Job Description

Job Title: Lead Packaging/Labeling Technician
Requisition ID: 153256BR

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.

Location: Greenville, NC

How will you make an impact?
Using appropriate interpersonal styles, methods, mechanical ability, and leadership skills to guide individuals and groups (subordinate, peers, or superiors) toward task accomplishment in the optimum operations of packaging lines. Interacting with several levels of the organization via phone, email, and in person. Fast Paced work environment that requires attention to detail and accuracy.

Thorough knowledge and understanding of procedure and policy in relation to production is essential. Typical shift is 12-hour days on a 3-2-2 rotation; 7:00a-7:00p.
What will you do?

* Ensure operations are performed in a safe and responsible manner striving to create an injury-free and incident-free workplace.
* Coordinate and delegate tasks and motivate personnel to ensure finished product is in accordance to cGMP requirements.
* Commit to an action or develop an alternative course of action that is based on logical assumptions and factual information to meet production schedules and targets in accordance with changing priorities. Take into consideration resources and constraints.
* Gather information to accurately identify the root cause of problems in equipment or work processes. Take corrective action in a timely manner.
* Troubleshoot operational and production problems in order to identify appropriate corrective actions.
* Knowledge of the disassembly and assembly of mechanical, electrical/electronic assemblies and equipment to include repairs/replacements of major components working from blueprints, assembly diagrams, electrical/electronic, pneumatic and hydraulic schematics, or other technical instructions.
* Proactively communicate and work to resolve any production, quality or safety issues.
* Foster crew teamwork in such a way that promotes increasing employee knowledge and skills.
* Must possess mechanical, electrical/electronic, pneumatic, and hydraulic knowledge concerning industrial equipment specific to the pharmaceutical industry.
* Comply with all job-related safety, cGMP, and other department procedural requirements.
* Perform other duties as assigned.

How will you get here?
Education:

* High School Diploma or equivalent required. Some college preferred.

Experience:

* Must have at least 3 years of manufacturing or pharmaceutical experience and 1 year in a leadership role is preferred.
* Experience in FDA regulated industry (preferably Pharmaceutical).
* Lean Manufacturing experience (Six Sigma, 5S, Kaizen, etc.).
* Solid dosage form experience, other dosage forms a plus

Equivalency:

* With an associate degree, 2 years of manufacturing or pharmaceutical experience and 1 year in a leadership role will be considered.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

* Drive fork truck and other mobile equipment to relocate product and components as needed.
* Demonstrate punctuality and sense of responsibility through adherence to department attendance guidelines.
* Plan, prepare and execute a work routine that will ensure that all necessary tasks are completed accurately and in a timely manner to ensure a quality product as well as schedule adherence.
* Lead and motivate all crew members in the area to ensure that the tasks required are completed in a timely manner as well as accurately.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $25 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 75,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.
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.