About the vacancy
Production
Production planning
Manufacturing Engineering
Quality Assurance
Project Management
About Your Next Job
You will lead a hands-on team within Operations to deliver high-quality medical products in a safe, compliant, and efficient work environment. This role ensures production meets the master production or shipment schedules while upholding cGMP, EHS, and lean principles. You’ll partner with engineering, quality, and other supervisors to keep processes running smoothly and to introduce and qualify new equipment and products!
About Your Next Colleagues
- You will lead a hands-on team within Operations
- Partner with engineering, quality, and other supervisors
About Your Tasks and Responsibilities
- Meet production targets from the Master Production Schedule and shipment schedule while ensuring safety, cGMP, and lean practices across your area.
- Lead, coach, and support a cross-functional production team, assign operators, and promote a learning and safe work environment.
- Drive new product and equipment introductions: provide User Requirements to engineering, support equipment qualification, and ensure operators are trained in correct use.
- Keep SOPs, work instructions, and other process documentation up-to-date and ensure timely, compliant recordkeeping according to procedure.
- Monitor and analyze production metrics (yield, non-conformances, training, absenteeism), perform periodic team reviews, report performance to management, and recommend corrective actions.
- Lead investigations for deviations, support CAPA activities, and escalate technical issues to line specialists or engineers when needed.
About Your Skills and Experience
- HBO-level education or higher
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in manufacturing; experience in the medical device industry or medical field is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of end-to-end manufacturing processes and familiarity with cGMP and EHS requirements relevant to the role.
- Practical computer and automation software skills, including Excel, Windows, and ERP systems.
- Proficient verbal and written communication skills in English and Dutch.
- Experience with Six Sigma or process-excellence tools, data-driven decision-making, business/financial acumen, and presentation skills.
About Your Benefits
- An annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions.
- Vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave.
- Well-being reimbursement, and programs for financial, physical and mental health.
- Service anniversary and recognition awards.
- Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans.
Where Molecules Meet Opportunities
- 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.
- As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.
- Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.
Only apply if...
- HBO-level education or higher
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in manufacturing; experience in the medical device industry or medical field is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of end-to-end manufacturing processes and familiarity with cGMP and EHS requirements relevant to the role.
- Proficient verbal and written communication skills in English and Dutch.
Contact person
Frank Helmus
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