Job Title: Senior Manager, Manufacturing Engineering
Requisition ID:130861
Location: US - Pleasanton, CA
 
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
Pleasanton, CA supporting multiple divisions of the Life Sciences Division.
 
How will you make an impact?
 
Reporting to the site Operations Leader, this position will have responsibility for the overall management of engineering, bioautomation, and maintenance/service activities at the Pleasanton facility. This role will support new product introductions, sustaining activities, and continuous improvement projects. The Sr. Manager, Manufacturing Engineering will be a key member of the Pleasanton site leadership team and will be a stakeholder in decision-making on site projects and goals.
 
What will you do?

• This role will be responsible for developing operating plans and budgets that include headcount, capital planning, and expense for manufacturing support activities.
• This position is responsible for managing a workforce consisting of professional salaried employees, supervisors, and hourly staff. Employee development and welfare are also a key component to the management function.
• This position will have responsibility to represent manufacturing engineering on project teams and continuous improvement efforts both internally to the site as well as externally to our division and business partners.
• The role will be responsible for the development of metrics as well as plans and operating mechanisms that ensure that our targets are achieved on a day-to-day basis.
• This role is an active participant in the PPI business system / continuous improvement activities and will be responsible for managing the engineering and maintenance support for PPI Kaizen and Productivity projects.
• Typical activities supported at the facility range from well-established legacy product lines, to new technologies and processes that require flexibility and innovative problem solving.
• The facility is ISO 13485 and contains some FDA regulated manufacturing; this position shall be responsible for maintaining compliance through the support of commissioning and validation activities as well as ongoing sustaining activity. This role will be expected to meet with regulatory agencies and customers during inspections and audits.
• This role must also work closely with business partners and Manufacturing Sciences to manage deliverables for New Product Introductions and externally driven projects. Project support through core teams, and tasks such as risk assessments, equipment specification & design, drawing development, and validation protocol generation are within the management scope of this role.
• May be required to perform other related duties as required and/or assigned.

• Requires a bachelor’s degree or higher in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Chemical Engineering or related discipline.
• Eight years of relevant experience in successfully performing process engineering activities preferred
• Experience in supervising and leading engineering teams.
• Manufacturing experience, with strong understanding of ISO and cGMP quality requirements.
• Experience with custom and benchtop equipment requirements, qualification, and upgrades.
• Demonstrated ability to develop individuals and teams for SME and leaders.
• Experience with facility/utility build outs and qualification.

• Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities.
• Strong Lean/Six Sigma and statistical analysis skill set.
• Excellent project management and interpersonal skills are required, providing the ability to inspire, motivate, and collaborate with others.
• Project management certification, i.e., PMP, a plus.