Quality Assurance Specialist I

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

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

Rockford IL

Discover Impactful Work:

Provide Quality Assurance Support to the Rockford site. Provide product and quality system information to internal and external customers. Review new paperwork and proposed changes for appropriateness and determine potential effects on product quality. Help strengthen our quality system and make improvements where needed. Help educate and promote adherence to Quality Assurance policies and requirements. Work with Quality Control in the review and development of specifications, test methods and protocols.

A day in the Life:

• Provide Quality Assurance Support to the Rockford site
• Complete Customer surveys and specification verifications
• Review and approve engineering change notices and deviations for appropriateness and to determine potential effect on product quality
• Assist with the maintenance of ISO registration and the internal audit program
• Investigate quality problems
• Perform and coordinate review of raw materials to determine continued suitability at retest/review dates
• Assists with creation/modification of Certificates of Analysis templates
• Assist Customer Service, Technical Support, Regulatory Affairs, and Analytical Services in addressing customer inquiries and concerns
• Process product integrity customer complaints
• Perform training on Quality procedures
• Gather and maintain Country of Origin and animal origin information
• Review and update standard operating procedures
• Perform and coordinate incoming inspection of purchased items as a back-up
• Collect and analyze quality data
• Participate, as needed, on new product teams

Keys to Success:

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree required in a scientific field.
• 1+ years related experience in a manufacturing or quality environment

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Must be able to communicate effectively with multiple levels of staff throughout the organization
• Possess strong interpersonal skills with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and meet deadlines
• Meticulous and accurate while maintaining a vision of the result
• Employee must be self-motivated with the ability to work as a standout colleague and/or independently
• Knowledge of ISO and cGMP requirements preferred
• Works on problems of moderate scope in which analysis of situation or data requires a review of identifiable factors

Physical Requirements / Work Environment

Office Environment

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in Illinois is $48,400.00–$64,500.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

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