Supervisor, Quality Control

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

Job Title: Supervisor, Quality Control
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, ensuring our food is safe, or helping find cures for cancer.

EDUCATION

• Bachelors degree required, advanced degree such as an MBA is a plus.

EXPERIENCE

• 1+ years of a leadership role, with a preference for experience in reagent consumables quality control settings.
• 1+ years of experience in ISO or cGMP-regulated manufacturing environment.
• ERP system knowledge.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Must demonstrate strong leadership abilities with capability to use diverse resources, respond quickly, understand impact of changes and decisions, facilitate agreement, build collaborative relationships and understand customer needs
• Knowledge of process engineering, standardization and documentation and strong organizational and leadership skills, with proven track record to successfully plan, implement and coordinate projects to achieve business objectives.
• Possesses a continuous process improvement approach with the ability to effectively lead and manage change.
• Is energized working in a fast-paced environment
• Consistent, diligent and accurate in carrying out responsibilities
• Is curious, inquisitive, innovative, never satisfied with the status quo
• Possesses a basic working knowledge of other business functions such as Logistics, Finance, Engineering, Planning, EH&S, facilities, in addition to Manufacturing and Quality.
• Proficient in PC applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.

• Promotes and facilitates the safest working environment for all employees and ensures all team members work safely with equipment, chemicals, and hazardous materials.
• Follows all ISO & Regulatory Compliance standards.
• Effectively leads scientists in Quality Control work centers responsible for product testing.
• Ensures proper staffing and training for their team to efficiently meet compliance requirements and customer demand.
• Drives Practical Process Improvements (PPI) with a high level of team member involvement and engagement.
• Supports career development plans and performs team performance evaluations.
• Effectively communicates barriers or issues and obtains needed support for resolution.
• Accountable for ensuring system data integrity for SKU data elements (BOM, Routing, ACQ, Lead Times) related to quality control processes.
• Handles expenses to meet budgets and financial objectives as well as proactively seeks opportunities to drive improvement of the operating results.
• Works with team members and planning/purchasing teams to develop and implement a product testing schedule to meet customer demands.
• Participates in internal and external audits, responds to audit observations, and identifies and implements appropriate corrective and preventive actions.
• Performs other duties and cross-training as assigned