Packaging/Labelling Technician I - East Grinstead UK - SDG - MBD

Work Schedule

Other

Environmental Conditions

Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards, Cleanroom: no hair products, jewelry, makeup, nail polish, perfume, exposed piercings, facial hair etc... allowed

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.

Location/Division Specific Information:

Working as part of our Microbiology Division (MBD), within the Speciality Diagnostics Group, you’ll play an active part in helping us to achieve our mission. The Microbiology Division discovers microbiological solutions for the diagnosis of infectious disease and 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.

How Will You Make an Impact?:

The Process Department is responsible for daily manufacture of the Sensititre product; this consists of dispensing, drying, packaging and labelling of the finished product. The Process Operator works within a controlled clean area.

A Day in the Life:

1. Dispensing line: Feeding plates into, checking plates produced on, loading plates onto trays ready for drying;
2. Packing line: packing dried plates in foil pouches, boxing pouched plates into sales units
3. Accessory products: Assembly, bagging and/or packing of other accessory products as required.
4. Other: Reconciliation of batch numbers, manufacture of ID seals, general cleaning duties in controlled clean area and packing room areas.
5. Further duties and responsibilities as required and within the capabilities of the post holder.

Education: High School Diploma, Secondary Education, Advanced Certificate, or equivalent.

Physical Requirements / Work Environment

• Ability to lift moderate weights

Experience:

• Required: No previous work experience required
• Preferred: Previous work experience in manufacturing, operations, production or lab setting or related field
• Preferred: Experience in a cGMP environment

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• An efficient team member, you can build solid relationships which enable effective collaboration
• Communicate with your colleagues in a positive and productive manner
• With excellent attention to detail, you are able to accurately update and maintain documents
• You understand the importance of having and following process

What we Offer

• Competitive Annual Pay Rate
• Performance Related Bonus where eligible*
• Annual merit performance-based increase*

Excellent Benefits

• Flexible Benefits plan
• Life Assurance, funding towards health care benefits, income protection and an Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Scheme
• Employee Referral Bonus*
• Career Advancement Opportunities

Depending on eligibility*