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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.

How will you make an impact?

The Staff Technical Sourcing Engineer (TSE) plays a pivotal role in our Global Value Assurance Organization. You will determine strategies for cost savings, cost avoidance, and revenue generation, while strictly ensuring risk mitigation and supplier quality. Your contributions will enable us to continue delivering world-class solutions that make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.

What will you do?

• Collaborate with R&D, product development, quality, procurement, and strategic sourcing to align the global sourcing strategy.

• Successfully conduct cost reduction and manufacturing scale-up initiatives.

• Resolve supplier quality issues to maintain our detailed production standards.

• Focus primarily on electrical and electro-mechanical components, assemblies and OEM assemblies.

• Manage own projects through entire project lifecycle

• Travel up to 20% globally to support and coordinate supplier activities and projects.

How will you get here?

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, or Physics. Equivalent field are also acceptable.

Experience

• BS with 8+ years or equivalent experience or MS with 6+ or equivalent experience of hands-on product design, development, and manufacturing experience. Or equivalent

• Expertise in Electrical and Electro-mechanical component and assembly design and manufacturing process.

• Expertise in panel layout and schematic design.

• Experience with electrical and electro-mechanical components in systems design

• Strong project management skills with a consistent track record.

• Cost Savings - Strong commercial focus

• Ability to engage with and report to key stakeholders

• Experience leading vendors, contract manufacturers, and design firms.

• Proficiency in value engineering, process development, should-cost modeling, and DFA/DFM/DFx methodologies.

• Demonstrated ability to manage electromechanical suppliers and contract manufacturers.

• Knowledgeable in regulatory standards such as FDA, NSF, CSA, UL, ISO 13485 in the medical products industry.

• Skilled in CAD Design software such as SolidWorks, Pro/e, or equivalent.

• An understanding of phase gate development processes across diverse teams is helpful.

• Medical devices experience is helpful.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Expertise in building should-cost models for sourced materials.

• Ability to work independently under ambiguous demands within a global organization.

• Demonstrated technical writing skills for producing detailed reports and documents.