Thermo Fisher Scientific · Indianapolis
Manufacturing & Operationsposted 6d ago
Work Schedule
Environmental Conditions
Job Description
2nd Shift: 2:45 pm - 1:30 am (10 hours) Monday - Thursday. Required OT on Fridays. 10%
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.
Location/Division Specific Information:
1223 W Morris Street, Indianapolis, IN
How Will You Make an Impact?:
Serves as a fully proficient senior packaging technician who independently performs a broad range of packaging and labeling activities. Applies strong technical, cGMP, and documentation knowledge; uses judgment to resolve routine operational issues within established procedures; and serves as a technical resource and mentor to less-experienced technicians. This role does not have primary accountability for directing or owning a production room.
Core Responsibilities
Independently perform a broad range of manual and automated assembly, filling, packaging, labeling, and inspection activities across qualified work types.
Independently interpret routine batch records, work instructions, drawings, and assembly instructions and identify discrepancies requiring correction or escalation.
Perform and support component accountability, reconciliation, in-process inspections, and verification activities within qualification scope.
Operate multiple qualified packaging processes and equipment; perform routine troubleshooting and determine when escalation to Room Leadership, Quality, Engineering, or supervision is required.
Recognize quality or documentation risks and take appropriate action within established SOPs to prevent or correct routine errors.
Serve as a technical resource for Packaging/Labeling Technician II colleagues and provide on-the-job coaching, mentoring, and task-specific training when qualified to do so.
Support Room Leaders with complex job preparation, troubleshooting, training, and continuity of operations without assuming primary room ownership.
Participate in PPI/continuous-improvement activities and contribute practical ideas that improve safety, quality, efficiency, and right-first-time execution.
Model cGMP, safety, documentation, teamwork, and Thermo Fisher values in day-to-day work.
Education:
High school diploma or GED required.
Experience
Required: Minimum of 2 years of work experience in a manufacturing, operations, production, lab setting or related field
Experience in a cGMP environment
Experience working in a clean room environment
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
Substantial understanding of packaging/labeling methods, cGMP requirements, SOPs, batch documentation, and component accountability.
Demonstrated proficiency across multiple packaging processes, equipment types, or work types relevant to the area.
Ability to work independently and use judgment to resolve routine operational issues within established procedures.
Ability to identify defects, documentation concerns, and process discrepancies and determine appropriate correction or escalation.
Demonstrated ability to coach, train, or mentor less-experienced employees while maintaining a collaborative approach.
Strong written and verbal communication, computer, mathematical, troubleshooting, and teamwork skills.
Physical Requirements / Work Environment
Ability to work in cleanrooms, cold rooms, and controlled environments ranging from -2 C to 8 C, as required.
Ability to stand and walk for extended periods and perform repetitive hand and finger movements required for packaging operations.
Ability to lift and/or carry up to 50 pounds as required by the work assignment.
Ability to bend, squat, reach, push, pull, grasp, and perform fine manipulation as required.
Ability to wear required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), which may include filtering face masks, N95 masks, half-face masks, protective eyewear, and other site-required PPE.
Must meet applicable visual acuity and color-vision requirements for inspection of pharmaceutical products, components, and labels in a cGMP environment.
Flexibility to work assigned shifts, overtime, weekends, and holidays based on business needs.
What We Offer:
Compensation
Competitive Pay
Performance Related Bonus where eligible
Annual merit performance-based increase
Excellent Benefits
Medical benefits
Paid Time Off/Annual Leave
Employee Referral Bonus
Career Advancement Opportunities