Technical Support Group Lead (switzerland)

Technical Support Group Lead

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.

Job Function: Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function: Project Engineering

Job Category: People Leader

Locations: Zug, Switzerland

Job Description: Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s).

The Technical Support Group (TSG) is a key engineering specialist group providing technical support, global standards, global processes, subject matter expertise and governance to the Innovative Medicines (IM) Project Delivery (PD) team. The IMPD team is responsible for delivering technical support to all capital projects, including all green field and brown field builds for Innovative Medicines. The TSG is responsible for setting the technical direction for these projects, based on leading edge industry and regulatory standards. The TSG are responsible for governing the adoption of these leading-edge industry standards. The TSG is also responsible for governing the external manufacturing assessment program.

The Technical Support Group Lead is responsible for leading a team of industry experts in Biotherapeutics, Synthetics, Advanced Therapies and Medicinal Products; to deliver a standard end to end technical support for capital projects from concept to handover, encompassing the following key areas: Facility business need, Facility design, Facility construction, commissioning and handover, Facility process validation, Asset management readiness, Project management operations and governance.

Responsibilities include defining and deploying a vision and strategy for a standard technical approach, overseeing the creation of all necessary Facility and Equipment processes and standards, providing end to end expert engineering technical support and guidance to capital projects, providing guidance and overarching technical leadership in Facility & Equipment design, overseeing the creation of all necessary asset management engineering standards and processes, providing leadership and oversight to the site asset management functions, providing technical support to the setup of asset management organizational structures, business processes, procedures, technology and systems, incorporating IM Managing Assets and FM Hard Services requirements into one cohesive site asset management approach, working across the project team and the end state site engineering team, ensuring both teams integrate and work closely during the project phase, ensuring constant collaboration and a seamless handover from project to operations, ensuring that IDEA and all other related business processes are followed and fully adopted, working in close collaboration with JJIM business units, providing strategic insights into the growth strategy and future pipeline, establishing an End-to-End capital projects management performance framework, defining clear and strategic objectives for capital prioritization, establishing a process excellence framework for strategic large capital projects, utilizing data-driven insights and market intelligence to inform future decision-making, leading the External Manufacturing assessment program, leading and developing a high-performing organization fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and innovation, mentoring and coaching engineering technical leaders and experts and cultivating talent within the organization, collaborating with the Global Engineering Technology (GET) team to ensure alignment with technology standards, project execution and engineering specifications for manufacturing technology, ensuring compliance with policies, procedures, government regulations, and customer specifications, proactively researching and implementing new standards to drive business growth and efficiency, reporting out to senior management regularly on activities and status.

Interfaces include collaborating closely with all E&PS functions, IM business partners, Finance, Procurement, HR, IT, QA, and EHS teams, etc. The key interfaces the TSG Lead works across are: J&J Engineering & Property Services (E&PS), Strategic Project Delivery leadership - Project Director, E&PS Director (design, construction and commissioning), J&J Quality Assurance, J&J Global Engineering and Technology (GET), J&J Site Engineering teams.

Requirements include a dynamic and motivated individual with strong technical background, excellent communication skills and a proven track record of driving engineering excellence to lead the development and implementation of leading-edge engineering standards. The candidate will drive innovative facility design standardization, ensuring seamless integration at all sites. The candidate must have excellent knowledge in the following areas: Facility design, Facility construction, Facility commissioning and qualification, Asset Management, Maintenance, Calibration and Reliability management, Biotherapeutics, Synthetics, Advanced Therapies and Medicinal Products, External Manufacturing Operations.

Qualifications include a minimum of a Bachelor's engineering degree, Master's/MBA/PhD is required, a minimum of 20 years' experience in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, hands on experience designing, constructing, commissioning or qualifying manufacturing process equipment, a minimum of 20 years asset management, maintenance, reliability and project engineering, a minimum of 5 years' experience in a global technical leadership role, a minimum of 10 years large capital project management experience over $500 million, able to balance multiple priorities, communicate and operate with poise and integrity in a sophisticated, high-profile, and evolving environment, must be fluent in written and spoken English, this position requires a minimum of 25% domestic and international travel, the primary work location is a hybrid remote and in office environment.