Staff Manufacturing Engineer

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Job Function:
Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function:
Manufacturing Engineering

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
Limerick, Ireland

Job Description:
Job Position Summary

The Staff Manufacturing Engineer is a senior individual-contributor role providing technical leadership for manufacturing engineering within J&J Vision Care, Limerick.

Working in a high-volume, fully automated and highly regulated contact lens manufacturing environment, the Staff Engineer leads complex, high-impact technical initiatives that improve equipment performance, process capability, yield and output, while ensuring operations remain safe, compliant and cost-effective.

The role acts as a subject matter expert and technical authority across one or more value streams, influences technical direction across Engineering, Operations, Quality, R&D and Global Engineering, and coaches and mentors engineers to raise the technical capability of the wider team.

The Staff Engineer reports to the Manufacturing Engineering Manager and has no direct line management responsibility, but is expected to lead through influence.

Duties & Responsibilities
Technical Leadership


* Act as the senior technical authority for manufacturing equipment and processes, providing direction on complex troubleshooting, root cause analysis and long-term technical solutions.


* Lead the design, installation, qualification, optimisation and standardisation of lens production processes, equipment, tooling and controls, ensuring solutions are scalable and, where appropriate, deployed across multiple lines and value streams.


* Drive year-on-year improvements in equipment OEE, process capability, yield and output through structured problem solving, data analysis and Lean / Six Sigma methodologies.


* Develop and maintain technical roadmaps for assigned platforms, including obsolescence and aged-asset mitigation, technology upgrades and capability development.


* Provide technical input to capital investment proposals, business cycle planning and cost-saving programmes.

Projects, NPI & Continuous Improvement


* Lead large, cross-functional engin...