2nd Shift - Process Engineer III
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
Summary
Process Engineer III provides technical leadership for process improvement, equipment reliability, validation, and compliance within a regulated medical supply chain facility. The role requires engineering expertise, data-driven problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration to improve safety, quality, capacity, uptime, and product flow while reducing operational risk and ensuring reliable service to customers and patients.
Job description
Duties and Responsibilities
- Serves as the process engineering technical authority, delivering scalable, compliant solutions for regulated medical supply chain operations.
- Leads troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for sortation, conveyance, PLC, HMI, drives, sensors, safety systems, and controls networks to restore uptime and prevent recurrence.
- Manages equipment and process KPIs, including availability, throughput, cycle time, MTBF, MTTR, quality, and cost, to improve reliability and service performance.
- Develops validation and change-control strategies for equipment, controls, software, and process modifications, ensuring risk assessment, testing, approval, training, and regulatory compliance.
- Drives Lean Six Sigma, statistical, and failure-mode analyses to improve capacity, product flow, labor utilization, and operational resilience.
- Defines preventive and predictive maintenance strategies, critical spares, obsolescence plans, maintenance windows, and recovery procedures for business-critical assets.
- Leads technical escalations and business-continuity planning by coordinating internal teams and vendors through containment, recovery, root-cause confirmation, and closure.
- Provides technical leadership across equipment design, commissioning, qualification, lifecycle support, engineering standards, and team development while reinforcing safety, cybersecurity, quality, and compliance.
Qualifications
- A minimum of a bachelor's degree in mechanical, industrial, electrical engineering or equivalent field is required.
- A minimum of 4 years of relevant experience supporting a warehousing or manufacturing environment.
- A minimum of 1 year of experience with the MAXIMO application (config & admin).
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt required; Black Belt preferred.
- 3+ years managing Lean/Six Sigma projects with demonstrated business impact.
- Project Management experience; control of information flows, manage/control budgets and follow-up planning is required.
- Knowledge of FPX methodology is preferred.
- Experience in healthcare, medical device, pharmaceutical, or other regulated environments strongly preferred.
- Use of Good Manufacturing/Distribution principles (GMP) principles is required.
- Capable to lead and motivate people, and coach them to develop and grow.
- Presentation and well-developed communications skills.
- FPX, Six Sigma, Lean training preferred.
- This position may require up to 15% of travel both internationally and domestically.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, industrial, electrical engineering or equivalent field
- Minimum 4 years of relevant experience supporting a warehousing or manufacturing environment
- Minimum 1 year of experience with the MAXIMO application (config & admin)
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt required
- 3+ years managing Lean/Six Sigma projects with demonstrated business impact
- Project Management experience; control of information flows, manage/control budgets and follow-up planning
- Use of Good Manufacturing/Distribution principles (GMP) principles
- Capable to lead and motivate people, and coach them to develop and grow
- Presentation and well-developed communications skills
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt preferred
- Knowledge of FPX methodology preferred
- Experience in healthcare, medical device, pharmaceutical, or other regulated environments strongly preferred
- FPX, Six Sigma, Lean training preferred
Company overview
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is the pharmaceutical division of Johnson & Johnson, leading the way in medical innovation with a relentless focus on bringing transformational treatments to patients worldwide. The company applies rigorous science and compassion to address the most complex diseases of our time, developing groundbreaking medicines across key therapeutic areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, and cardiopulmonary medicine. With deep expertise and global reach, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine reimagines how devastating diseases are treated and cured, delivering hope and better care for millions of patients and their families. The organization pioneers the path from laboratory research to clinical application, championing patients every step of the way while maintaining an unwavering commitment to scientific excellence and patient-centered innovation.