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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.

Senior Material Handler                                                                        Warrington                                                          

37.5hrs working week                                        

Position Summary:

Responsible for the successful completion of all aspects of Material Handling work tasks. Ensure site schedule adherence for all internal customers is achieved in a timely and efficient manner. Be supportive of Lead material handler in the day to day running of the team.  Understand and implement all process improvements including PR administration, Change control (ECO’s) utilizing the PPI methodology.  A customer focused attitude and approach to all daily tasks, ensuring customer needs are met.  Ensure inventory accuracy targets are met across all materials. Support the team in achieving their goals. 

Education & experience

• Experience of working within a regulated life science, pharmaceutical or medical device business is preferable

• Proven ability to consistently and independently follow policies and procedures; written and verbal instruction, and to meet schedules required. 

• Working knowledge of SAP/ERP and business computer software with logistics related databases booking system is preferable.

• Proven continuous improvement skills

• Excellent communication skills at various levels

• Self-motivated, tenacious and pays meticulous attention to detail

Key Responsibilities

• Take an active role in process improvements to increase efficiency or productivity, utilizing the PPI business system to constantly raise the bar in the material handling team.

• Perform material handling duties in line with current SOP’s and in compliance with current ISO standards.

• Ensure work orders are picked correctly with special attention to detail when carrying out this process.

• Assist customers in ensuring all targets are reached on time every time.

• Support the Team Leader to achieve inventory accuracy across all areas meets a minimum of 97.5%.

• Ensure delivery of materials with a Right First Time and On Time Delivery of 99%.

• Maintain a clean and safe working environment for everyone who enters the material handling areas.

• Help the team in PPI activity such as Gemba, RCCM and JDI completion.

• Train other operators as required if SME.

• Raise and complete the full administration of PR’s to document non conformances in a timely manner.

• Administration of the change control system (ECO’s) to make improvements to processes.

• Represent the material handling team meetings and audits in a professional manner.