Manager, Technical Sourcing Engineering- Plastics

Company: Thermo Fisher Scientific
Location: Carlsbad
Posted on: May 15, 2022

Job Description:

When you join us at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll be part of a hard-working team that shares your passion for exploration and discovery. With revenues of over $30 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resource to build and make meaningful contributions to the world.How will you make an impact?The Manager, Technical Sourcing leads a team of technical experts that are responsible for our plastics supply base. They will lead assist projects with our 3rd party supply base, product scale-up, resolve quality issues, ensure documentation is correct and cost savings initiatives.Locations: Carlsbad, CA; Logan, UT; Frederick, MDWhat will you do?As part of the technical sourcing engineering management team, you'll work closely with R&D, quality, procurement, and commodity managers to align the global sourcing strategy and supply base to drive new product introduction, manufacturing scale-up, and resolve supplier quality issues. Leads in the procurement and validation of new capital equipment placed at 3rd party contract manufacturers. Primarily focused on injection molded plastic parts.We seek a highly motivated individual to fill our Engineering Manager position. This person will be responsible for ensuring the team meets its goals and delivers projects on schedule.How will you get here?Education: Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Plastics, Industrial Technology, or Materials Science desired.Experience: 4-8+ years of hands-on management of impactful teams, product design, new product development, tooling, and manufacturing experience.Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Lead and collaborate with business R&D project managers to coordinate the development, design, coordination, implementation, analysis, reporting, and maintenance of R&D project plans, including business case development, scoping, resourcing, and lessons learned.
• Injection molded plastic part design, mold processing, tooling design and procurement of molds
• Proficiency in SolidWorks, Pro/e, or equivalent
  • Knowledge of SAP and or Agile
  • Value engineering and process development
  • Ability to work within a highly matrixed organization (Internal)
  • Hard-working, results oriented, and motivated to work effectively without direct supervision
  • Advanced technical writing skills to produce reports and documents
  • Working knowledge of molecular biology, chemistry, and/or biology preferred.
  • Travel - Up to 10% locally and regionallyApply today! http://jobs.thermofisher.com 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.

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