Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

About Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With revenues of $12 billion, we have approximately 39,000 employees and serve customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as in environmental and process control industries. coordinating laboratory operations Our products and services help our customers solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics and increase laboratory productivity. Visit www.thermofisher.com.

Job Title:                                Team Leader, Operations

Reports To:                             Packaging or Despatch or Inventory or Cold Chain Manager, Operations

Group/Division:                     Thermo Fisher Scientific/BioServices Division

Job Track:                               Management

Position Location:                  Horsham, West Sussex

Number of Direct Reports:    <20

Shift Pattern:       2pm to 10.15pm Monday-Friday

Position Summary:

Supervise and develop teams to operate in any of the following ambient and cold chain operational fields as delineated in the Manager's Role;

Packaging

Inventory

Despatch

Key Responsibilities: 

• Activities to be carried out in accordance with statutory, regulatory and company policies and procedures
• Maintain good housekeeping and promote a safe working environment
• Highlight and address potential Health and Safety and Quality risks, near misses and accidents to Line Management
• Coordinate Health and Safety and Quality incident investigations and actions

• Maintain compliance through training and competency programme

• Focus on internal customers (Quality, Engineering, Business Planning, HR, IT, Facilities) and external customers (Clients, Regulatory Bodies, Contractors, Suppliers) priorities
• Support department induction programme
• Manage a team focused on job and schedule accomplishment
• Manage department coaching, development and training
• Demonstrate Role Model Leadership competencies
• Allocation and optimization of resource
• Understanding of capacity and process demand and alignment against schedule
• Maintain and improve process efficiencies to achieve business objectives
• Understand, support and coach team in utilising PPI/Lean tools for process improvement
• Initiate and manage small teams to work on initiatives
• Develop, maintain, trend and report Key Performance Indicators
• Authority to sign off time sheets, raise Purchase Orders and administration of absence management

• Undertake any other duties on an ad-hoc basis as required by your Line Manager

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• 5 x GCSE or equivalent experience/qualification (including English and Mathematics)

• Worked within a GMP environment
• Worked within an operational environment
• Competent in use of electronic and automated equipment
• Management experience