Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that positively impacts a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life daily to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, ensuring our food is safe, or helping find cures for cancer.
Discover Impactful Work:
Engineer III, Plastics Technical Sourcing Engineering (TSE), engages in the technical aspects of our plastics products and spending. They will lead alternate sourcing, dual sourcing, or resourcing projects with our supply base, lead product scale-up and capacity expansions, resolve plastics-related quality issues, participate in cost savings and productivity initiatives, and engage with New Product Introductions (NPIs).
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A Day in the Life:
Joining the Technical Sourcing Engineering (TSE) team means working closely with a multi-functional group of teams, such as R&D, Engineering, Quality, Procurement, Regulatory, Product Management, Operations, and others. You may be engaged in all or some phases of a product life cycle, anywhere from conception to the product's end of life. Your projects may include multiple process technologies such as injection molding, blow molding, thermoforming, extrusions, die cutting, and secondary processes such as pad printing, plasma treatment, and sterilization. The ideal candidate would be a self-starter knowledgeable in tooling, molding processing, and project management. Experience with sourcing and procurement is desired.
How will you get here?
Education:
- A Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Plastics Engineering, Materials Science, or other technical field is required.
Experience:
- 3+ years of hands-on product design, new product development, tooling, engineering, and manufacturing experience required.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
- Molding processing, troubleshooting.
- Tooling design experience and procurement knowledge is desired.
- Plastics industry experience is a must.
- Proficiency in SolidWorks, Creo, or equivalent.
- Knowledge of SAP, Agile, and Oracle.
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Project, etc.
- Design of Experiments, SPC, and statistical tools for molding process development and troubleshooting.
- Ability to work within a highly matrixed organization.
- Hard-working, results-oriented, and motivated to work efficiently.
- Advanced technical writing skills to produce reports, documents, and project timelines.
- Experience in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and regulated industries is a plus.
- Experienced with secondary operations and sterilization.
- Travel - Up to 15% domestically and internationally.
This position does not offer relocation benefits.
Benefits:
We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $91,700.00-$137,525.00.
This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
- At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
- Employees' Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards