Work Schedule
First Shift (Days)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

When you're part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you'll be supported in achieving your career goals.

Position Summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is seeking a highly motivated individual with a strong work ethic to join the team as the Manager - Packaging Engineering! Direct a team of packaging engineers supporting Operations, New Product Introductions and Customers. In this role you will have a great opportunity to engage in team and individual employee development. In addition, this role will collaborate in developing packaging designs to meet customer requirements, identify and facilitate cost-saving projects throughout the plant. As a part of this team we strive to collaborate with multi-functional teams at our Grand Island, NY location to create efficient processes that ensures exceptional customer satisfaction.

• Effectively lead, develop and empower a team.
• Possess excellent communication, both verbal and written, able to educate colleagues and customers on packaging offerings, improvement opportunities, and standard processes. Including proficiency in communicating clearly and concisely to large groups and/ or management.
• Work with the team and independently using knowledge of current package designs, materials, industry requirements, and processes to drive revenue growth, cost savings, and efficiency gains that consider customer and plant requirements.
• Demonstrate excellent follow-through both with daily workload and long-term projects, operating autonomously with minimal guidance.
• Demonstrate packaging knowledge through building prototypes, testing, and validation of the developed design for customer approval and manufacturability.
• Have solid understanding of 3D modeling software, such as Artios or AutoCAD with the ability to read and understand technical drawings.
• Support and/or drive productivity initiatives on packaging by working with the suppliers, procurement, and manufacturing teams.
• Issue primary packaging feasibility assessments on Custom Cell Culture products.
• Packaging engineers have frequent interactions with internal and external customers, sales representatives, product managers and business development professionals on current and new packaging opportunities.
• Support and engage in the transfer of designs, ideas and standard processes to associated manufacturing sites and networks.
• Align with all company safety, quality, and training procedures and regulations.
• Report all non-compliance and support, engage in, and potentially lead teams assigned to making improvements.
• Effectively lead projects as assigned. Plan, perform and evaluate experiments as needed.
• Implement practical process improvements to improve turn-around times inquiries, documentation and record creation.
• May be required to perform other related duties as required and/or assigned.

• Attract, engage, develop, and retain top talent at all levels of the organization.
• Inspire, influence, and empower employees (both direct and indirect teams globally) to overachieve objectives.
• Be a conclusive leader who leads and empowers teams to support impactful short and long-term strategies and action plans that aim for results.
• Develop a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability.
• Evolve the organization as required to support business needs and strengthen the organization.

• A Bachelor's degree in packaging engineering required.
• Previous leadership experience preferred.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and social skills are required to successfully communicate with team members and collaborate with various departments such as Operations, R&D, Product Management, and the Commercial team.
• Strong analytical ability including the ability to effectively use data in problem-solving and to evaluate process changes and impacts.
• Experience working with external customers on their customization needs, requirements gathering, problem-solving, and collaboration to meet their requests.
• Shown capacity for effective leadership, encompassing the utilization of diverse resources, swift responsiveness to changes, comprehensive understanding of decision outcomes, cultivation of collaborative connections, and unwavering focus on customer requirements.
• Strong people leader with experience leading and able to function optimally in a matrix environment.

• 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