Supervisor, Sample Management - 3rd Shift
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Summary
This is a fully onsite role based at our Global Central Laboratory in Covington, KY. Relocation assistance is not provided.
Job description
What You'll Do
- Create work schedules and assignments, ensure policies and procedures are accurate, train staff and assess competence, participate in staff hiring, corrective action, evaluation, and career progression.
- Responsible for sample accessioning, routing, storage, shipment, de-identification, relabeling, discard, destruction, and aliquoting.
- Review and recommend process improvement and efficiency gains.
- Recommend IT enhancements. Author, review, and implement procedural documents. Define and monitor performance metrics for quality and productivity. Serve as a back-up for management, when needed.
- Ensure that contracted maintenance and qualification of environmentally controlled units (ECU) or equipment used to prepare or store specimens is performed. Monitor ECU trending reports to prevent equipment failure, ensure proper call response process and teams are in place to respond to ECU failures after-hours.
- Investigate and resolve problems with samples or shipments and in Process Deviation Reports/CAPA. Participate in audits and general capabilities department tours. Respond to environmental unit alarms and participate in on call responsibilities.
Education & Experience Requirements
- Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 0 to 5 years).
- High / Secondary school diploma or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
- 1+ year of leadership responsibility
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Good organizational skills with the ability to adapt and adjust to changing priorities and to manage multiple assignments with challenging/conflicting deadlines
- Strong written and oral communication skills as well as presentation skills
- Competent with computers and enterprise applications
- Critical thinking skills to support quality decision making
- Demonstrated compliance with procedures and policies
- Demonstrated leadership abilities
- Ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
Requirements
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
- Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening
- High / Secondary school diploma or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
- 1+ year of leadership responsibility
- Previous experience comparable to 0 to 5 years
- Good organizational skills with ability to adapt to changing priorities
- Strong written and oral communication and presentation skills
- Competent with computers and enterprise applications
- Critical thinking skills to support quality decision making
- Demonstrated compliance with procedures and policies
- Demonstrated leadership abilities
- Ability to work in a collaborative team environment
Company overview
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. The company's mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. With over 100,000 employees globally, Thermo Fisher provides an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience, and pharmaceutical services through its industry-leading brands including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD. The company serves customers across healthcare, life sciences, applied markets, and pharmaceutical sectors, offering solutions that accelerate research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, and increase laboratory productivity. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, Thermo Fisher operates globally, delivering critical scientific products, services, and workflow solutions that support researchers, organizations, and companies in addressing some of the world's most pressing issues.