Team Leader - Dartford, United Kingdom - Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Dartford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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When you're part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do challenging work, and join a team that values performance, quality and innovation.

As part of a successful, growing global organization you will be encouraged to perform at your best.

With revenues of more than $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and chances to create significant contributions to the world.

When your part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, you will do challenging work, and join a team that values performance, quality and innovation.

As part of a successful, growing global organization you will be encouraged to perform at your best.

With revenues of more than $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and chances to create significant contributions to the world.

Working in our Microbiology Division (MBD), within the Specialty Diagnostics Group, you'll play an active part in helping us to achieve our mission to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.

The Microbiology Division discovers microbiological solutions for the diagnosis of infectious diseases and the detection of bacterial contamination.

We serve public health, clinical laboratories, food companies, environmental screening, and pharmaceutical laboratories with a portfolio of products that include culture media, antimicrobial susceptibility testing solutions, and market-leading molecular solutions for food safety testing.

The Team Leader will have overall responsibility for the Microbiology team.

They will be passionate about leading a flexible, multi-disciplined team to manufacture products successfully and efficiently in alignment with customer demands whilst driving the right behaviours with regards to safety and quality.

Key Responsibilities:

Be a role model leader and demonstrate behaviors in line with the company 4I values, and operations and leadership competencies.
Engage the team in safety ensuring all risk assessments and COSHH are present and accurate to ensure all processes are being carried out in a safe manner.
To collaborate with Senior Technicians to ensure work is planned in and adequate resource is available.
Drive continuous improvement activities.
Empower employees to take accountability in their role. Delegate responsibility and expect accountability and regular feedback.
Mentor and develop employees using regular 11's and the PMD process to provide an overall context and framework. Encourage employee contribution through goal setting, feedback, and performance development planning.
Monitoring of performance and absence within the team, including involvement when issues need to be highlighted.
Facilitate the daytoday work within the teams and ensure barriers to execution are removed.
Accountability for the team's metrics and presentation of these to management on a regular basis including recovery plans for any misses.
Ensure that team members are trained, and their records are up to date, including having enough cover on the various processes in case of absence/attrition.
Deputize for the Reagents Manager in their absence.
Involved in the hiring and onboarding of new employees.

Minimum Qualifications:

Educated to degree level in a scientific field and / or a sciencebased employment background
Strong understanding of the demands of a manufacturing environment.
Leadership skills to help drive team and department performance.
Proven track record in compliance (Safety and Quality) improvements within your current role.

Preferred Qualifications and Experience:

Previous experience of leading a team
Previous experience of a science based manufacturing environment
Understanding of the requirements for GMP (good manufacturing practice) and a regulated industry

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.

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