Assistant Supervisor, Manufacturing

About the role

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.

As a Team Leader in Manufacturing Operations, you will guide and develop a high-performing team while ensuring excellence in safety, quality, and production efficiency. You will have approximately 30 direct reports and coordinate department activities across shifts to meet production schedules and equipment efficiency requirements while maintaining strict adherence to cGMP standards. This role combines people leadership with strategic operational oversight to deliver important products that help our customers make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Working closely with Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, and other support functions, you will lead continuous improvement initiatives, optimize workflows, and cultivate a culture of safety and quality excellence. You will manage daily production activities, conduct performance reviews, provide coaching and training, and ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements while maintaining optimal cost-benefit ratios.

If you are a manufacturing leader who enjoys developing people, improving processes, and working in a highly regulated environment where safety and quality are essential, this opportunity offers the chance to make a meaningful impact while supporting Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Mission of enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a manufacturing team of approximately 30 direct reports.
• Coordinate department activities across shifts to meet production schedules and equipment efficiency requirements.
• Ensure strict adherence to cGMP standards, quality systems, SOPs, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner closely with Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, and other support functions.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives and optimize production workflows.
• Promote a strong culture of safety, quality, accountability, and operational excellence.
• Manage daily production activities and ensure production goals are achieved efficiently.
• Conduct performance reviews and provide ongoing coaching and training to team members.
• Analyze production data and metrics to identify opportunities for process improvement.
• Support production planning, scheduling, and workflow optimization.
• Lead investigations, CAPAs, and change control processes.
• Implement and sustain standard work and 5S practices.
• Maintain an optimal cost-benefit ratio while meeting production and quality expectations.
• Collaborate effectively across functions to resolve issues and build consensus.

Requirements

Advanced degree with 3+ years of manufacturing operations experience, or Bachelor’s degree with 2+