Senior Manager, Site Technical Operations

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.

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Job Function:
Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function:
Process Engineering

Job Category:
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
Cornelia, Georgia, United States of America

Job 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

J&J MedTech Surgery, a member of Johnson & Johnson's Family of Companies, is currently recruiting for a Senior Manager, Site Technical Operations to be located in Cornelia, GA

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we're developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at

At J&J MedTech we're changing the trajectory of health for humanity, using robotics to enhance healthcare providers' abilities and improve patients' diagnoses, treatments, and recovery times. Join our collaborative, rapidly growing teams. You'll collaborate on breakthrough medical technologies that unite multiple subject areas to build a connected digital ecosystem that advances medical professionals' skills and improves patient outcomes.

Position Summary:

In this leadership role, you will set and execute the engineering strategy and lead delivery of a robust capital and reliability portfolio across a extremely strategic manufacturing Campus. You will partner with business leaders to improve safety, quality, service, and cost performance while building a high-performing engineering organization and ensuring sustained compliance, validation rigor, and inspection readiness.

Key Responsibilities:

• Set the site engineering vision, roadmap and lead a multi-disciplinary campus organization (cross-functional engineering, MES systems, Asset Management, and program/project management; ~51 colleagues), building capability, engagement, and a high-performance culture.
• Serve as the primary engineering and project partner for multiple business units across two manufacturing facilities, aligning technical priorities to safety, quality, service, and cost objectives.
• Drive organizational-evolving structure, roles, and ways of working (including integration/merging of engineering functions where beneficial) to accelerate decision-making, execution, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Own the site capital and appropriation expense budgets, setting investment strategy, prioritizing the portfolio, and ensuring disciplined governance and financial accountability.
• Lead end-to-end execution of the engineering project portfolio, delivering compliant, right-first-time results through strong scope control, risk management, and schedule/cost performance.
• Own the site asset management strategy-strengthening reliability, preventive maintenance, lifecycle planning, and KPI performance through continuous improvement and data-driven decision-making.
• Own the site validation program and inspection readiness, ensuring robust documentation, execution discipline, and sustained audit readiness ("front-room" readiness).
• Ensure strong operational support by leading investigations and resolution of manufacturing nonconformances, troubleshooting equipment/automation issues, and sustaining critical MES systems to protect safety, quality, and throughput.

Qualifications :

Education:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree and/or University degree is required, with a focus in Engineering or a related technical field.

Experience:

Required:

• A minimum of eight (8) years of experience in a related, professional environment
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams in a manufacturing environment (preferred).
• Experience managing capital project portfolios and budgets, including investment planning and governance.
• Working knowledge of regulated manufacturing expectations (e.g., validation, audit readiness, documentation discipline).
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills across functions and sites.

Preferred:

• Experience supporting medical device and/or pharmaceutical manufacturing.
• Experience owning/leading site asset management and maintenance KPI programs.
• Experience with manufacturing execution systems (MES) in a 24/7 operation.
• Program/project management experience across a complex engineering portfolio.

Other:

• May require up to 20% domestic and/or international travel to other locations and sites

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants' needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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