Manager - Engineering Data management

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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.

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Would you join a team where knowledge and leadership are appreciated? Join us and develop your skills!

The position:
Manager of Engineering Data management is the member of Global EDM team which is responsible for analysis, execution and implementation of Engineering Change requests within Operation Strategy deployment team supporting the Operations department in the Eindhoven facility.

In this role you will develop team members and lead projects, actively search for internal process continuous improvement opportunities, be aligned with Global team and secure its alignment within Eindhoven Operation Team.

The position is suitable for everyone who is passionate, proactive, and studious. So don't worry and come and show us what you can do. We will guide you through the rest.

What will you do:

• Lead team within the Engineering Data Management group, which may include a team of engineers, designers and drafters. Focus on professional development by goal setting and providing challenges for further growth, focusing on career planning (successors, critical skills management, leadership skills development)
• Ensures and encourages close collaboration with the other Thermo Fisher sites for efficient cross-site alignment
• Secure alignment in company goals, and focus on open and straightforward communication loop
• Manage departmental budget and resources (headcount and its flexibility, space)
• Stays close to Operation to understand key processes, and be ready to step up and support
• Ensures proper staffing of team to provide adequate levels of technical expertise for documentation screening and archiving, conducting engineering changes, and driving design change requests.
• Supports local and global Operations team in its strategy and deliverables
• Lead improvement projects towards operational excellence and quality, optimizing EDM related processes and linkage to other departments.
• Supports and coordinates approval for outsourcing (part of the) Engineering Data Management services.
• Creates and completes Eindhoven EDM department budget in line with ThermoFisher directions.
• May actively participate in the operational activities of your selected team (e.g. CL/CO role)
• Develops and cultivates close relationships with OCM, R&D, PLM, GTS, Logistics, Procurement, Sustaining Products, Manufacturing, Quality, and Application managers to adequately staff projects and resolve conflicts.
• Initiate and drives Global multi-functional improvement, Innovations and other Operations projects from inception to completion.
• Ensure that ECO process WIP, cycle time and other targets are being met for their respective product line. Monitor, control and deploy performance metrics accordingly.
• Ensures that activities are carried out according to the principle of “Customer focus in all that we do”
• Other duties as assigned

The successful candidate should possess the following:

• Requires management experience (people and/or projects) in a manufacturing, technical support or service management role in the industry environment
• Ability to lead and develop technical teams
• Excellent interpersonal skills and proficient English and Dutch language
• Good communication skills and desire for further development
• Must have the ability to acquire a valid passport and travel regionally and internationally as required (up to 25% of working time).