Site Engineering Lead

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.

As 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.

Job Function:

Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function:

Project Engineering

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Little Island, Cork, Ireland

Job Description:

J&J Innovative Medicine – Site Engineering Lead

Location – Cork, Ireland

Company background & culture:

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/.

As 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.

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Purpose of the role

The Site Engineering Lead is a member of the SM GET LT Team. This position provides leadership and direction for resources and activities in Asset Management to support the manufacture of APIs and other products as part of the Innovative Medicines portfolio. The incumbent is the lead of a team that is responsible for providing innovative engineering and technology solutions, elite maintenance practices and next-gen automation support for site operations.

What to expect:

The Site Engineering Lead will:

• Develop and be accountable to meet an engineering budget based on asset risk, criticality, availability, and unreliability costs.
• Ensure the Engineering Team has the required size, skills, training, and ongoing development in technical, managerial, and business areas.
• Implement standards for recurring work, including standard methods, safety analyses, resource planning, and cost compilation to maximise efficiency, minimise risks, and reduce downtime.
• Continuous improvement is expected through KPIs, process monitoring, and implementing improvement opportunities.
• Define engineering requirements for equipment reliability, availability, maintainability, lifecycle costs, and performance standards.
• Review engineering standards, provide guidance on technology and components, and coordinate FRACAS and equipment reviews for asset reliability and capital planning.
• Own risk assessment processes (e.g., FMECA, HAZOP, RCM), set mitigation strategies, and determine maintenance and spare parts needs.
• Maintaining up-to-date asset documentation and CMMS data is required.
• Accountable for execution of engineering projects, NPIs, PLCMs, CIP, JJPS, and Lean initiatives.
• Lead Platform Asset Management initiatives, ensuring their execution locally.

Who will you be working with:

Reporting into the Global Lead - Synthetics Site Engineering, you will work closely with the following people:

• Site General Manager
• Site LT Members
• Site Engineering Leads at Synthetics Manufacturing sites

Who are we looking for?

To excel in this role, a successful candidate will have strong leadership & interpersonal skills and proven experience in a supply chain organization (e.g. engineering, maintenance, operations).

What type of mark will you make?

By joining Johnson & Johnson you will find boundless opportunities to craft your path & amplify your impact inside & outside our walls. And with our commitment to be the world’s healthiest workforce you can strengthen your body as well and your mind. When you work at Johnson & Johnson you can touch over a Billion lives worldwide every day. And when you apply your talent to our collective purpose there’s no end to the lasting impact we can make together. And that changes everything.

What’s in it for you?

It’s important to us that you feel you can bring your whole self to work; at Johnson & Johnson we provide an environment for you to fulfil your career aspirations as well as promoting your physical and mental wellbeing. As part of our offering, you will receive competitive compensation and benefits package as well as benefits that can be tailored to what is valuable to you throughout different stages of your life. Examples of this include private healthcare, Retail Vouchers, Discounted & Subsidised Gym memberships and you can get to support community projects as part of our global Corporate Social Responsibility programme.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

For more information on how we support the whole health of our employees throughout their wellness, career and life journey, please visit www.careers.jnj.com

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

 

 

Required Skills:

Capital Equipment, Project Management, Site Leadership

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Agile Decision Making, Budget Management, Collaborating, Customer Centricity, Developing Others, Facilitation, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Lean Supply Chain Management, Non-Conformance Reporting (NCR), Organizational Project Management, Project Engineering, Project Integration Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Regulatory Compliance, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Application, Scientific Research, Stakeholder Engagement, Team Management