Staff Engineer

**"Johnson & Johnson companies are equal opportunity employers"**- At Johnson & Johnson, the largest healthcare company in the world, we come together with one purpose: to profoundly change the trajectory of health for humanity.- Diversity & Inclusion are essential to continue building our history of pioneering and innovation, which has been impacting the health of more than 1 billion patients and consumers every day for more than 130 years. Regardless of your race, belief, sexual orientation, religion or any other trait, YOU are welcome in all open positions at the largest healthcare company in the world.- When You Join Johnson & Johnson, Your Next Move Could Mean Our Next Breakthrough.**STAFF ENGINEER (TEMPORARY 24 MONTHS)**:**JOB SUMMARY**Adds value through the knowledge of process engineering; provides support to the stabilization and to the life cycle of projects for continuous improvement from the identification to the execution and closing in terms of cost, quality, efficiency and time cycle.Quick response to operations in: technical resolutions, change of direction, manufacturing scalability, process development/operations product and material replacement. Can complete projects in his/her work area or with suppliers, in order to provide an interrupted flow of components for the assembly operations, that has the established requirements of instruments, quality, cost and delivery times.If CSS Position:This position willhave responsibilities across ETHICON and Cardiovascular and Specialty Solution (CSS) Companies Johnson and Johnson Family of Companies) including a span of multipleproductplatforms such as General Surgical Devices, Sutures, ENT, Infection Prevention, Electrophysiology and Surgical and Non-SurgicalAesthetics.**DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**Under limited supervisionand in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws/regulations and Corporate Johnson & Johnson, procedures and guidelines, this position:- Must know and follow the policies and procedures of the company in which he/sheworks at, related to work activities of his area of responsibility, as well as ensuring that his/her subordinates know and follow the policies of the company and the procedures related to their work activities and area of responsibility.- Completes the trainings in the area of responsibility within the assigned period of time. The training is required for the changes and implementations of existing policies and procedures, new functions, etc. Completes the retraining in areas such as safety and environment.- Follows all the safety policies of the company and safety precautions within the work area. Promotes safety to all the associates that enter the work area.- Responsible for the leadership and execution of projects focused on the reduction of the variation originated by process and/or product design that influences positively in the metrics of the business, strategic directions and financial results.- Maintains updated work plans for projects through the year such as design changes in the products that are base of the business (extension in product lines), process changes and cost improvement projects.- Identifies and executes cost improvement projects to support the manufacturing supply chain goals and/or of the suppliers.- Directs technical projects in his/hermanufacturing site and/or with suppliers, in order to improve the capacity process, maintenance, instruments assembly capacity and the performance of the produced instruments.- Provides technical support for the approval and validation of the changes and improvements in the processes within his/her manufacturing site and/or with the supplier.- Provides technical support for the resolution of Quality problems of the components.- Potentially coordinates supervision activities in MEST technical areas (Manufacturing Engineering Science and Technology) (RMI/CAD/BOM).- Maintains the continuity of the supply chain qualifying and validating the tools through the approval procedures of the components.- Ensures the closing of non-conformities of the component problems, besides their timely correction and the approval of control plans within his area or of the suppliers.- Can contribute with unique and significant experience in the development or revision of a product of significant complexity or through multiple product lines.- He/she is seen in the organization as a role model in reference to the leadership bases of the Company.- He/she is an authority in a specific technical field, having considerable freedom to determine the technical goals of the assignments. It is expected that his/her work will have new results or redefinitionsof: equipment, materials, processes, products or technical methods.- Responsible for communicating business related issues or opportunities to next management level- Responsible for ensuring subordinates follow all Company guidelines related to Health, Safety and Environmentalpractices and that