Technician

Job Title

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: Greenville, NC

How Will You Make an Impact?

Sets-up, operates, and maintains the classified environments and manufacturing equipment for pharmaceutical products. Requires proficiency in; cleaning, preparing equipment and components for operations, operating and troubleshooting mechanical equipment, following approved procedures and proper documentation.

Position is a 12-hour shift from 6pm-6am or 6am-6pm on a 3-2-2 rotation. Overtime will be required.

A Day in the Life:

• Ensures operations are performed in a safe and responsible manner striving to create an injury-free and incident-free workplace.
• Ensures pharmaceutical products in manufacturing are in accordance to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs) and other batch related activities. Verifies and documents production activities in batch records, logbooks, etc.
• Assists in troubleshooting operational and production problems in order to identify appropriate corrective actions.
• Maintains/cleans classified environments/areas.
• Communicates and works to resolve any production, quality or safety issues.
• Complies with all job-related safety, cGMP, and other department procedural requirements.
• Participates in the On the Job (OJT) training program, area safety initiatives, and area lean manufacturing initiatives.
• Perform other related duties as required by the job or directed by the supervisor.
• Trains new employees.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Education: High school diploma or equivalent required. Experience: Required: 1+ year of work experience in a manufacturing, operations, production, lab setting or related field. No experience required with a two- or four-year degree. Preferred: Experience in a cGMP environment.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Excels in a team environment.
• Basic math skills.
• Good verbal/written communication.
• Attention to detail while maintaining a quality product.
• Ability to perform repetitive work duties.
• Ability to follow SOPs.

Physical Requirements / Work Environment Position requires ordinary ambulatory skills and physical coordination sufficient to move about office locations; ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch periodically for prolonged periods of time; manipulation (lift, carry, move) of medium weights of 25-50 pounds; occasionally pushing and pulling 50-100+ pounds; arm, hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp and type for prolonged periods of time; visual acuity to use a keyboard, computer monitor, operate equipment, and read materials for prolonged periods of time; ability to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear for prolonged periods of time. Ability to climb stairs and ladders. Full range of motion in upper and lower extremities.

What We Offer: Compensation Competitive Pay Performance Related Bonus where eligible Annual merit performance-based increase Excellent Benefits Medical benefits Paid Time Off/Annual Leave Employee Referral Bonus Career Advancement Opportunities