Senior Manager Power Tools, R&D Mechanical Engineering

Senior Manager Power Tools, R&D Mechanical Engineering

We are seeking top talent for the Senior Manager Power Tools, R&D Mechanical Engineering role on our DePuy Synthes Orthopaedics team. This position may be based in Raynham, MA or Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

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.

Summary:

The Senior Manager Power Tools, R&D Mechanical Engineering leads the mechanical engineering function responsible for the design, development, and delivery of high performance, reliable, handheld powered solutions and accessories. This role oversees a team of mechanical engineers and works cross-functionally with electrical, systems, software, manufacturing, clinical, quality, and regulatory teams to ensure robust, reliable, and manufacturable handheld powered solutions.

The Senior Manager Power Tools, R&D Mechanical Engineering is accountable for driving mechanical architecture, detailed design, and integration from early concept through commercialization, ensuring designs meet performance, safety, reliability, cost, and regulatory requirements. This role combines technical leadership, people management, and cross-functional collaboration, enabling the successful execution of complex programs in a regulated environment.

You will:

• Lead a team of mechanical engineers responsible for the detailed design of handheld powered devices, including precision assemblies and mechanisms, gear-based transmission systems, instruments and attachments.
• Define and review mechanical design concepts, trade studies, and architecture decisions to balance performance, reliability, manufacturability, cost, and serviceability.
• 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.
• Ensure robust design margin and implementation of lessons learned from field data, validation testing, and post-market feedback.
• Oversee and guide tolerance stack-up analysis, ensuring precision requirements are met for functional performance.
• Lead and review thermal analysis, including heat generation, dissipation, thermal deformation, and impact on mechanical performance and reliability.
• 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.
• Support verification and validation (V&V) activities by ensuring mechanical requirements are testable, traceable, and validated through appropriate methods.
• Participate in and contribute to risk management activities, including DFMEA and system-level hazard analysis.
• Ensure mechanical risk controls are correctly implemented, verified, and validated.
• Review test results, investigate failures, and drive corrective actions for mechanical issues identified during development, validation, or field use.
• Ensure mechanical designs comply with applicable regulatory and quality standards (e.g., FDA, ISO 13485, IEC 60601 standards, material compliance).
• Partner with quality and regulatory teams to support design controls, audits, and regulatory submissions.
• Ensure documentation, design outputs, and change management comply with quality system requirements.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of mechanical engineers, fostering technical excellence, accountability, and collaboration.
• Assign work, set technical direction, conduct design reviews, and provide coaching to support professional growth.
• Plan and execute mechanical engineering deliverables in alignment with program schedules and business objectives.
• Prepare annual and multi-year budget and…