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Senior Automation Engineer, OT Infrastructure & Integration

Johnson & Johnson MedTech · Wilson, NC

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Level
Senior
Team
Controls
Travel
25%
Degree
Required
Experience asked
6+ years
Industry
Medical devices
Posted
17 days ago

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A senior controls role at Johnson & Johnson MedTech (medical devices) in Wilson, NC. Lead, coach, and develop OT infrastructure and integration team members, contractors, suppliers, OEM technical teams, and system integrators; provide technical direction, resource planning, delivery governance, and performance alignment.

They ask for
6+ years · degree required
Tools it names
Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), PLC, Automation, MES
Day to day
about 25% travel

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About the role

Key Responsibilities

  • ◆Lead the strategy, execution, and lifecycle management of manufacturing OT infrastructure and integration solutions across the site.
  • ◆Lead, coach, and develop OT infrastructure and integration team members, contractors, suppliers, OEM technical teams, and system integrators; provide technical direction, resource planning, delivery governance, and performance alignment.
  • ◆Define and execute the site OT infrastructure and integration strategy, including industrial network architecture, server and virtualization platforms, historian infrastructure, system interfaces, cybersecurity controls, lifecycle standards, and support models.
  • ◆Provide end-to-end leadership for OT infrastructure project delivery, including concept development, detailed design, procurement support, build/configuration, FAT/integration testing, commissioning, qualification, start-up, handover, troubleshooting, and steady-state support.
  • ◆Serve as the technical authority for manufacturing OT infrastructure, ensuring solutions are secure, reliable, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with global automation, cybersecurity, Digital/IT, and site standards.
  • ◆Lead all aspects of design and lifecycle management for virtualized server environments, virtual machines, VLANs, network segmentation, domain services, authentication, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and related OT infrastructure components.
  • ◆Lead integration of OT infrastructure with automation and manufacturing systems, including DCS/PAS, PLC systems, SCADA/HMI, MES, BAS, historians, data platforms, and other Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 systems.
  • ◆Establish and maintain standards, templates, design specifications, network diagrams, interface definitions, support documentation, and lifecycle practices for OT infrastructure and integrated manufacturing systems.
  • ◆Review and approve supplier, OEM, and system-integrator designs, configurations, test documentation, and turnover packages to ensure alignment with technical, compliance, cybersecurity, and lifecycle requirements.
  • ◆Partner with Automation, Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, CSV, MES, BAS/Utilities, Lab Systems, Digital/IT, Cybersecurity, and project leadership to align requirements, resolve risks, and deliver integrated site solutions.
  • ◆Ensure OT infrastructure deliverables comply with cGMP requirements, computerized system validation expectations, data-integrity principles, cybersecurity controls, and applicable site and global standards.
  • ◆Support inspections, risk assessments, investigations, deviations, corrective and preventive actions, change controls, and remediation activities related to OT infrastructure and integrated manufacturing systems.
  • ◆Manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, dependencies, and risks for OT infrastructure work packages; escalate issues and key decisions to project and business leadership as appropriate.
  • ◆Define, monitor, and report metrics for OT infrastructure delivery, system performance, cybersecurity readiness, reliability, compliance, and lifecycle health.
  • ◆Identify and lead continuous improvement opportunities that enhance OT infrastructure reliability, manufacturing-system integration, cybersecurity posture, data availability, operational support, and lifecycle efficiency.

Education

  • ✓A minimum Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Science, or a related technical field; required

Required

  • ✓Minimum of 6 years of progressive experience in manufacturing OT infrastructure, industrial automation infrastructure, or closely related regulated manufacturing systems, with direct responsibility for OT archit
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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.

Job Function

Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function

Automation Engineering

Job Category

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations

Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America

Job Description

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

Learn more and apply to this exciting new role!

Reporting to the Site Automation organization, the Automation Engineering Manager, OT Infrastructure & Integration provides leadership, technical direction, and delivery accountability for manufacturing OT infrastructure and integrated automation systems across the site. This role owns the OT infrastructure strategy and execution model required to support reliable, secure, compliant, and scalable manufacturing operations.

Senior Automation Engineer will lead internal team members, suppliers, OEMs, system integrators, Digital/IT partners, automation-system owners, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver OT infrastructure, industrial networking, integration, historian, virtualization, cybersecurity, and lifecycle initiatives in a cGMP manufacturing environment.

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