R&D Engineering Manager

R&D Engineering Manager

We are seeking top talent for the R&D Engineering Manager 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 R&D Engineering Manager leads a team responsible for the design, development, and delivery of products across the Power Tools and Sports Capital Platforms. This individual will lead a blended team of employees and contract engineers, designers, and drafters, working cross-functionally with mechanical, electrical, systems, software, quality, and regulatory teams to ensure product design, drawings, and documents are accurate, complete, and controlled within the PLM system.

The R&D Engineering Manager 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.

The R&D Engineering Manager leads a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for the creation, release, and lifecycle management of product designs, engineering drawings, Bills of Materials (BOMs), and technical documentation within the PTC Windchill Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system. This role ensures engineering data integrity, configuration management, compliance with design standards, and efficient product development processes from concept through production and sustaining engineering.

The manager collaborates closely with Product Development, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Regulatory, and Information Technology to establish best practices for engineering documentation, change management, and product configuration control.

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 mechanical design concepts, trade studies, and architecture decisions to balance performance, reliability, manufacturability, cost, and serviceability.
• 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 design engineers, CAD designers, and documentation specialists (PLM) fostering technical excellence, accountability, and collaboration.
• Assign work, set technical direction, conduct design reviews, and…