Senior Manager Power Tools, R&D Mechanical Engineering

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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.

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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.

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.

• 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…