Lead, Sustaining Engineering

Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of more than $40 billion and approximately 100,000 employees globally. We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve sophisticated analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, deliver medicines to market, and increase laboratory efficiency. Through our world-class brands - Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, and Unity Lab Services - we offer an unmatched combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience, and comprehensive services. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.

Details about business

We are dedicated to providing outstanding product development services to our Global Business Units. As a member of our Engineering team, you will have the opportunity to work on groundbreaking technologically sophisticated products that range from laboratory equipment to analytical instruments and remote monitoring solutions. Located in My Home Twitza, Hyderabad, our India Engineering Center (IEC) is a global research and development center that has been delivering exceptional results since its establishment in 2009. With over 150 employees, we are a team committed to developing innovative solutions that shape the future of scientific advancements.

Position Objective

As the Technical Lead your role will be crucial in supporting the global operations strategy for our Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry division. You will lead and empower a project team consisting of subject matter authorities and functional leaders to ensure the successful delivery of projects on time and with detailed outcomes. With a high degree of autonomy, you will technically adhere to the project management process and drive the achievement of project goals and objectives.

Job Responsibilities:

• Successfully lead programs and projects through a formal stage gate framework
• Plan department budget and track actuals vs forecast, and report out consistently
• Contribute to establishing sustaining & NPI portfolio operating mechanisms, structure, and process
• Develop a detailed project timeline for strategic and/or business critical projects including information such as project charter, objectives, scope, coordinating assets to drive impact and project acceleration.
• Analyze requirements and standards in reference to scheduled projects
• Resolve and define clear results, roles, and responsibilities for team members required for specific projects or initiatives
• Supervise daily tasks to ensure all project team members are actively working toward established achievements and results, and ensure consistency to budget, schedule, and scope.
• Establish and implement a project communication plan and develop information communication procedures.
• Confer with project personnel to coordinate activities and identify and resolve problems
• Coordinate between business principals to ensure project needs are met
• Prepare timely project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and calling out risks for key partners
• Initiate, review, or approve modifications to project plans in conjunction with business principals
• Build and present project report outs to leadership.
• Work towards growing Site engineering services as a business
• Establish relationships with business leaders and divisional teams to drive efficiency in the project approval and implementation phases.

Job Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree in mechanical/electrical engineering or equivalent experience will be considered.
• PMP certification will be an added advantage
• Proven experience managing projects in a product-based company for 14+ years
• Experience gained from leading projects across a global organization is desirable.
• Experience of significant capital investment projects or establishing new sites, product transfers, consolidations is desirable
• A confirmed understanding of project management tools and methodology.