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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.

Location/Division Specific Information:

The Chemical Analysis Division (CAD) provides a diverse mix of analytical instruments and associated services to a broad range of end user markets including Safety & Security, Environmental, Food Safety, Energy, Mining, Life Science Manufacturing and Recycling, to name a few. Its instruments are deployed in the field and on the line, in challenging environments where customers put a premium on robustness, reliability and ease of use. They allow them to make decisions where they operate and streamline their businesses. CAD is a complex division with a global footprint, broad product portfolio and diverse customer base.

How Will You Make an Impact?:

The Assembly Technician assembles instrument components, sub-components and electro-mechanical assemblies for our world class chemical analyzers. Expected tasks will include soldering, fitting/mounting, alignment, adjusting and repairs of products. To complete this work, we are looking for enthusiastic, dependable, hard-working, standout colleagues that will make a difference for our customers and fellow colleagues every day. The impact you will have could be anything from delivering products that help a scientist discover a cure for cancer to helping a nurse care for a patient effectively because they have the right equipment.

A Day in the Life:

• Assembles and conducts basic functional testing on a variety of electrical and mechanical parts and sub-assemblies using work instructions.
• Participates as an active member of production cell supporting inventory and equipment management.
• Participates in daily team stand-up meetings; communicating daily challenges and/or ideas.
• Adheres and promotes regulatory requirements such as Electrostatic Discharge (ESD), work area cleanliness, maintenance and calibration of equipment and work instruction adherence.
• Contributes to and leads improvement events (such as Kaizen, 5S, Practical Process Improvement).
• Builds working relationships with co-workers, including employees in other departments (engineering, marketing, etc).
• Performs transactions in Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) system.
• Maintain a safe working environment, following established 5S organizational procedures.
• Reworks and reassembles units based on verbal or written instructions for failure analysis or development activities. Assignments may be complex and non-repetitive. Some personal judgment may be needed.

Education:

High school diploma or equivalent required.

Experience:

• Required: Minimum of 1 year of work experience in a manufacturing, operations, production, lab setting or related field.
• Preferred: Soldering experience.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Ability to work independently and with a team, acting as a self starter, leading team activities to quickly resolve issues that arise.
• Understands role and expectations, following SOP and company policies, accepting coaching as needed. Does the right thing when no one's watching.
• Comfortability using computers to input and process information, including mathematical calculations, at a basic level.
• Ability to perform basic operations in Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Familiarity with Lean Manufacturing concepts a plus

Physical Requirements / Work Environment

• Electronics manufacturing setting with personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements including but not limited to: safety glasses protection and closed toed footwear.
• ISO9000 requirements including ESD and clean work area environment.
• Prolonged periods of sitting required.
• Ability to lift up to 25 lbs unaided.

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
• 401K
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Career Advancement Opportunities

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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