Site Specialist II

Job Title: Lab Support Technician

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

Unity Lab Services provides a single source for integrated lab service, support and supply management. Our customized service offerings and world-class service experts have the flexibility and experience to uniquely address our customer’s laboratory's business needs.

This position is based in Groton, CT.

Discover Impactful Work:

The position is focused primarily on scientific support services within Unity Lab Services core offerings of stockroom services, material handling, shipping/receiving, and lab support.

A Day in the Life:

• Provide shipping support; process, pack and sort packages and freight as advised
• Performs related services, such as picking up packages from designated drop off locations to be shipping, filling shipments with dry ice, cold pack, etc.
• Receipt of materials into multiple approved electronic inventory systems.
• Subdividing, repackaging and sampling of all material types, to include hazardous materials.
• Complete GxP quality inspections on incoming materials, to include but not limited to active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), Excipients, Raw Materials, Drug Substances, Controlled Substances, and Hazardous Materials.
• Maintain excellent customer service and assure on time delivery (OTD).
• Removes cardboard and trash as needed (Detrashing).
• Delivers direct shipment orders to end users.

• Lab consumables, bulk chemical, reagent, freezer, and sample inventories

• Performing electronic and physical inventory transactions for all materials.
• Provide equipment maintenance/cleaning support, including but not limited to hoods, centrifuges, processors, stainer reagents, etc.

Keys to Success:

Education

• High school diploma or GED required
• Associates or Bachelor's Degree in related field preferred but not required

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Experience in laboratory setting or services preferred
• Proven customer service skills
• Computer/software skills (i.e. Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Able to fluently read, write and speak English.
• Displays a high level of confidentiality for both customer and Fisher.
• Must possess a strong desire to serve the customer, and the interpersonal skills to deal with various levels of personnel at the customer site. Must maintain Thermo Fisher Scientifics’ Four-I Values
• Must possess the operating skills to use hand held scanners and learn to enter data in various systems as vital.
• May pass through areas where chemical based allergens may be in use (such as penicillin, tetracycline, etc)
• Able to lift, push and pull 30-50 pounds consistently and use material handling equipment such as push carts and pallet jacks.
• Must be able to work overtime as the need arises.
• Covid-19 vaccination required

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. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.