When you join us at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll be part of a smart, driven team that shares your passion for exploration and discovery. With revenues of $22 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.

Location/Division Specific Information:
This position is based at our Grand Island, NY site. This will be a Sunday – Thursday second shift, hours are 2pm-10:30pm.

What will you do?
• Support the establishment and maintenance of storage control performance metrics.
• Provide strong leadership direction working within a diverse workforce / management support (coaching, performance management development (PMD’s), training, issue resolution, etc.) to associates.
• Supervise the activities of all personnel on assigned shift; execute operations to ensure daily safety and quality shipment objectives are achieved
• Take ownership of safety initiatives including incident investigations and reporting within the required timeframe. Participate in safety walkthroughs and continuous improvement activities.
• Support inventory accuracy activities to achieve annual targets for the Grand Island Site.
• Support storage inventory management processes (work order closures, bin checks, proper onsite and offsite storage by temperature, maintain quality samples, etc.).
• Support daily team effort of manufacturing support (re-palletize, wrap and band pallets, use various PIV’s to get pallets to appropriate storage conditions).
• Drive accountability for team involvement including, but not limited to procedure trainings, Gemba Walks, JDI’s and daily 5S duties.
• Provide role-model leadership in driving change to achieve continuous improvement through Lean best practices in Warehousing, Material Flow and Logistics.
• Serve as a point of escalation for Customer, Supplier and/or Manufacturing supply issues.
• Support and contribute to continuous improvement activities for service level performance.
• Help management review and update Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) ensuring consistent and reliable processes and procedures comply with all regulations and current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP).
• Maintain work areas within the spirit and guidelines of 5S in accordance with Lean manufacturing and company guidelines.

How will you get here?

Education:
High School diploma or equivalent required. Associate degree preferred.
Experience:
• 2-3 years of experience within a distribution/operations environment
• Minimum of one year of leadership experience in a team lead or team leader position
• Demonstrated ability to motivate teams and establish goals, metrics, data and plans to achieve organizational objectives.
• Experience coaching, interviewing, and proven track record of issue resolution.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with key internal and external customers / suppliers; including success functioning as a change agent / team leader and team member in a multi-skilled, dynamic and matrix business environment.
• Knowledge of lean material concepts and application in warehousing and logistics.
• MRP experience, Knowledge E1 a plus.
• MS-Office Capabilities (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
• Experience and certified training with a wide array of Powered Industrial Trucks, preferred.

Working conditions:
Works in a warehouse environment and may operate under various temperatures including room temperature (15-30 degrees C), cold-room (2-8 degrees C), and/or Freezer-room (minus 5-minus20 degrees C). Constant motions of walking, bending and lifting to 40 lbs. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to high. May intermittently sit at a desk for a long period of time to answer the telephone and write or use a keyboard to communicate through written means. Must be flexible to work varying schedules and hours as needed. Occasional local travel may be required. The physical demands described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.