Staff Project Engineer

• Job title Staff Project Engineer
• Function Supply Chain Engineering
• Sub function Project Engineering
• Category Senior Engineer, Project Engineering (ST6)
• Location Limerick / Ireland
• Date posted Jun 15 2026
• Requisition number R-079343
• Work pattern Fully Onsite

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.

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.

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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

Job Summary

Staff Project Engineer is responsible for executing all phases of site wide capital projects that enable the continuous improvement of our world class manufacturing platforms and supporting systems. You will be directly responsible for leading a variety of projects from concept to delivery and act as the technical lead accountable for scope development, schedule execution, and budget adherence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable individual for delivering site priority capital projects that span equipment upgrades, product brand conversions, and new line installation/commissioning under minimal supervision.
• Utilize experience with formal project management tools to ensure execution to best practices around budget development, resource management, and schedule creation.
• Lead multi-functional teams (internal and external to Engineering) and influence business decisions around optimal scope approaches. Supervise the activities of a multi-disciplined staff that may change in size and composition from project to project.
• Responsible for providing technical interpretation and expertise to ensure adherence to FDA/Safety/Quality policies, good engineering practices, J&J standards, and customer specifications.
• Align project scope with stakeholders and document in project charter. Provide regular project updates to site leadership. Drive business alignment through the development and execution of a formal communication plan.
• 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.
• Demonstrates a strong leadership style which reflects the standards and expectations outlined in the Johnson & Johnson Credo.

Qualifications

Education:

• A bachelor’s degree: life sciences, engineering, or business management specialization is 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.
• 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.
• Able to effectively communicate formal project methodologies around the key areas of project management.
• Experience providing direction to both internal and contract project team members and driving tactical execution to project milestones.
• Experience owning the installation, commissioning, and validation activities for automated process equipment in a regulated medical device industry. This includes familiarity with FDA regulatory standards and Good Manufacturing Practices.
• Experience developing budgets and business case proposals that led to acquiring capital appropriations in excess of $1M USD.
• Proven track record of effectively forecasting project cash flows and actively managing spend to achieve accurate results against forecast.
• Familiar with Process Safety Management and Process Hazard Analysis for equipment installations and qualifications within PSM governed areas.

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• This position could have up to 10% travel both domestic and/or international.
• Certification in a Project Management framework is preferred.
• Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and 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, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
  

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In addition to base pay, we offer the following 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. Moreover, we offer 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. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.