Team Leader, Formulation Manufacturing

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Proven ability to track status and adjust resources to meet the needs of a multi-product manufacturing team.
• Driven and self-motivated.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and apply data, metrics, and continuous improvement tools to consistently achieve organizational objectives.
• Maintain a good level of communication at all levels.
• Reasonable understanding of digital literacy including Microsoft office and ERP systems.

PHYSICAL/ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Constant Physical requirements:

Siting, Stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, talking, hearing, motions, and keyboarding. Visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, operation of machines, using measurement devices.

• Occasional Physical requirements:

Climbing, squatting, and crawling twisting, pushing, pulling, lifting, fingering, grasping, feeling, pinching, neck rotations. Exerting up to 50 pounds of force.

• Environmental Conditions: Exposure to machinery, sharp and moving parts, electrical and other energy sources.

• Accomplishes manufacturing staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring time and attendance, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
• Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; encourages cross-training of employees in other areas across the manufacturing floor; developing personal growth opportunities.
• Resolves personnel problems by analyzing data; investigating issues; identifying solutions; recommending actions.
• Ensure safety is a top priority with active measures in place, assist in inspections and promoting workplace safety. Maintains safe and clean work environment by coaching team members on the use of equipment, resources, maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Ensure full adherence to 5S practices.
• Ensure achievement of production goals against stated capacity targets.
• Develop reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points; ability to Process change orders, ECO, DCO, deviations and non-conformances reports.
• Initiating and fostering a spirit of teamwork within and between departments.
• Completes production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel; accomplishing work results; establishing priorities, daily targets, and responsibilities to the team; supervising progress; revising schedules; resolving problems; reporting results of the processing flow on shift production summaries.
• Effectively use prioritization mechanisms to apply resources to complete the work on-hand and/or raise issues to leadership so that resource needs can be addressed.
• Ensures operation of equipment by calling for repairs; evaluating new equipment and techniques and follow-up status of ME tickets.
• Manage key performance indicators for projects in area of responsibility that lead change and visibility to the team and leadership.
• Provide feedback, ideas and suggestions to new and/or improved lab techniques, protocols, processes, special handling of the product and equipment.
• Continuously strive to improve output goals. Demonstrate good time management resulting in efficiency. Support cost improvement initiatives by reducing failures, improving capacity and using supplies wisely. Reduce work in process, queues and cycle times.