Engineer III, Plastics Technical Sourcing Engineering

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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll discover meaningful work that positively impacts 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 worlds toughest challenges such as protecting the environment ensuring food safety and helping find cures for cancer.

The Engineer III Technical Sourcing Engineering (TSE) is responsible for providing technical leadership across Thermo Fisher Scientifics plastics supply base. This role partners with Procurement R&D Operations Quality Regulatory Product Management and external suppliers to drive supplier technical excellence throughout the product lifecycle.

The successful candidate will lead supplier qualification and development activities alternate sourcing and dual sourcing initiatives manufacturing transfers capacity expansions product scale-up and continuous improvement projects. This position also plays a key role in resolving supplier-related technical issues supporting New Product Introductions (NPIs) and identifying opportunities for cost savings productivity improvements and supply chain resiliency.

As a member of the Technical Sourcing Engineering team you will collaborate across a highly matrixed global organization to ensure robust manufacturing processes and reliable supplier performance. Responsibilities include:

• Lead technical sourcing projects including alternate sourcing dual sourcing supplier transfers and manufacturing resourcing initiatives.

• Partner with suppliers to improve manufacturing capability capacity process controls and product quality.

• Support New Product Introduction (NPI) programs by ensuring supplier readiness manufacturability and successful commercialization.

• Investigate and resolve supplier manufacturing and quality issues using structured problem-solving methodologies.

• Drive productivity and cost reduction initiatives through design optimization process improvements and supplier innovation.

• Evaluate manufacturing processes including injection molding blow molding thermoforming tubing extrusion film converting die cutting and secondary operations.

• Provide technical expertise during supplier audits process validations tooling reviews and engineering change activities.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including R&D Manufacturing Engineering Procurement Quality Regulatory Affairs and Operations to deliver successful project outcomes.

• Develop technical documentation including project plans engineering reports validation protocols risk assessments and supplier qualification documentation.

• Support supplier performance monitoring and continuous improvement initiatives across a global supplier network.

Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering Plastics Engineering Materials Science Manufacturing Engineering or another related engineering discipline required.

• 3 years of engineering experience in plastics manufacturing product development manufacturing engineering supplier engineering or technical sourcing.

• Experience working with plastic manufacturing processes including injection molding blow molding thermoforming extrusion or related technologies.

• Experience managing technical projects with external suppliers.

• Experience supporting regulated industries such as medical device life sciences biotechnology pharmaceutical or other highly regulated manufacturing environments preferred.

• Strong knowledge of plastics processing tooling design process development and troubleshooting.

• Understanding of Design for Manufacturability (DFM) Design for Assembly (DFA) and process capability analysis.

• Experience with supplier qualification validation and process transfer activities.

• Familiarity with Design of Experiments (DOE) Statistical Process Control (SPC) root cause analysis FMEA and other quality engineering tools.

• Knowledge of engineering change management and regulated quality systems including ISO 9001 and ISO 13485.

• Experience with CAD software such as SolidWorks Creo or equivalent.

• Working knowledge of enterprise systems such as SAP Agile PLM Oracle or MasterControl preferred.

• Strong project management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

• Excellent analytical technical problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience preparing technical reports and presenting to cross-functional teams.

• Ability to build collaborative relationships across internal teams and external suppliers.

• Self-motivated results-oriented and capable of working independently in a fast-paced global environment.

• Experience with sterilization processes secondary manufacturing operations and automated assembly is desirable.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite including Excel PowerPoint Word and Project.

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 15%.

This position does not offer relocation assistance.