Production Supervisor (2nd Shift)
About The Position
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. The Contribution You’ll Bring to this Role The person hired as Production Supervisor will lead 2nd shift manufacturing operations. They are responsible for ensuring safety, quality, service, efficiency, and employee engagement. This role supports growing supervisory coverage for 24/7 shifts, including weekends. Here, you will make an impact by: Ensuring a safe working environment through modeling safe behaviors, leading audits/inspections, correcting unsafe behaviors, leading crew meetings, and applying accurate work methods, procedures, and equipment. Providing supervision and support to production and warehouse hourly employees and ensuring accuracy in production reporting and time reporting for payroll. Working and communicating cross-functionally with site support teams (EHS, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, Production Planning) to meet production schedules and implement improvements. Handling shift administrative activities such as training, time/absence reporting, attendance control, vacation planning, overtime, training, etc. Planning daily work schedules, prioritizing, allocating work assignments, and monitoring production processes to meet specific daily production requirements for customer deliveries. Implement process improvements through Practical Process Improvement (PPI), Lean, and other methodologies while maintaining strict adherence to GMP, ISO, and safety standards.
Requirements
- Minimum Education required: HS Diploma/GED. Bachelor's degree or higher education preferred
- One year of experience in a manufacturing setting within private, public, government, or military sectors
- One year of experience in a supervisory or leadership role
- Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).
Nice To Haves
- Expertise equivalent to that which would be acquired in a bachelor’s degree or higher in a science or engineering field (preferred)
- Extensive leadership background in a manufacturing environment
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Software Tools
- Experience in medical, pharmaceutical, or food manufacturing (cGMP, ISO 13485)
- Ability to drive and inspire change and lead cross-functional teams
- Training and/or experience with Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, or other continuous improvement methodologies
- Experience working with hazardous materials
- Experience leading cross-functional teams
Responsibilities
- Ensuring a safe working environment through modeling safe behaviors, leading audits/inspections, correcting unsafe behaviors, leading crew meetings, and applying accurate work methods, procedures, and equipment.
- Providing supervision and support to production and warehouse hourly employees and ensuring accuracy in production reporting and time reporting for payroll.
- Working and communicating cross-functionally with site support teams (EHS, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, Production Planning) to meet production schedules and implement improvements.
- Handling shift administrative activities such as training, time/absence reporting, attendance control, vacation planning, overtime, training, etc.
- Planning daily work schedules, prioritizing, allocating work assignments, and monitoring production processes to meet specific daily production requirements for customer deliveries.
- Implement process improvements through Practical Process Improvement (PPI), Lean, and other methodologies while maintaining strict adherence to GMP, ISO, and safety standards.
Benefits
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
High school or GED
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
