Team Leader, QC

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

EXPERIENCE:

• 3+ years of clinical laboratory experience
• Team Leadership / Supervisor experience

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:

• Ability to use critical judgment in a very fast paced product or process problems under immediate time constraints.
• Validated leadership and supervisor skills and an ability to delegate work assignments to employees.
• Knowledge of Quality Control principles, statistics and computerization.
• In-depth knowledge of reagents and instrument systems, as well as the analytical support instrumentation.
• Broad technical knowledge encompassing diverse product lines and a proven record to troubleshoot elaborate problems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to resolve testing rapidly and/or procedural problems.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and be detail oriented.
• Strong “interpersonal skills” to be able to engage with various personalities and levels within the organization.
• Ability to review current processes and implement efficiency improvements.
• Demonstrate the Thermo Fisher values (The Four I’s) – Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement

• Acts as a leader in the team, both in terms of laboratory processes and team leadership.
• Ensures new hires receive accurate orientation and training.
• Train laboratory personnel on Lab procedures and operations of instrumentation and equipment.
• Work with manager to identify issues, resources needs and improvement opportunities.
• Monitor, assess and offer feedback on employee performance through PMD process.
• Continuously assess work area for unsafe conditions and take immediate action to improve unsafe conditions.
• Perform laboratory analysis on products and raw materials following established QC laboratory procedures.
• Assist in troubleshooting and problem solving as required.
• Preparing schedules, provides manager with daily schedule of activities, assigns day-to-day testing responsibilities, and follows up with the technicians.
• Facilitate workflow in laboratory. Provide tools for improvement when
• Troubleshoots test procedures and/or instrumental when problems arise, figures out appropriate course of action.
• Aid in investigations and/or experiments to assess product problems, under the direction of the manager and/or scientists.
• Evaluates analytical results and confirms conformance to specification. Identifies deviations and trends, and out of specification events.
• Maintains instrumentation and equipment in accordance with manufacturers labeling and in-hours audit and calibrations procedures.
• Prepares data summaries and/or reports for technical input, writes and reviews departmental procedures.
• Maintains all required records/logs in accordance with procedures and GMP.
• Ensures required maintenance and operations of laboratory equipment and instrumentation is performed in accordance with quality audits and maintenance procedures to assure accuracy and confidence in performance.
• Other duties as required.