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.
12 Hour Day Shift – 6am – 6:30pm
Schedule rotating weeks:
1st week: Thursday to Saturday = 36 hours
2nd week: Wednesday to Saturday = 48 hours
What will you do?
- Support the establishment and maintenance of performance metrics
- Achieve annual goals for Total Recordable Incidents and Lost Time Recordable Incidents
- Provide leadership / management support (coaching, performance management development [PMD], training, issue resolution, etc.) to associates
- Take ownership of safety initiatives including incident investigations and reporting within the required timeframe. Participate in safety walkthroughs and continuous improvement activities
- Execute operations to ensure daily safety and shipment objectives are achieved
- Support inventory accuracy initiatives to achieve annual targets for Grand Island Raw Materials
- Take ownership of quality/process issues (PR) and corrective actions
- Provide role-model leadership in driving change to achieve continuous improvement through Lean best practices in Warehousing, Material Flow, and Logistics
- Through Leader-Standard Work monitor performance and effectiveness of operations
- Serve as a point of escalation for MFG, Supplier, and/or supply issues
- Serve as a point of escalation for the Warehouse during your shift
- Balance labor resources necessary to assure the overall success of the Department
- Contribute to labor resource forecasting under the direction of the LSG Distribution Manager
- Support and contribute to continuous improvement activities for service level performance
- Support inventory management processes (cycle-counting, MDR processing, warehouse slotting optimization, pick-path optimization, etc.)
- Other duties as prescribed by Distribution Manager/Supervisor
How will you get here?
Education:
- High School Diploma or equivalent required. Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
Experience:
- 2+ years of leadership experience in a frontline Supervision or Management capacity within a distribution/operations or retail environment
- Training or certification on operation of Powered Industrial Trucks (PIT) required
- Detailed knowledge of inventory management
- Experience coaching, interviewing, and proven track record of issue resolution/compromise
- Demonstrated ability to motivate teams and establish goals, metrics, data and plans to achieve organizational objectives
- Proven 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
- MS-Office Capabilities (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
- Certified training for process improvement is a plus