Job Description

Manufacturing Supervisor, Filling

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 a consistent level of energy and passion. The candidate must also be strategic, astute, and forward-thinking, as well as inspiring, empowering, and collaborating with others. The role is responsible for leading the Filling Team 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
• Collaborate with other supervisors on 1st shift to ensure a smooth handoff between shifts.
• Creates work center performance goals and leads each work center and each individual toward achieving those goals. Performs full performance evaluations for all direct reports.
• Recommends and coordinates measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of product
• 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.
• Performs full performance evaluations for direct reports.
• Creates and supports career development plans for direct reports.
• Drives Practical Process Improvements (PPI) with a high level of team member involvement and engagement and applies lean methodologies to realize process efficiencies.
• Recommends and coordinates measures to improve processes, quality, and safety.
• Effectively reviews metrics to benchmark and drive team performance.
• Works with support staff such as the Equipment Services Team, IT, Quality, Manufacturing Teams, Planning and Scheduling to complete manufacturing schedule to meet customer demands.
• Effectively communicates barriers or issues and obtains needed support for resolution.

Keys to Success:

Education and Experience:

• Associate degree is required plus 4+ years of experience. Bachelor’s degree in business management, computer science, biological or chemical science or other related subject area is preferred plus 2+years of experience.
• 2+ years of experience in a role demonstrating strong leadership abilities with the capability to demonstrate diverse resources, respond quickly, understand the impact of changes and decisions, facilitate agreement, build collaborative relationships, and understand customer needs.
• Demonstrated ability in or supporting manufacturing.
• 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).
• Able to work with numerous departments and varying levels of employees.
• Requires knowledge of manufacturing processes and inter-departmental responsibilities.
• 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 working in a fast-paced environment.
• Consistent, dependable, and accurate in carrying out responsibilities.
• Displays positive demeanor toward job and others.
• Results-oriented and data-driven.
• Project management skills.
• Proactive approach that anticipates needs and problems while creating solutions.

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

The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $79,100.00–$118,700.00.

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