R&D Engineering Manager

R&D Engineering Manager

We are seeking top talent for the R&D Engineering Manager role on our DePuy Synthes Orthopaedics team. This position may be based in Raynham, MA or Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we're developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Orthopedics? Ready to join a team that's reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems. Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery.

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

Summary: The R&D Engineering Manager leads a team responsible for the design, development, and delivery of products across the Power Tools and Sports Capital Platforms. This individual will lead a blended team of employees and contract engineers, designers, and drafters, working cross-functionally with mechanical, electrical, systems, software, quality, and regulatory teams to ensure product design, drawings, and documents are accurate, complete, and controlled within the PLM system.

The R&D Engineering Manager is accountable for driving mechanical architecture, detailed design, and integration from early concept through commercialization, ensuring designs meet performance, safety, reliability, cost, and regulatory requirements. This role combines technical leadership, people management, and cross-functional collaboration, enabling the successful execution of complex programs in a regulated environment.

The R&D Engineering Manager leads a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for the creation, release, and lifecycle management of product designs, engineering drawings, Bills of Materials (BOMs), and technical documentation within the PTC Windchill Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system. This role ensures engineering data integrity, configuration management, compliance with design standards, and efficient product development processes from concept through production and sustaining engineering.

The manager collaborates closely with Product Development, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Regulatory, and Information Technology to establish best practices for engineering documentation, change management, and product configuration control.

You will:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of design engineers, CAD designers/technicians, and documentation specialists (PLM)
• Design for Reliability (DfR) practices, including durability analysis, fatigue assessment, wear modeling, and lifetime testing strategies.
• Design for Manufacturability and Assembly (DfM/DfA) efforts to ensure scalable, repeatable, and cost-effective production.
• Own and drive mechanical system requirements, ensuring alignment with system-level requirements, user needs, performance targets, and regulatory constraints
• Identify critical paths during product development, address bottlenecks and risks and facilitate problem solving across R&D teams.
• Partner with manufacturing engineering to optimize component sourcing, assembly processes, tolerances, and inspection methods.
• Oversee and guide tolerance stack-up analysis, ensuring precision requirements are met for functional performance.
• Ensure appropriate use of analytical and simulation tools (FEA, thermal, kinematic modeling) to support design decisions and risk mitigation.
• Maintain mechanical design documentation, calculations, and analysis outputs suitable for design reviews, audits, and regulatory submissions.
• Collaborate closely with electrical, system, and software teams to ensure seamless mechanical-electrical-firmware integration.
• Define and review mechanical design concepts, trade studies, and architecture decisions to balance performance, reliability, manufacturability, cost, and serviceability.
• Participate in and contribute to risk management activities, including DFMEA and system-level hazard analysis.
• Ensure mechanical risk controls are correctly implemented, verified, and validated.
• Review test results, investigate failures, and drive corrective actions for mechanical issues identified during development, validation, or field use.
• Ensure mechanical designs comply with applicable regulatory and quality standards (e.g., FDA, ISO 13485, IEC 60601 standards, material compliance).
• Partner with quality and regulatory teams to support design controls, audits, and regulatory submissions.
• Ensure documentation, design outputs, and change management comply with quality system requirements.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of design engineers, CAD designers, and documentation specialists (PLM) fostering technical excellence, accountability, and collaboration.
• Assign work, set technical direction, conduct design reviews, and provide coaching to support professional growth.
• Plan and execute engineering deliverables in alignment with program schedules and business objectives.
• Prepare annual and multi-year budget and resource plans aligned with business strategy
• Drive continuous improvement of engineering processes, CAD tools, and best practices.
• Stay current with advancements in mechanisms/mechatronics, precision gearing, materials, and manufacturing methods.
• Encourage innovation while maintaining disciplined engineering rigor, reliability, and compliance.
• Responsible for ensuring that subordinates follow all Company guidelines related to Health, Safety and Environmental practices and that all resources needed to do so are available and in good condition, if applicable
• Responsible for ensuring personal and Company compliance with all Federal, State, local and Company regulations, policies, and procedures
• Support project resource and schedule planning.
• Performs other duties assigned as needed

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering; advanced degree preferred
• 7+ years of experience in mechanical design and application
• Experience managing teams and/or leading mentoring others.
• Experience with CAD Systems Solidworks/Creo/Unigraphics
• Experience with Class II or Class III medical devices is preferred.
• Knowledge of embedded systems, or electromechanical systems
• Ability to inspire, motivate, and contributes positively to a high performing team oriented culture.
• Ability to work in a lab setting, including validation activities with cadaveric specimans
• Experience with requirements management tools (e.g., DOORS, Jama, Polarion).
• Familiarity with test automation tools and scripting languages (e.g., Python, LabVIEW, MATLAB).
• Excellent technical writing and communication skills.
• Certification in CQE, CQA, or Six Sigma is a plus.
• Proficient in sample size calculation and statistical methods for analyzing data.

Other:

• Ability to travel up to 10% may be required both domestic and international

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 and 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, please email the Employee Health Support Center (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Collaboration, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Mechanical Engineering, Product Development, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Research and Development, Resource Allocation, SAP Product Lifecycle Management, Team Management, Technical Credibility

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$117,000.00 - $201,250.00

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company's consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation 120 hours per calendar year Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado 48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington 56 hours per calendar year Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays 13 days per calendar year Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 4