R&D Engineering Manager

Job Function:

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:

R&D Mechanical Engineering

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States of America, Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Job Description:

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. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone Orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals.

Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes, and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.

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