Manufacturing Supervisor, Formulations & Buffers

Manufacturing Supervisor, Formulations & Buffers

Shift: Day shift

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving sophisticated analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies, or growing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them.

Discover Impactful Work:

The Manufacturing Supervisor is critical for influencing and motivating your team to tackle new challenges and realize their full potential, ultimately facilitating a positive and engaging work environment. This individual will lead and develop team members and use cross-functional relationships to realize department objectives in alignment with organizational goals. This is an equal-opportunity position.

A Day in the Life:

The successful candidate demonstrates efficiency, contagious optimism, and a “can do” demeanor. They lead by example and hold themselves and others accountable while maintaining productive and professional relationships within the team. They must be approachable and open and maintain consistent energy and passion. The candidate must also be strategic, astute, forward-thinking, inspiring, empowering, and collaborating with others. The role is responsible for leading multiple Formulations and Buffers teams and systems/processes with responsibilities for safety, quality, compliance, cost, and human resources.

The primary responsibilities are as follows:

• Promotes and facilitates the safest working environment for all employees.
• Creates work center performance goals and leads each work center and each individual toward achieving those goals. Performs full performance evaluations for all direct employees.
• Efficiently facilitates communication between technical subject matter experts (SMEs) and the manufacturing team, to enhance processes and improve overall quality.
• Recommends and coordinates measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of products.
• Creates daily schedule and weekly goals for the team specific to work order readiness, quality, and support of internal customers.
• Works with product realization teams to facilitate the introduction of new products into manufacturing.
• Schedules team overtime, plans time off and supervises overall attendance.
• Creates and supports career development plans for direct employees.
• Drives Practical Process Improvements (PPI) with a high level of team member involvement and engagement and applies lean methodologies to realize process efficiencies.
• Effectively reviews metrics to benchmark and drive team performance.
• Works with support staff such as the Equipment Services Team, Engineering, IT, Quality, and Manufacturing Teams, as well as Planning and Scheduling, to complete manufacturing schedules to meet customer demands.

Keys to Success:

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in biological or chemical science, engineering, or other related subject area required.
• 2+ years in manufacturing or research laboratory required.
• 1+ years in a leadership role highly preferred.
• Must demonstrate strong leadership abilities with capability to demonstrate diverse resources, respond quickly, understand impact of changes and decisions, facilitate agreement, build collaborative relationships and understand customer needs.
• Experience with ISO or cGMP regulated manufacturing environment.
• Experience with an ERP system.
• Experience with Practical Process Improvement (PPI) Systems and tools (or similar Continuous Improvement and Lean Systems).
• Ability to work with numerous departments and varying levels of employees.
• Must ensure all team members work safely with chemicals and hazardous materials while adhering to ergonomic guidelines.
• Must be flexible to work varying schedules and hours as needed.

Knowledge and Skills

• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Software specifically Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Collaborative skills and the ability to influence others without authority.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Energized while working in a fast-paced environment.
• Consistent, diligent and accurate in carrying out responsibilities.
• Displays positive demeanor toward job and others.
• Results oriented and data driven.
• Greets challenge and change as opportunity.
• Is curious, inquisitive, innovative and never satisfied with the status quo.
• Displays strong project management skills.

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!

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. We will gladly provide reasonable accommodations covered under the ADA.

Compensation and Benefits

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