Manufacturing Team Leader - Packaging (Swing Shift)

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.

How will you make an impact?

As the Team Leader, Manufacturing Operations you will be responsible for supervising the operations of our packaging team within the Finished Goods Manufacturing department with general responsibility for safety, quality, and compliance. The Team Lead will maintain a skilled manufacturing team of 10-15 employees responsible for filling, labeling, and final packaging to ensure production of high-quality products.

Location/Division Specific Information:

This position is in Eugene, OR.

Shift: Swing Shift Monday - Friday, 2:30pm - 11am

Overtime and weekend work will be required as needed.

What will you do?

• Accomplishes manufacturing staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring time and attendance, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
• Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; encourages cross-training of employees in other areas across the manufacturing floor; developing personal growth opportunities.
• Resolves personnel problems by analyzing data; investigating issues; identifying solutions; and recommending actions.
• Ensure safety is a top priority with active measures in place, assist in inspections, and promote workplace safety. Maintains a safe and clean work environment by coaching team members on the use of equipment, and resources, maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Ensure full adherence to 5S practices.
• Ensure achievement of production goals against stated capacity targets.
• Develop reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points; ability to Process change orders, ECO, DCO, deviations, and non-conformances reports.
• Initiating and fostering a spirit of teamwork within and between departments.
• Completes production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel; accomplishing work results; establishing priorities, daily targets, and responsibilities to the team; supervising progress; revising schedules; resolving problems; reporting results of the processing flow on shift production summaries.
• Effectively use prioritization mechanisms to apply resources to complete the work on-hand and/or raise issues to leadership so that resource needs can be addressed.
• Ensures operation of equipment by calling for repairs; evaluating new equipment and techniques and follow-up status of ME tickets.
• Manage key performance indicators for projects in area of responsibility that lead to change and visibility to the team and leadership.
• Provide feedback, ideas and suggestions for new and/or improved lab techniques, protocols, processes, and special handling of the product and equipment.
• Continuously strive to improve output goals. Demonstrate good time management resulting in efficiency. Support cost improvement initiatives by reducing failures, improving capacity and using supplies wisely. Reduce work in process, queues and cycle times.

How will you get here?

Education

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Minimum of 5 years preferred of manufacturing experience with experience leading teams through projects and/or against established goals.
• Bachelors Degree or equivalent professional leadership experience in a manufacturing environment, preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Leadership in core values of Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement.
• Management, analytical and conflict resolution skills.
• Verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of ERP Systems, Microsoft Windows, Office Suite, Excel, PowerPoint and related systems.
• Experience in lean manufacturing and continuous improvement is highly preferred.
• Strong process/systems competence and knowledge along with process industry experience.
• Physical ability to tolerate loud noises. Ability to bend stand and work on concrete 10 + hours per day.

What we offer?

Competitive Salary:

• Annual performance-based bonus
• Annual merit performance-based increase

Excellent Benefits!

• Review our company’s Total Rewards
• Medical, Dental, & Vision benefits-effective Day 1
• Paid Time Off (120 hours per year) + Designated Paid Holidays
• 401K Company Match up to 6%
• Tuition Reimbursement – eligible after 90 days!
• Employee Referral Bonus

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 100,000 extraordinary minds have a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

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

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.