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The Staff Project Engineer executes site-wide capital projects supporting growth and continuous improvement of manufacturing platforms and systems. The role develops scope, schedules, and budgets for manufacturing line installations, equipment retrofits, and utility upgrades, and coordinates contracted services. It leads cross-functional teams, manages project delivery and stakeholder communication, and ensures work adheres to regulatory, safety, quality, engineering, and customer requirements.
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Full job description
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 jnj.com (https://www.jnj.com.) .
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.
Job Function:
Supply Chain Engineering
Job Sub Function:
Project Engineering
Job Category:
Scientific/Technology
All Job Posting Locations:
Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
Job Description:
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care is recruiting for a Staff Project Engineer, Vision Care located in Jacksonville, Florida.
An internal pre-identified candidate for consideration has been identified. However, all applicants will be considered.
About Vision
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 on the possibilities of vision treatments? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how vision is improved? Our Vision team solves the toughest health challenges. Help combine cutting-edge insights, science, technology, and people to encourage eye care professionals and patients to proactively protect, correct and enhance healthy sight for life. Our products and services address these needs – from the pediatric to aging eye – in a patient’s lifetime.
Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech
At Johnson & Johnson Vision , we have a bold ambition: to change the trajectory of eye health. That’s why, through our operating companies, we’ve developed solutions for every stage of life—to help people see better, connect better and live better. We partner with eye care professionals to provide some of the world’s leading products and technologies to address refractive error, cataracts, dry eye, and beyond. We are committed to using our reach and size for good and strive to put quality eye care within reach of everyone, everywhere. Visit us at www.jjvision.com. Follow @JNJVision on Twitter and Johnson & Johnson Vision on LinkedIn.
The Staff Project Engineer is responsible for executing all phases of site wide capital projects that enable growth and continuous improvement of our world class manufacturing platforms and supporting systems. You will be responsible for developing scope, schedules, and budgets for new manufacturing line installations, capital equipment retrofits, and process utility system upgrades. The successful candidate will take an active role in utilization of contracted services and contribute to the design and delivery of appropriate contracts and agreements that provide adequate resources for all services needed. The candidate must have a strong track record in deploying capital projects within a manufacturing environment.
Key Responsibilities:
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Accountable individual for delivering site priority capital projects that span equipment upgrades, product brand conversions, and new line installation / commissioning under minimal supervision.
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Establishes project timelines, objectives, priorities, and targets. Responsible for developing project budgets, acquiring bids, preparing funding requests and obtaining Capital Appropriation approval from senior leadership.
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Utilize experience with formal project management tools to ensure execution to best practices including budget development, resource management, schedule creation and risk mitigation.
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Lead multi-functional teams (internal and external to Engineering) and influence business decisions. Provide scope options analysis to stakeholders where necessary to align best value scope required to meet project objectives.
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Align project scope and change manage with stakeholders via project charter. Provide regular project updates to site leadership.
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Supervise the activities of multi-disciplined team that may change in size and composition from project to project.
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Responsible for providing technical interpretation and expertise to ensure adherence to FDA / Safety / Quality policies, good engineering practices, J&J standards, and customer specifications.
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Drive business alignment through the development and execution of a formal communication plan. Represent project through formal stakeholder updates.
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Demonstrates a strong leadership style which reflects the standards and expectations outlined in the Johnson & Johnson Credo.
Qualifications
Education:
- A minimum of bachelor’s degree is required (preferably in Engineering) a Master’s in Science, Engineering, or Business is highly preferred.
Required:
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At least 5 years’ experience with direct accountability over multi-functional teams delivering capital projects to plan within a manufacturing environment.
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Demonstrated experience with budget ownership and direct accountability of capital investments in excess of $1MM. Able to effectively communicate methods for developing budgetary estimates and obtaining capital appropriations through a formal approval process.
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Experience providing direction to internal and contract project team members and driving tactical execution to project milestones.
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Experience owning the installation, commissioning, and validation activities for automated process equipment in a regulated environment.
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Familiarity with FDA regulatory standards and Good Manufacturing Practices.
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Proven track record of effectively forecasting project cash flows and actively managing spend to achieve accurate results against forecast.
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Familiar with Process Safety Management and Process Hazard Analysis for equipment installations and qualifications within PSM governed areas.
Other:
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This position could have up to 10% travel both domestic and/or international.
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Experience in Medical Device or Pharmaceutical industry is preferred.
Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
AI Judgement Integration, Coaching, Collaboration, Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA), Critical Thinking, Customer Centricity, Feasibility Studies, Lean Supply Chain Management, Organizational Project Management, Problem Solving, Project Engineering, Quality Assurance (QA), Regulatory Compliance, Relationship Building, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Application, Scientific Research, Supply Planning, Technologically Savvy
How this job compares
Set against the 5,174 open Project Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Florida median$98–160K/yr77 salary ranges
- US median$36–47/hr274 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 220 open Project Engineer jobs in Florida and 5,174 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Florida
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Project Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,997 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 3,184 of the 5,174 open Project Engineer jobs (62%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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