Director, Manufacturing Sciences

Director, Manufacturing Sciences (Technical Operations)

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.

This position is part of the Clinical Diagnostics Division (CDD) which provides innovative diagnostic solutions for select IVD market segments and has been a trusted supplier in the IVD industry for over 40 years. CDD delivers products for drugs of abuse testing, therapeutic drug monitoring, quality control, sepsis diagnosis, prenatal screening, advanced laboratory instrumentation and high-throughput laboratory automation equipment for use in a variety of laboratory settings.

The Director, Manufacturing Sciences (Technical Operations) is a key leadership role at the Middletown, VA site with 500+ colleagues producing over 6 billion tests annually through custom, contract and OEM businesses for Hematology, Hemostasis, Clinical Chemistry, Immunoassay and Molecular.

How you will make an impact :

• Lead, develop and inspire the team to meet site and organizational goals
• Provide leadership to the technical team responsible for transfer of new products, ensuring facility fit and appropriate processes and procedures are established through commercialization / life cycle support.
• Identify and lead initiatives that optimize business and manufacturing processes.
• Serve as the subject matter expert in technical meetings supporting customer interactions and resolving product issues.
• Directly support site manufacturing operations by driving effective alignment and partnership for manufacturing process optimization and day-to-day troubleshooting support for manufacturing operations.
• Facilitate resolution of technical issues within the manufacturing operations in collaboration with Quality including support of root cause and CAPA identification, and lot release, conduct and write NCR investigations and drive CAPA implementation.
• Own the site Design Master Files for all products.
• Provide technical expertise for technical investigation and technical reports, and process related issues during production.
• Coordinate and plan team's project delivery and activities, meeting the financial needs of the company while balancing the needs of customers and end users.
• Develop and implement programs to drive operational excellence towards right first time and on-time delivery.
• Maintains proficient knowledge of FDA requirements and industry best practices for IVDR.

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We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, 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!