When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals.

Location/Division Specific Information:

This position is focused on service delivery excellence for UnityTM Lab Services. UnityTM Lab Services provides services at over 400 customer sites globally.

This position is located in Foster City, CA.

How will you make an impact?

Provide glass washing and sterilization services while maintaining a constant supply of clean and sterile lab glass of high quality

What will you do?

• Daily pickup of utilized glassware from labs, wash, sterilize, and redistribute to satellite storage areas

• Operation of glassware washers, autoclaves, and depyrogenation ovens

• Maintain good house keeping

• Interact daily with scientific staff

• Reporting metric’s to management

• Provide glass washing and sterilization services maintaining a constant supply of clean and sterile lab glass

• Maintain glassware processing schedules and flexible to fast paced changing priorities

• Perform inspection of glassware for cracks, breaks, and scratches contacting the Supervisor/Manager/Team Lead with all pertinent information for replacement

• Maintain glass wash statistics as decided upon by Thermo Fisher Scientific and customer

• Maintain inventory of glassware in locations throughout the facility

• Maintain required supplies for glassware washing and sterilization operations

• Follow all SOP guidelines as required

• Follow Glasswash and autoclave machine operating procedures including basic operational preventive maintenance

• Maintain safety awareness, by maintaining and authoring Work Instructions, assisting with Job Hazard Assessments, and performing PPE assessments

• Provide technical expertise and training to ULS staff

• Communicates any customer issues or potential problems

• Listens to customer concerns, effectively diffuses dissatisfaction, and quickly identifies course of action with a goal of first call resolution within established turnaround times

• Works effectively with a diverse cross-functional team

• Embraces Practical Process Improvement (PPI) methodologies

• Positively represent Thermo Fisher Scientific at all times throughout customer locations.

• Attend required training sessions.

• Participate in projects and perform other duties as assigned.

How will you get here?

Education

• Must possess a High School Diploma or GED

Experience

• Familiarity with working in a laboratory setting with glassware washers, autoclaves, and depyrogenation ovens.

• Knowledge of good documentation cGMP is preferred but not required.

• Experience in laboratory setting or services preferred

• Experience in GXP environment preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proven excellence in customer service skills

• Detail oriented, problem solver, promotes team environment

• Computer/software skills (i.e. Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

• Ability to establish and foster positive customer relationships

• Strong communication skills and proactive approach in all duties

• Demonstrate expertise in the ability to identify inefficiencies in any process and make recommendations for improvement

• Demonstrated verbal, written and presentation skills

• Ability to instantly adapt to a flexible and changing schedule

• Ability to self-manage and operate independently

• Demonstrate a sense of urgency in completing work assignments.

• Good time management and organizational skills

• Must be able to work overtime as required

Working Conditions

• Works primarily at customer locations, in office environment to include cubicles and/or in and around shipping/receiving docks, stock rooms, storage locations and laboratory environments

• May be required to work independently within customer location

• Extensive walking/standing may be required for 75-85% of the day

• May pass through areas where chemical based allergens may be in use (such as penicillin, tetracycline, etc)

• Must possess motor skills appropriate to the task

• Must be able to lift, push and pull 30-40 pounds consistently; may be required to lift 50 lbs.

• May be able to use material handling equipment such as push carts and pallet jacks

• Depending on area of building, personal protective equipment may be worn to include lab coats, coveralls, hood, facemask, hairnets and/or safety gloves

• Some areas require steel toe shoes, bump hats and/or safety glasses

• Must be able to work hours required to get the job done

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