Manufacturing Technician jobs in Asheville, NC

Manufacturing Technician II

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 Manufacturing Technician II will safely and efficiently produce high-quality products, while meeting the established production schedule for catalog and bulk/custom-coated plates to achieve production goals relative to Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost.

A Day in the Life:

• Completion of weekly production work orders.

• Contribute to process documentation including batch record sheets, reports, and lab notebooks.

• Manage of raw materials and inventory in a kanban system.

• Work within our MRP system to issue materials to work orders, and perform from-stock and return-to-stock transactions.

• Using appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including a respirator when required.

• Detail the critical aspects of each production run.

• Accurately formulate reagents following the established procedures.

• Use of pipettes, accurate pipetting techniques, and scales/balances to measure small amounts of raw materials.

• Completing metrology work orders as assigned.

• Involvement in process development and occasional assistance in other work cells (detergents and plates).

• Operate CNC Machines

Keys to Success:

Education

• High school diploma or equivalent required.

Experience

• Minimum of one year of experience in a manufacturing environment.

• Brazing experience a plus!

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Ability to work safely with various chemicals and reagents.

• Ability to read and accurately follow Batch Record Sheets (BRS) and Standard Operation Procedures.

• Basic mathematical skills, including a solid understanding of the metric system, unit conversions and basic calculations.

• Understand and perform molar and % composition (W/W and V/V) calculations.

• Punctual and dependable, consistently arriving to work on time and ready to work.

• Good organizational and interpersonal skills for working effectively in a team environment.

• Ability to routinely lift 40-50 lbs.

• A desire to identify and implement continuous improvements.

We offer competitive salary, an annual incentive bonus plan, and a range of other employee benefits!

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.

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