Senior Manufacturing Technician - Night Shift - Rotating Weekend

About the job

Work Schedule
Every other weekend nights
Environmental Conditions
Able to lift 40 lbs. without assistance, Loud Noises (Equipment/Machinery), Rapid flashing lights, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.), Will work with hazardous/toxic materials
Job Description

Rotating Weekend - Night Shift
6:00PM-6:30AM Week 1: Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday Week 2: Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday
Pay Range: $27 to $31
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:
Bedford, MA / Purification & Pharma Analytics

How Will You Make an Impact?:
The Senior Manufacturing Technician, POROS Manufacturing is responsible for performing advanced hands-on manufacturing activities in support of the production of POROS chromatography resin. This role executes production activities safely, compliantly, and efficiently while providing technical support to the manufacturing team and assisting with maintenance, material handling, and other operational activities as needed.

The Senior Manufacturing Technician independently performs a broad range of manufacturing tasks, operates and monitors production equipment, completes required production documentation, and troubleshoots routine process and equipment issues. This role serves as an experienced resource on the manufacturing floor, supporting less experienced technicians, sharing technical knowledge, and helping the team maintain safe, reliable, and consistent production operations.

This position routinely manages work of moderate complexity with occasional variations from standard conditions and is expected to exercise sound judgment within established procedures. The Senior Manufacturing Technician works with greater independence than a Manufacturing Technician II and is expected to proactively identify issues, support problem resolution, and contribute to continuous improvement and achievement of daily production objectives.

A Day in the Life:
Perform duties within the corporate EH&S Standards and place proper emphasis on safety and quality.
Operate various process equipment including reactors, pressure filters, pumps, filling, labeling and packaging equipment according to written SOP’s and UOP’s in a large scale, chemical batch manufacturing process.
Performs and trains new employees on various activities in accordance with SOP and UOP’s to carry out unit operations such as the following: equipment changeovers with Lock Out Tag Out and Confined space protocols, Elutriation processes and finished product discharges, R-Bead polymerization processes, Bead Coating processes, and various smaller scale processes.
Maintain batch and equipment records per department’s ISO13485 standards and Good Documentation practices with a high focus on quality.
Work with the team on 5S and continuous improvement activities within the work center including cleaning activities in areas as needed.
May receive training and perform required in process testing to continue manufacturing processes.

Education:
High school diploma or equivalent required.

Experience:
Minimum of 2 years of chemical or biotech manufacturing experience and knowledge of computer applications is required.
Experience in cGMP Environment, use of Delta V, and/or SAP is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
Proficient oral and written communication skills are required to be effective in this role.
Ability to interpret data, perform basic calculations, and troubleshooting skills.
Highly organized and excellent at multi-tasking, proactive, hardworking, and self motivated.

Physical Requirements / Work Environment
Ability to stand for 80% of the shift, move ~40 lbs up one flight of stairs, push 55 gallon drums on wheeled dollies and wear all required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including work uniform, steel toe shoes, hair net, safety glasses, bump cap, and nitrile gloves. PPE may also include face shield, respirator, and smock.

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

• Compensation and Benefits
• The hourly pay range estimated for this position based in Massachusetts is $20.72–$34.54.
• 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