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Job Function:

Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function:

Automation Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Zuchwil, Switzerland

Job Description:

DePuy Synthes is recruiting for a Robotics Deployment Coordinator

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopedics business to establish a standalone orthopedics 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.

Role Overview

The Robotics Deployment Coordinator supports the operational deployment of robotics programmes across the regions, ensuring site readiness, launch coordination, post-launch support, and handover into business-as-usual operations. This role is focused on day-to-day coordination, action tracking, stakeholder follow-up, data maintenance, meeting organisation, issue escalation, and practical support to ensure agreed deployment plans are delivered effectively. The position works closely with supply chain, commercial, operations, customer service, project teams, and global stakeholders to support robotic NPIs and line extensions, maintain clear visibility of progress, and help ensure deployment activities are completed in a compliant, timely, and customer-focused manner.

Key Responsibilities

Deployment Coordination and Execution Support

• Coordinate day-to-day deployment activities for agreed robotics initiatives, ensuring actions, owners, timelines, and dependencies are clearly tracked.
• Support cross-functional teams by maintaining deployment plans, trackers, meeting outputs, and status updates.
• Follow up on open actions, highlight delays or blockers, and escalate risks or decisions requiring management attention.

Launch Readiness and Operational Support

• Support readiness activities for robotic New Product Introduction launches and line extensions, ensuring local teams understand required actions and timelines.
• Coordinate hyper-care activities following deployment, including issue logging, action follow-up, status reporting, and transition support.
• Help identify practical operational impacts across supply chain, customer service, and related teams, and support completion of required preparation activities.
• Support the handover of deployment outputs into business-as-usual processes, ensuring key documents, owners, and open actions are clear.

Project Administration and Governance Support

• Maintain project trackers, action logs, risk and issue logs, meeting notes, readiness checklists, and deployment documentation.
• Organise regular working team meetings, prepare agendas, capture minutes, and ensure follow-up actions are completed.
• Prepare clear status updates and inputs for governance forums, highlighting progress, risks, issues, decisions needed, and next steps.
• Ensure deployment information is accurate, accessible, and kept up to date for all relevant stakeholders.

Issue Management, Compliance and Continuous Improvement

• Monitor operational risks, issues, dependencies, and action gaps, escalating where support or decisions are required.
• Support mitigation actions by coordinating follow-up with relevant owners and tracking progress through to closure.
• Identify opportunities to simplify deployment routines, improve documentation, and strengthen repeatable ways of working.
• Follow all applicable laws, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements, maintaining high standards of professionalism and ethics.

Key Qualifications & Experience

Required Qualifications

Experience

• +3 years’ experience in supply chain, customer service, operations, project coordination, or deployment support within a complex business environment.
• Experience coordinating activities across multiple stakeholders, tracking actions, preparing updates, and supporting operational delivery.
• Experience working in cross-functional or matrixed teams, with the ability to follow up effectively and maintain delivery discipline.

Skills & Capabilities

• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage trackers, actions, timelines, meeting outputs, and documentation accurately.
• Clear communicator who can coordinate across different teams, follow up on actions, and provide concise status updates.
• Practical, resilient, and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage competing priorities and support delivery in a changing environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience within MedTech and/or Orthopaedics sectors.
• Experience supporting product launches, deployment activities, operational readiness, or post-launch support.
• Experience using project trackers, collaboration tools, reporting templates, and standard operating documentation.

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Controls Compliance, Critical Thinking, Industrial Robotics, Industry Analysis, Innovation, Lean Supply Chain Management, Machine Learning (ML), Management Systems Implementation, Organizing, Problem Solving, Project Management, Prototyping, Robotic Automation, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Application, Smart Systems, Technologically Savvy