QC Scientist I, Incoming Materials Lab

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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.

Quality Control Component lab supports the site development and commercial production by sampling in all warehouses throughout the site.

As a QC Scientist you will provide routine sampling for the chemical, visual, and dimensional analysis on packaging components by following standard practices and ANSI/ASQC standard. You will manage the component sample storage area, assist with making chemical solutions for analytical methods as assigned for chemical testing on packaging components and support internal development and/or manufacturing operations. Additionally, you will make detailed observations and reviews, documents, and communicate sampling issues as well as some results.

Typical hours for this role are 7:30a-4:00p, Monday-Friday with some overtime.

What will you do?

• Conducts routine sampling for chemical testing and visual/dimensional evaluations of packaging components.
• Assists with making solutions, routine chemical testing and visual/dimensional evaluations by internally developed and compendial test methods.
• Executes validated test methods for pharmaceutical packaging components by traditional quantitative analysis, utilizing UV and IR spectroscopy, and/or traditional wet chemical testing.
• Recognizes and reports out-of-specification or unexpected results and non-routine analytical and product problems.
• Performs daily instrument calibrations / verifications as required.
• Clearly and accurately communicates the results of work by creating documentation of the testing/analysis and obtained results. Records and reports results of analysis in accordance with prescribed lab procedures and systems.
• Assists in preparing regulatory documents and other communications with outside agencies, clients, suppliers, and/or colleagues from other corporate sites.
• Contributes to writing of SOPs if needed.
• Cleans and organizes work area, instrumentation, and testing materials.
• Executes organizational skills, attention to details, teamwork as well as independent work.
• Driving a forklift in a warehouse pulling pallets down for sampling from containers.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in physical science, preferably in Chemistry or Biology preferred.
• Associate degree in Chemistry or Biology related discipline minimally required.
• Equivalent combinations of education, training, and relevant work experience may be considered with an associate degree.