Project Manager III

Job Description

About Company:Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $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 sophisticated analytical challenges, growing efficiency in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our distributed team delivers an outstanding 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 PPDRole & Responsibilities:

• As Project Leader III you will lead, design and qualify products for Laboratory products which are globally manufactured and help to reduce the cost, drive design standardization across sites.
• As part of a multi-functional team, major responsibility will include leading high sophisticated projects in the capacity of a Program manager.
• Strong design knowledge and exposure towards global qualification standards
• Ensures that assigned projects are delivered timely, to specification, and at or below targeted cost through solid engineering plans, including quality, cost, schedule, and risk assessment. Reports on project progress.
• Approaches problems in a rational manner and with outstanding tools to ensure comprehensive understanding and effective resolution.
• Helps team to grow technical depth and build proficiency across product lines.
• Promotes an environment of learning, coordinates technical training, addresses and fills technical gaps, and helps to buildup technical pipeline.
• Efficiently collaborates with sourcing, operations, quality, service and global R&D team, as well as external suppliers, vendors and customers.
• Perform cost benefit analysis and finalize annualized savings for given project.
• Perform VAVE study and identify cost out opportunities which are quality neutral.
• Drive product cost analysis, benchmarking, Value analysis & value engineering independently.
• Deliver $1M cost savings in a calendar year.

Skills and Proficiencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering with 10+ years overall experience in product cost out and VAVE project execution.
• 5+ years proven experience in design & qualifying supplier.
• VAVE certified & PMP certified (Good to have)
• Minimum 5 end-to-end high sophisticated sustenance or cost out project execution experience in the role of project leader.
• Proficient with phase gate / technical review process
• Awareness on regulatory requirements, certification, and engineering standards.
• Problem solving, critical thinking, attention to detail, responsibility and out of box thinking.