Job Description

Job Title: Director Site Head Cell Therapy
Requisition ID: 152450BR

When you2019re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you2019ll 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 you2019ll be supported in achieving your career goals.

Location/Division Specific Information
Drug Substance Division (DSD)/Biologics Business Unit/San Francisco, USA

How will you make an impact?
When your part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, you will do challenging work, and be part of a team that values performance, quality, and innovation. As part of a successful, growing organization you will be encouraged to perform at your best. With revenues of $20+ billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.

In this role, the successful candidate will partner, lead, and manage the Biologic2019s business units San Francisco site from an operation and engineering perspective. S/he will report to the head of the Cell Therapy business unit to deliver a new Development and GMP facility in San Francisco within the stated project timeline. In addition, to being a critical part of the construction and qualification process, this role will also have the responsibility to build out a team within the operations, engineering, facilities and site services functions to maintain a GMP operation from these aspects. This position will lead the site leadership team and will have a significant role in customer relationships, growing talent and building trust with our partners driving innovation in cell therapy services.

What will you do?

* Build the best team! Lead talent acquisition of key talent to deliver a world class cell therapy site.
* Construction Readiness - Lead the design, construction, and qualification of a new cell therapy site in San Francisco in conjunction with Thermo Fisher corporate engineering resources. Construction and readiness include but is not limited to facilities, project engineering, metrology, site services, reliability engineering, CQV and plant engineering.
* Operations Readiness 2013 lead operations start up activities to deliver first tech transfer to GMP services. Build the organization (internal and external teams) to deliver on operational deliverables needed create a scalable and sustainable GMP organization capable of delivering on our customer commitments.
* Generates plans and executes multi-project plan (cross functional), which meets financial and manufacturing targets.
* Understands and provides direction on equipment design, procurement, installation, commissioning, processing, training, and validation to generate GMP services in alignment with regulatory policy.
* Understands and provides direction on new building design, clean-room design, automation infrastructure design, hiring, training and general site related projects.
* Supports the generation of structured work-plans and consistently works to improve department workflow and standards.
* Works closely with Quality, Validation, Facilities, and other functions to execute projects without impeding production.
* Manages monthly roll-up of project budgets and expense budget associated with process equipment repairs.
* Evaluates 201Cfacility fit201D for new projects / processes and develops estimates for any required modifications or additional equipment loads.
* Provides technical evaluation and input for Quality Assurance initiatives.
* Works closely with finance to meet financial targets of each individual project and the site from a capital expense and general expense perspective.
* Understands client relationships and assists site leadership team in securing new business at the site.
* Works with partners to understand their needs and manages the technical relationship with partners involved in the building.
* Promote a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, transparency.
* Safeguard the team from outside distractions and obstacles to ensure key milestones and deliverables at met.
* Other duties as defined within the scope of the position.

How will you get here?
Education

* Requires a bachelor2019s degree in a scientific or engineering discipline with 12+ years of experience or, Master2019s degree in a specific scientific discipline and/or engineering with 8+ years or leadership experience.

Experience
* Demonstrated ability to lead people, work effectively with cross functional teams and to facilitate cooperation across functional boundaries.
* Experience leading scheduling projects, reporting project status and costs, and consulting with contractors and vendors.
* Experience in managing external consultants, contractors, vendors, and multiple stakeholders.
* Experience with pharmaceutical production and GMP environments.
* Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills, including ability to synthesize and deliver a clear overview of the strategy, opportunity, and risks for Corporate executives.
* Strong leader who can influence and drive alignment with other senior cross-functional leaders on key strategic, operational, and financial decisions.
* Ability to rapidly adapt and respond to changes in environment and priorities.
* Travel up to 10% as needed to other cell therapy locations or sites within the network.
* Previous experience in managing a team comprised of engineering and facilities personnel within a GMP environment.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 75,000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission2014enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

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