Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards, Office, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.)

Job Description

Job Title: Downstream Manufacturing Manager, Gels / Buffers / Quality Control

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every day 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.

• Promotes and facilitates the safest working environment for all employees and ensures all team members work safely with equipment, chemicals, and hazardous materials.
• Follows all ISO & Regulatory Compliance standards.
• Effectively leads manufacturing scientists and other people leaders to produce high quality reagent buffers, protein formulations, and electrophoresis gels.
• Ensures proper staffing and training for each manufacturing team to meet compliance requirements and customer demand efficiently.
• Drives Practical Process Improvements (PPI) with a high level of team member involvement and engagement.
• Supports career development plans and performs team performance evaluations.
• Effectively communicates barriers or issues and obtains needed support for resolution.
• Accountable for ensuring system data integrity for manufacturing data elements (BOM, Routing, ACQ, Lead Times).
• Handles expenses to meet budgets and financial objectives and proactively seeks opportunities to drive improvement of the operating results.
• Works with team members and planning/purchasing teams to develop and implement a manufacturing schedule to meet customer demands.
• Participates in internal and external audits, responds to audit observations, and identifies and implements appropriate corrective and preventive actions.
• Acts as a liaison with Product Managers/Business Leaders and members of other operations departments and sites.
• Performs other duties and cross-training as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree required, advanced degree such as an MBA is a plus.

• 3+ years of progression in manufacturing leadership roles of growing responsibility, with a preference for experience in reagent consumables manufacturing settings requiring high reliance on effective equipment maintenance and capital planning.
• 2+ years of experience in ISO or cGMP-regulated manufacturing environment.
• Solid ERP system knowledge and an understanding of cost accounting/standard manufacturing financials.

• Must demonstrate strong leadership abilities with capability to use diverse resources, respond quickly, understand impact of changes and decisions, facilitate agreement, build collaborative relationships and understand customer needs
• Knowledge of process engineering, standardization and documentation and strong organizational and leadership skills, with proven track record to successfully plan, implement and coordinate programs to achieve business objectives.
• Possesses a continuous process improvement approach with the ability to effectively lead and manage change.
• Is energized working in a fast-paced environment.
• Consistent, diligent and accurate in carrying out responsibilities.
• Is curious, inquisitive, innovative, never satisfied with the status quo.
• Possesses a solid working knowledge of other business functions such as Logistics, Finance, Engineering, Planning, EH&S, facilities, in addition to Manufacturing and Quality.
• Proficient in PC applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.

• 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