Associate Director, Product Development
Johnson & Johnson
- Danvers, MA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead product development programs from inception to implementation
- Direct supervisor of technical staff including engineers and technicians from multiple disciplines
- Organize the team around standardized best practices for project management, including schedule development, resource and budget estimates, requirements generation, cost/benefit analyses, design and development milestones, priority and task management, and meeting facilitation.
- Hire and retain top talent to keep pace with platform growth. Sets business metrics for the team and provides performance feedback to employees.
- Represent the platform as a technical spokesperson to management and the cross functional team
- Engage with external and internal manufacturing partners to develop manufacturable designs and processes.
- Lead design reviews to ensure producibility, inspectability, testability, maintainability and repairability of updated product processes and design changes
- Partner and collaborate cross-functionally (product management, operations, quality, manufacturing, and regulatory) to launch new features, technology, and products into the market
- Assess technical performance of newly launched features, technology, and products in the field to identify, investigate, communicate, and execute on opportunities
- Identify requirements through physician interactions
- Plans, schedules, conducts, and manages various engineering projects, ensuring all projects adhere to acceptable engineering practices and compliance regulations and are appropriately staffed
- Develops standard operating procedures.
- Provide engineering expertise and maintains a high level of competency and business development acumen.
- BS in Engineering required; preferably in Mechanical or Biomedical
- 10+ years' experience in production development required
- 3+ years management experience preferred
- Personnel focused leader with passion for developing junior staff
- Strong meeting facilitator and effective presenter to all audiences
- Expert in medical device design controls required
- Expert project manager (planning, scheduling, coordinating, budgeting) preferred
- Experience in root cause investigation and coordinating, assigning, aligning timely effective mitigations preferred
- Knowledge of Solidworks, ANSYS Mechanical, MathCad, MiniTab & Matlab Engineering CAD preferred
- Possesses excellent communication, motivation, team building, employee involvement, diplomacy, delegating skills as well as confidence and enthusiasm.
- May require up to 30%-40% travel - US & EU