.\nBuild team capability through hiring, onboarding, qualification, targeted training, mentoring, succession planning, and progressively complex assignments.\nMaintain role-based training and competency expectations for work performed under the quality system and ensure the team follows applicable procedures and documentation practices.\nCreate an environment of constructive technical debate, objective evidence, professional resolution of disagreements, timely decision making, and transparent escalation.\nQualifications\nRequired\nBachelor’s degree in mechanical, manufacturing, industrial, systems, biomedical, mechatronics, or another engineering discipline relevant to the role.\nMinimum eight years of progressive experience in process engineering, manufacturing engineering, or process development for complex mechanical or electromechanical products, including at least three years leading engineers or technical teams.\nExperience in a regulated medical-device manufacturing environment and working knowledge of ISO 13485 and the FDA Quality Management System Regulation under 21 CFR Part 820.\nDemonstrated experience owning manufacturing processes across introduction or transfer, validation, scale-up, routine production, change control, and sustainment.\nStrong technical competence in assembly-process design, tooling and fixture development, tolerance application, fastening or joining methods, process characterization, production test, root-cause analysis, and production problem solving.\nDemonstrated experience with risk-based process controls, including PFMEA, control plans, critical process parameters, acceptance criteria, reaction plans, capability analysis, statistical methods, yield analysis, and corrective action.\nExperience planning or approving manufacturing process validation and equipment qualification, including IQ/OQ/PQ or equivalent lifecycle documentation, as applicable.\nExperience with nonconformance, deviation, CAPA, engineering change control, controlled manufacturing documentation, and maintaining objective quality records.\nHands-on knowledge of manufacturing metrology, measurement instrumentation, calibration, measurement system analysis, and gage R&R.\nExperience with a product lifecycle management or document-control system and an enterprise resource planning or manufacturing system used to control materials, configurations, work instructions, and production records.\nExperience leading cross-functional engineering programs, including resource planning, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, technical deliverables, and launch-readiness reviews.\nDemonstrated people leadership, including hiring, prioritizing work, coaching, developing technical talent, managing performance, and creating accountability.\nAbility to communicate complex technical information clearly across engineering, quality, operations, supply chain, service, and program-management functions.\nKnowledge of Lean and Six Sigma methods, structured root-cause and failure analysis, and continuous improvement.\nAbility to operate effectively through ambiguity, changing requirements, and aggressive program timelines while maintaining sound engineering and quality-system discipline.\nAbility to travel up to 10%; 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