(Senior) Principal Scientist, Process Optimization & Control

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

Job Function:
R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:
R&D Digital

Job Category:
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands, Ringaskiddy, Cork, Ireland, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

The (Senior) Principal Scientist / Manager Process Optimization & Control, positioned in the Innovation and Technology Deployment organization of Manufacturing Science and Technology (MSAT), leads a distributed team of modelers passionate about optimization and control.

We support all sites, platforms and modalities - all over the globe.

Our mission is to make Johnson & Johnson's manufacturing processes faster and more cost-efficient while improving product quality!

This role covers various aspects, from multi-year innovation projects that see the deployment of creative, digital solutions to supporting near-term operational challenges.

As a hands-on technical lead, this individual will drive strategy, implementation, and deployment of solutions and act as an ambassador everywhere they go.

Building up a new focus area within a larger modeling organization, this person will ensure maximum impact at our manufacturing sites and a long-term sustainable setup.

As a person with a strong vision and can-do approach, the selected candidate will help shape a growing feedback control landscape, including how to craft our approach to improve scalability.

Working closely with their internal customers, collaborators, and senior leadership, they will assess the feasibility and value of proposals and drive the prioritization and execution of selected projects.

Their leadership and expertise will drive continuous improvements in our ways of working and help upskill all around them in this exciting domain.

Help us change the way medicine is produced! The selected person will support novel as well as established products.

From process capability/quality improvements to breakthrough enhancements in Cost of Goods, we strive to support all internal & external manufacturing sites with modeling know-how backed up by scientific understanding.
 

Skill Requirements:



* Strong background in a variety of optimization techniques, including for non-linear and -convex systems and/or feedback control techniques such as model predictive control (MPC).

Familiarity with process analytical technology (PAT) - specifically spectroscopy to...