Staff Project Manager Advanced Technology

Staff Project Manager Advanced Technology

We are seeking top talent for the Staff Project Manager Advanced Technology role on our DePuy Synthes Orthopaedics team. This position may be based in Boston, MA.

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 the possibilities of Orthopedics? Ready to join a team that's reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems.

Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness.

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone Orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals.

Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes, and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.

Summary:

The Staff Project Manager Advanced Technology is responsible for managing the advanced technology pre-charter funnel and for planning and executing assigned projects within the Advanced Technology group in Digital R&D, ensuring delivery against scope, schedule, cost, and quality in a regulated medical device environment. A primary focus of this role is to run the pre-charter intake process, prioritize and govern the funnel of advanced technology opportunities, track their progress and maturity, and ensure that projects are correctly managed and transferred into New Product Development (NPD) when they reach charter readiness.

Reporting to the Platform Program Manager, this role owns the project-level integrated plan (WBS/IMS), project budget baseline and EVM tracking, project RAID management, change control, and stakeholder communications. The Project Manager coordinates cross-functional execution across software, systems, external partners, clinical and regulatory, and drives disciplined controls to enable predictable delivery outcomes.

You will:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of design engineers, CAD designers/technicians, and documentation specialists (PLM)
• Design for Reliability (DfR) practices, including durability analysis, fatigue assessment, wear modeling, and lifetime testing strategies.
• Design for Manufacturability and Assembly (DfM/DfA) efforts to ensure scalable, repeatable, and cost‑effective production.
• Own and drive mechanical system requirements, ensuring alignment with system‑level requirements, user needs, performance targets, and regulatory constraints
• Identify critical paths during product development, address bottlenecks and risks and facilitate problem solving across R&D teams.
• Partner with manufacturing engineering to optimize component sourcing, assembly processes, tolerances, and inspection methods.
• Oversee and guide tolerance stack‑up analysis, ensuring precision requirements are met for functional performance.
• Ensure appropriate use of analytical and simulation tools (FEA, thermal, kinematic modeling) to support design decisions and risk mitigation.
• Maintain mechanical design documentation, calculations, and analysis outputs suitable for design reviews, audits, and regulatory submissions.
• Collaborate closely with electrical, system, and software teams to ensure seamless mechanical‑electrical‑firmware integration.
• Define and review…