Lead Material Handler

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.

How Will You Make an Impact?

A Day in the Life :

• Coordinate activities to achieve self-directed work force. Assists with and performs training (department training, ISO training, Ethics Training, Safety Training) to establish and sustain self-directed work force. Coaching for improvement.
• Plan and allocate labor, including weekend overtime, with the ability to rapidly reallocate labor as business needs dictate.
• Balance labor resources across distribution operations as necessary to assure the overall success of the Department.
• Provide leadership support with employee and work related issues.
• Support change to achieve continuous improvement through Lean best practices in Warehousing, Material Flow and Logistics.
• Lead shift to shift meeting, update the Gemba board and maintain attendance records in eTime.
• Support inventory accuracy activities to achieve annual targets.
• Serve as a point of escalation for Transportation, Customer, Supplier and / or Mfg supply issues.
• 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 and support annual Total Recordable Incidents (TRIR) and Lost Time Recordable Incidents.
• Interface with support departments and Supervision.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Education / Experience :

HS degree or GED required with 3 to 5 years of experience working in a fast paced warehouse department.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities :

What We Offer

Compensation

Excellent Benefits

Compensation and Benefits

The hourly pay range estimated for this position based in New York is $–$

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and / or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our colleagues and their families can count on, which includes :

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) retirement savings plan

Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount