Lead Packaging/Labeling Technician - 1st Shift

Job Description

Shift: 1st Shift
Shift Hours: 6:30am-3:15pm Monday -Friday
Location: Indianapolis, IN - 1223 West Morris Street

Discover Impactful Work
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Every day, our colleagues bring our Mission to life—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. By supporting pharmaceutical packaging and labeling operations, you will play a direct role in delivering life-saving therapies to patients around the world while helping take science a step beyond.

A Day in the Life
As a Packaging Labeling Room Leader, you will provide hands-on leadership within pharmaceutical packaging operations while ensuring compliance with current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP). You will coordinate daily room activities, support and guide team members, and drive continuous improvement initiatives to ensure the safe, accurate, and efficient delivery of high-quality products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate daily packaging and labeling room operations to meet production schedules and quality requirements
• Ensure strict compliance with cGMPs, SOPs, safety procedures, and quality systems
• Provide leadership, training, mentoring, and technical guidance to packaging technicians
• Operate and support automated packaging and labeling equipment
• Perform accurate documentation, line clearances, reconciliations, and batch record reviews
• Identify, investigate, and help resolve deviations and process issues
• Support continuous improvement, efficiency initiatives, and best practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Quality, Engineering, and Supply Chain
• Maintain a safe work environment and ensure proper use of PPE and cleanroom protocols

REQUIREMENTS

Education

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent required

Experience

• Minimum of 4 years of manufacturing experience, preferably in pharmaceutical or other regulated industries
• Prior leadership or lead technician experience strongly preferred
• Experience working with automated packaging and labeling equipment preferred

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Knowledge

• Strong understanding of cGMP regulations, SOPs, and quality systems

Skills

• Excellent attention to detail and documentation accuracy
• Proficiency with computer systems and manufacturing software (SAP or similar)
• Strong mathematical skills for calculations, measurements, and reconciliations
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational, time management, and multitasking skills

Abilities

• Ability to train, mentor, and guide team members
• Demonstrated problem-solving and decision-making capabilities
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement

Physical Requirements / Work Environment

• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs on a regular basis
• Ability to work in cleanrooms, cold rooms, and controlled environments ranging from -20°C to 8°C
• Vision requirements include 20/40 corrected vision and color discrimination
• Ability to wear required PPE including respirators, safety glasses, and cleanroom garments
• Flexibility to work overtime and various shifts as required

What We Offer

Compensation

• Competitive Hourly Pay Rate!
• Additional shift differential for 2nd shift and 3rd shift positions
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Annual merit performance-based increase

Excellent Benefits

• Medical, Dental, & Vision benefits-effective Day 1
• Paid Time Off & Designated Paid Holidays
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Career Advancement Opportunities

Welcome

Thank you for your interest as you consider starting a new career journey with us. As the world leader in serving science, our colleagues develop critical solutions through innovation—and build rewarding careers. Discover their extraordinary stories and connection to our Mission to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Their work is a story of purpose. What story will you tell?

About Us

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.

Accessibility/Disability Access

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

EEO

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, veteran status, age or disability status.