Engineering Team Lead

• Job title Engineering Team Lead
• Function Supply Chain Engineering
• Sub function Manufacturing Engineering
• Category Senior Engineer, Manufacturing Engineering (ST6)
• Location Limerick / Ireland
• Date posted Jul 20 2026
• Requisition number R-087748
• 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

Position Overview

The Engineer Team Lead leads and directs teams of engineers to achieve engineering goals in line with business strategies and objectives in their respective field of engineering, e.g. Manufacturing, Projects, IMM, Process, Automation, etc.

This function also partners with manufacturing and quality in the identification, definition and execution of projects driving continuous improvement in business value stream productivity and capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides complete leadership and direction for cross functional engineering teams
• Manages all elements of employee performance including employee development, mentoring, performance improvement processes etc… This includes all elements associated with developing the team to increased performance, capability and scope.
• Day to day management of cross functional engineering team including regular one to one meetings, timely reviews, core management etc…
• Resource management to facilitate attainment of project or team goals within established timelines and budgets.
• Manages engineering team taking responsibility for on-time on-budget delivery of engineering work. Where required, leads engineers through detailed plans and execution on innovative change across assigned assets, both equipment upgrades and equipment optimizations.
• Provides complex technical and team support for project planning, development, implementation, and modification in a deadline environment.
• Performs assignments that have complex objectives and require the investigation of multiple variables.
• Performs work which involves complex conventional types of plans, investigations, surveys, structures, or equipment with highly complex features for which there may be no precedents.
• Team adherence to site and legislative safety standards and other relevant regulations. All employees are responsible for minimizing both the Environmental and Health & Safety effects of the work that they perform.
• Contributes extensively to engineering standards development balancing corporate and customer needs.
• Contributes on a management level and proactively looks for areas to improve both within Engineering and across the business.
• Support and assists Engineering Manager with project management
  

Qualifications & Skills
Essential:

• Hold an Engineering degree in a relevant Engineering / Science discipline or have equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years experience working in respective field of engineering
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Be able to demonstrate good project management and communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail
• The ability to lead a technical team and apply a scientific approach to problem solving, blending analytical and experimental skills to maximize productivity and yields is an essential requirement
• Responsibilities and accountabilities will vary for all positions and the scope of individual roles may not be limited to the contents of this position description.

Desirable:

• Ability to demonstrate standards of leadership
• Motivate and co-ordinate personnel
• Manage complexity
• Customer Focused and Culturally Aware
• Flexible & Team Player
• Good Influencing Skills and demonstrated ability to defuse difficult situations
• Project Management Skills
• Excellent Communication Skills

Don't miss this exceptional opportunity to join a world-class company and make a lasting impact. Apply now and be part of our ambitious team!

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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.