Job Description
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.
Position Summary: How Will You Make an Impact? As our Packaging and Labeling Associate on our Frederick team, you will timely and accurately assemble and/or label pharmaceutical clinical trial treatments and supplies following all associated manufacturing regulatory standards and procedures.
Work Schedule:
- 8AM to 5PM core hours, additional hours as required.
A Day in the Life:
- Daily manual packaging and labeling pharmaceutical treatments.
- Accept/reject product to make sure they meet our acceptability and quality standards.
- Accurately count and prepare product to ensure accurate inventory before and after the completion of each job order.
- Timely complete training on operating requirements and procedures.
Education/ Experience:
- Requires a High School diploma or equivalent;
- Experience reviewing processes to improve effectiveness through data collection, measuring, analysis, improvement and control.
- Minimum of 1 year of work experience in a manufacturing, packaging, production, or related industry
- Experience working in the pharmaceutical or food and beverage industry
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
General Responsibilities:
- Daily manual packaging and labeling pharmaceutical treatments in -80 and LN2 temperatures (minimizing time out of environment).
- Accept/reject product to make sure they meet our acceptability and quality standards.
- Accurately count and prepare product to ensure accurate inventory before and after the completion of each job order.
- Timely complete training on operating requirements and procedures.
- Follow ALCOA Principles always
- Accurately complete batch records ensuring GDP compliance.
- Respond to emails and inquiries related to commercial packaging and labeling.
- Join calls with project managers to troubleshoot issues.
- Interact effectively with multiple functional areas including management, client services, supply chain, shipping, engineering, validations and IT.
Basic Minimum Qualifications: The qualifications listed below are representative of knowledge, skill and/or ability. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to complete each essential duty.
- Communicate effectively verbally and in written form.
- Requires ability to prepare reports using Excel; knowledge of Windows, Word and Power Point.
- Requires expert ability to work with methods to handle, process, and store specimens.
- Requires knowledge of Universal Precautions, general laboratory and quality assurance/control.
- Demonstrates good professional judgment when working with clients.
- Ability to role model behavior consistent with company values.
- Ability to multi-task in multi-disciplines on a day to day basis including Operations, Project, QA, and Facilities Management skills.
- Have a familiarity with various deviation and complaint management system, metrology systems, validation equipment, data management, temperature monitoring systems.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
- Ability to comprehend company and corporate goals, objectives, policies and procedures and develop the necessary measures to achieve them.
- Have the ability to define problems collects data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Work Conditions/Physical Requirements:
- Must have ability to work in a cold environment with exposure to dry ice, liquid nitrogen cryogenics, hazardous and infectious agents and marked changes in temperature.
- May push/pull 600 lb liquid nitrogen dewars, and work from a platform ladder.
- Must use personal protective equipment and adhere to safety protocols.
- Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 lbs, and push up to 70 lbs.
- Must be able to process and handle materials frozen on dry ice (-78°C) or liquid nitrogen (-195°C) for up to 6 hours per day.
- Must have dexterity and attention to detail to manually label vials (RFT) in a cold environment that meet quality standards as laid out in Batch Records.
- Must be able to use a computer up to 6 hours per day.
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
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 ](https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/discover-our-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.
