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Engineering
Process Automation
Manufacturing Engineering
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Process Automation
Manufacturing Engineering
Maintenance
(Bio) Process
Quality
Validation
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About Your Next Job
- Lead automation and equipment projects from requirements and design through implementation, validation, handover, and operational support.
- Develop and maintain compliant project and validation documentation, including URS, risk assessments, test plans, FAT, IQ/OQ/PQ, reports, SOPs, and change-control records.
- Design, integrate, troubleshoot, and improve PLC, SCADA, HMI, robotic, vision, and related manufacturing systems to increase safety, reliability, quality, and productivity.
- Act as the site subject matter expert for OT and cybersecurity, applying and explaining established enterprise policies and standards within the local manufacturing environment.
- Maintain and qualify the OT asset inventory, support risk-based assessments, and document the site security operating model, governance, roles, and responsibilities in an audit-ready manner.
About Your Next Colleagues
- Reports to the Manufacturing Engineering, Automation department at Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Groningen.
- Collaborates across Engineering, IT, OT, Cybersecurity, Quality, Operations, R&D, and external suppliers.
About Your Tasks and Responsibilities
- Lead automation and equipment projects from requirements and design through implementation, validation, handover, and operational support.
- Develop and maintain compliant project and validation documentation, including URS, risk assessments, test plans, FAT, IQ/OQ/PQ, reports, SOPs, and change-control records.
- Design, integrate, troubleshoot, and improve PLC, SCADA, HMI, robotic, vision, and related manufacturing systems to increase safety, reliability, quality, and productivity.
- Act as the site subject matter expert for OT and cybersecurity, applying and explaining established enterprise policies and standards within the local manufacturing environment.
- Maintain and qualify the OT asset inventory, support risk-based assessments, and document the site security operating model, governance, roles, and responsibilities in an audit-ready manner.
- Define practical implementation procedures for enterprise security solutions, including password management, patching, planned maintenance, and communication of operational impacts in cooperation with IT.
- Ensure solutions comply with applicable cGMP, GxP, CSV, EHS, FDA, ISO 13485, and internal quality and cybersecurity requirements.
- Analyze system and process performance, lead structured problem solving and continuous improvement, and communicate recommendations using clear, data-driven reports.
- Collaborate across Engineering, IT, OT, Cybersecurity, Quality, Operations, R&D, and suppliers; train users and mentor engineers and technicians where required.
About Your Skills and Experience
- At least 7 years of relevant experience in automation, industrial engineering, OT, and cybersecurity within a regulated manufacturing environment.
- Proven experience designing, implementing, validating, and troubleshooting automated systems, including PLC, SCADA, HMI, robotics, or vision technologies.
- Practical knowledge of OT cybersecurity, asset management, risk-based security concepts, patching, and application of corporate policies and standards at site level.
- Strong working knowledge of cGMP, GxP, CSV, change control, and validation in the medical device, pharmaceutical, or another highly regulated industry.
- Demonstrated project leadership, structured problem solving, data analysis, and continuous-improvement capability.
- Strong documentation, stakeholder management, collaboration, and communication skills in a highly matrixed global organization.
- Professional proficiency in English; able to explain complex technical and security topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Structured, proactive, security-conscious, and comfortable balancing operational priorities with compliance requirements.
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.
- 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.
Only apply if...
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Control Systems Engineering, Robotics, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field; a master’s degree is preferred.
- At least 7 years of relevant experience in automation, industrial engineering, OT, and cybersecurity within a regulated manufacturing environment.
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