Work Schedule
Second Shift (Afternoons)

Environmental Conditions
Able to lift 40 lbs. without assistance, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.), Strong Odors (chemical, lubricants, biological products etc.), Will work with hazardous/toxic materials

Job Description

Team Lead, Formulation Manufacturing

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!.

• Accomplishes manufacturing staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring time and attendance, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
• Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; encourages cross-training of employees in other areas across the manufacturing floor; developing personal growth opportunities.
• Resolves personnel problems by analyzing data; investigating issues; identifying solutions; recommending actions.
• Ensure safety is a top priority with active measures in place, assist in inspections and promoting workplace safety. Maintains safe and clean work environment by coaching team members on the use of equipment, resources, maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Ensure full adherence to 5S practices.
• Ensure achievement of production goals against stated capacity targets.
• Develop reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points; ability to Process change orders, ECO, DCO, deviations and non-conformances reports.
• Initiating and fostering a spirit of teamwork within and between departments.
• Completes production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel; accomplishing work results; establishing priorities, daily targets, and responsibilities to the team; supervising progress; revising schedules; resolving problems; reporting results of the processing flow on shift production summaries.
• Effectively use prioritization mechanisms to apply resources to complete the work on-hand and/or raise issues to leadership so that resource needs can be addressed.
• Ensures operation of equipment by calling for repairs; evaluating new equipment and techniques and follow-up status of ME tickets.
• Manage key performance indicators for projects in area of responsibility that lead change and visibility to the team and leadership.
• Provide feedback, ideas and suggestions to new and/or improved lab techniques, protocols, processes, special handling of the product and equipment.
• Continuously strive to improve output goals. Demonstrate good time management resulting in efficiency. Support cost improvement initiatives by reducing failures, improving capacity and using supplies wisely. Reduce work in process, queues and cycle times.

• Associate degree in a business or technical field from certified institution or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of chemical or device manufacturing experience with minimum of 2 years' experience leading teams through projects and/or against established goals.

• Proven ability to track status and adjust resources to meet the needs of a multi-product manufacturing team.
• Driven and self-motivated.
• Ability to develop and apply data, metrics, and continuous improvement tools to consistently achieve organizational objectives.
• Maintain a good level of communication at all levels.
• Reasonable understanding of digital literacy including Microsoft office and ERP systems.

• Constant Physical requirements:

• Occasional Physical requirements:

• Environmental Conditions: Exposure to machinery, sharp and moving parts, electrical and other energy sources.

• 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