Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards, Office

Job Description

Location: Grand Island, NY. Relocation assistance is NOT provided. 

*Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

*Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening.

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.

Position Objective

The Manufacturing Sciences and Technology Manager provides technical and people leadership to support the manufacturing, scale-up, transfer, validation, and lifecycle management of cell culture media products. This role serves as a technical expert for media formulation, raw materials, and process robustness, ensuring reliable, compliant, and efficient GMP manufacturing. This role partners cross-functionally with Manufacturing, Quality, Process Development, Engineering, and Regulatory to ensure robust, compliant, and efficient commercial and clinical production.

How will you make an impact?

• Provide MSAT leadership across the full product lifecycle, including raw material strategy and qualification, manufacturing execution, product testing and other technical support.
• Provide technical oversight for process transfers, scale-up and validation.
• Act as primary technical escalation point for manufacturing deviations, process excursions, and atypical events.
• Lead root cause investigations and define robust, data-driven CAPAs in collaboration with Manufacturing and Quality.
• Serve as a technical representative during customer interactions, audits, and regulatory inspections.
• Drive process optimization, yield improvement, and waste reduction initiatives across media manufacturing operations.
• Support implementation of new technologies, automation, and digital tools related to media manufacturing and raw material management.
• Own material sciences strategy for cell culture media, including raw material characterization, variability assessment, and formulation risk management.
• Evaluate the impact of raw material changes, supplier changes, and alternate sourcing on product quality and process performance.
• Partner with Procurement, Supplier Quality, and Quality Assurance to support supplier qualification, material changes, and investigations.
• Support material comparability studies and justification for regulatory filings and customer communication.

Education and Experience

• Minimum Required Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Engineering or related field (higher education is a plus).
• Experience Required: 6+ years of transferable manufacturing experience within a GMP environment.
• 2+ years of people management or team leadership experience.
• Experience in cell culture media formulation, raw materials or material sciences.
• Hands-on experience with product commercialization, process transfer, validation and commercial manufacturing support.
• Strong understanding of GMP requirements, regulatory and quality systems.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to resolve sophisticated technical issues.
• Strong interpersonal skills, risk-based decision making and clear communication skills, both verbal and written.

Work Environment/Physical Requirements

• This position requires working regular business hours and outside business hours (evenings, weekends, and holidays) when needed.
• Ability to apply Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) principles and knowledge of media manufacturing processes, equipment, instrumentation, and procedures.
• Presence on the manufacturing floor with strict adherence to GMP cleanroom guidelines.
• Willingness to travel as needed (up to 15%), domestic and international.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in New York is $95,000.00–$106,000.00.

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

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards