Senior Manager Manufacturing Engineering

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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single 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 worlds toughest challenges like protecting the environment making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Discover Impactful Work:

The Senior Manager Manufacturing Engineering will lead strategy and performance of off-the-shelf equipment and custom automation in diagnostic/medical device operations.

A day in the Life:

Automation Strategy & Leadership

• Develop and implement a world-class automation roadmap for diagnostic product manufacturing.
• Provide technical leadership for the selection and integration of physical automation platforms (e.g. robotic liquid handling systems industrial filling and packaging robotic packaging SCADA).
• Champion standardization modularity and scalability of automation solutions.
• Lead train and mentor the team through Practical Process Improvement (PPI).
• Identify areas for improvement and cost savings through equipment lifecycle management.

Project Execution

• Coordinate end-to-end automation projectsfrom concept justification timelines budgets prioritisation URS generation vendor selection design/build FAT/SAT installation CQV (commissioning qualification and validation).
• Drive improvements in efficiency repeatability and data integrity through automation upgrades or new installations.

Team Management

• Lead mentor and develop a multidisciplinary team of automation and process engineers technicians and system integrators.
• Define performance objectives training needs and career development plans for the team.

Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensure the team process and systems align with applicable regulations (FDA 21 CFR Part 820 Part 11 ISO 13485 IVDR ISO 17025).
• Own or support equipment/software validation protocols and risk assessments (e.g. FMEA).
• Support internal and external audits (e.g. FDA Notified Bodies).

Multi-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with R&D and Manufacturing Sciences to enable design-for-automation in new product development.
• Collaborate with QA IT and CSV teams to ensure systems are qualified maintained and detailed appropriately.
• Support tech transfer and scale-up activities by integrating automation into new or existing production lines.

• Manage cross-functional projects from initiation to completion.

Keys to Success:

Education

• Bachelors or masters in engineering (e.g. Electrical Mechanical Automation or equivalent).

Experience

• 8 years of experience in automation engineering with 5 years in people management roles.

Knowledge Skills Abilities

• Demonstrated experience with automation in diagnostics medical devices or life sciences manufacturing.
• Project management experience a plus.
• Process Engineering experience a plus.
• Six Sigma experience a plus.

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!

Compensation and Benefits

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

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