Job Description

Compression Team Lead

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

Cincinnati, OH

Discover Impactful Work:

Thermo Fisher Scientific is currently seeking a Compression Team Lead for Material Handling, Tooling, and Compression readiness supporting day shift in Cincinnati, OH.

The Compression Team Lead coordinates and drives the production schedule and is responsible for the readiness coordination of the department. Administers all company policies with respect to GMPs, validation, quality, safety, health, attendance, and environment. With QA, makes quality decisions regarding batches in each manufacturing area. Develops employees and coordinates training on new equipment. Identifies, Improves, and implements key changes in quality, safety, and productivity to department SOP's and unit operations.

A day in the life of the Compression Team Lead:

• Supervises and leads 10 hourly employees across a 24 x 6 operation.
• Tracks and reports out on departmental metrics and facilitates improvement efforts.
• Coordinates training and develops employees applying banding matrixes and new skill opportunities.
• Improves quality of processes as well as identify safety and efficiency improvements.
• Ownership and organization of WIP flow through the 28 white zone corridors from Granulation to Compression and Compression to CPI.
• Ensures equipment readiness for all assets in Compression (Change Parts, Compression Tooling, Consumables, Tote, etc.).
• Co-owns hopper and laundry readiness for Granulation Teams
• Ability to support Audit, Client, and site tours for the corridors in production areas.
• Lead quality performance, rapids, and investigation for Material Handlers and Tooling.

Keys to Success:

Education

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Associates Degree or 5 years of pharmaceutical manufacturing experience or any combination of both.
• Applicants with the experience/exposure of working in a cleanroom environment are highly sought after.

Experience

• Knowledgeable of SAP, Maximo, and Trackwise.
• Knowledge of compression tooling SOP’s
• Fork truck Experience
• Experienced in manufacturing processes.
• Basic knowledge and experience using manufacturing equipment & mechanical competence.
• Communicate effectively.
• Ability to read work instructions, and procedure manuals/diagrams
• Ability to work well with autonomously.
• Experience in pharmaceutical production and packaging preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Communicate effectively.
• Ability to read work instructions, and procedure manuals/diagrams
• Ability to work well with autonomously.
• Troubleshooting, assembly, and testing skills required.
• Experienced in manufacturing processes.
• Good working knowledge and understanding of GMPs related to dry products' manufacturing.
• Ability to tackle problems and make decisions independently.
• Proactively drives quality improvements to achieve department safety, quality, and efficiency goals.

Physical Requirements / Work Environment

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000 colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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