R&D Engineering Manager

Job Function

R&D Product Development

R&D Mechanical Engineering

People Leader

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States of America;
Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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.

Learn more at  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, 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.

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.

• 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…