**Work Schedule** Standard (Mon-Fri) **Environmental Conditions** Laboratory Setting **Job Description** 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 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 world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer. **Location/Division Specific Information** Fair Lawn, NJ – Corporate Global Business Services (GBS) Division. **Discover Impactful Work:** The Staff Scientiest will make an impact by leadinng, or contributing to projects for sourcing/insourcing/outsourcing changes of processes, raw materials and/or finished goods for the Chemical & Biological commodity. This includes collaborating with multiple Thermo Fisher groups, along with senior management and our external vendors to affect and/or implement change. Furthermore, encouraging technical relationships, and handle conflicts with confidence and integrity. **A Day in the Life:** + Proven track record to lead and/or member of cross-functional teams facilitating communication, decision making, and ensuring alignment with internal and external partners. + Experienced leader or project manager of cross-functional teams- facilitating communication, decision making, and ensuring alignment with internal and external partners + Develop or complete project tasks, deliverables, dependencies, and resource requirements. + Track and communicate project status, plans, issues, timelines, action items, and budgets. + Study product requirements, design testing and manufacturing systems to meet requirements. + Perform statistical analysis to analyze trends, and work with team(s) to conduct root cause analysis and to recommend and implement corrective actions for processes. + Investigate, design, & implement control systems & methods to ensure product quality and/or equivalency. + Develop/implement strategies & sound recommendations based on both quantitative and qualitative inputs with intuitive understanding of quality, manufacturing, and financial drivers. + Writing & completing validation plans/reports. + Support R&D new sourcing initiatives (New Product Introduction) as required. **Keys to Success:** **Education** + Bachelor's degree in a technical field (Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, or equivalent) highly preferred. + Technical graduate degree preferred. + High school diploma or equivalent required. **Experience** + 6 years of relevant experience in manufacturing sciences, technical sourcing, or other technical role required, ideally in the biotech industry with a BS degree, or 3 years of experience accepted with a master's level degree, or higher. + 15 years of experience accepted in lieu of degree. + Experience working in a manufacturing environment (preferred). + Continuous improvement experience (lean, PPI, Six Sigma, 5S) a plus. + Project Management and/or PMP certification a plus. **Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:** + Knowledge/Experience in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering. (strongly desired; not required). + Capable of leading or supporting to cross-functional project teams. + Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal) – ability to communicate across all levels internally and externally + Excellent problem-solving skills involving science and engineering. + Highly organized with the ability to multi-task; capable of accomplishing work remotely. + Flexibility and understanding of business impact to address immediate priorities and still manage deadlines with longer-term projects and initiatives. Also the ability to work a flexible schedule remotely, or inside a laboratory, or manufacturing environment; capable of managing schedule based on needs.. + Thrives in a multifaceted work environment; has ‘can-do’ attitude. + Attention to detail + Knowledge of manufacturing processes, documentation, testing, and Quality Systems, ISO regulations and/or cGMP requirements for materials and finished goods manufactured for and/or by Thermo Fisher. + Ability to travel domestically/internationally approximately <20% of the time. **Benefits** We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, 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. Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.