Job Description

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.

Division Specific Information

The Chemical Analysis Division (CAD) provides a diverse mix of analytical instruments and associated services to a broad range of end user markets including Safety & Security, Environmental, Food Safety, Energy, Mining, Life Science Manufacturing and Recycling, to name a few. Its instruments are deployed in the field and on the line, in challenging environments where customers put a premium on robustness, reliability and ease of use. They allow them to make decisions where they operate and streamline their businesses. CAD is a sophisticated division with a global footprint, broad product portfolio and diverse customer base.

Discover Impactful Work

The Senior Continuous Improvement Manager will own the implementation of Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Practical Process Improvement (PPI) Business System. This role will focus on enhancing the Tewksbury site operations in partnership with various cross functional departments. The main goal of this role will be to implement PPI standard processes, drive a culture of continuous improvement, and ensure PPI principles are applied effectively to strategic and operational business objectives. Additionally, this role will report directly to the Director of PPI for the division and have a dual reporting to the local site leader in the Tewksbury, MA location.

Job Responsibilities

• Partner with Operations and SG&A leadership (Commercial, Marketing, R&D, Planning, Supply Chain, etc.) to ensure an active pipeline of critical initiatives aligned to business priorities, metrics, and results. Establish a sustainability and governance mechanism.

• Collaborate with Business Leaders to establish 3-year strategic plans via strategy deployment (X-matrix/A3), enable Key Performance Indicator Leadership, and develop PPI capability in the Business through training, qualification, and coaching.

• Serve as subject matter authority and “Go To” person for Lean concepts, training & tools application in support of high-impact initiatives. Coach the coaches.

• Develop talent: provide support to leaders and PPI practitioners to increase autonomy, develop lean expertise and capability within the function, and accelerate the pace of change.

• Support functional leadership with assessing the PPI health across the four categories of People, Process, Leadership, and Technology.

• Serve as a change agent by influencing, communicating, and institutionalizing a culture of simplification, standardization, and continuous improvement.

• Establish mechanisms to supervise effectiveness of building competencies & rewarding learning.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Ability to partner with leadership teams in establishing multi-year plans using project standardized management methods.

• Broad understanding of multi-functional, global processes, and financial business methods.

• Impactful communicator with the ability to positively influence leadership and all levels of the organization.

• Able to drive critical thinking and continuous improvement in non-operational areas, including connecting the cross-functional resources to improve efficiency of the extended value streams.

• Ability to lead/influence across and up into the organization without direct reporting responsibility. Motivate cross-functional teams to drive customer satisfaction through business process improvement.

Experience

• 5+ years of Lean leadership expertise with extensive experience implementing end-to-end Business-level change initiatives.

• Lean practitioner, capable of leading & facilitating kaizen events and coaching the core tools including adoption of these tools to a transactional process environment.

• Strong experience developing, training, and coaching teams.

• Consistent track record of seeking opportunities for improvement and delivering year-over-year results.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Science, Operations, Business, or related field required.

• Lean Guide or Black Belt certification preferred.

Benefits:

We offer driven remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, company pension, and a range of employee benefits! Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us (https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/5-reasons-to-work-at-thermo-fisher-scientific) . As one distributed team of 100,000 colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

EEO/Reasonable Accommodation:

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 70,000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and give to our singular mission—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.