Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards, Cleanroom: no hair products, jewelry, makeup, nail polish, perfume, exposed piercings, facial hair etc... allowed, Office, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.)

Job Description The Opportunity

As part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, we're doing important work. Surrounded by collaborative colleagues, we offer you the support and opportunities that only a global leader can give you. Our respected, growing organization has an outstanding strategy for the near term and beyond. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. Alongside clinical research through our PPD® clinical research portfolio, our work in accelerated enrollment solutions optimizes each step of the patient journey in clinical trials, such as securing sites and recruiting patients, allowing for more patients to participate in clinical research. Your determination to put patients at the heart of every decision will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Maintenance Engineer IThe Company

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, whose mission it is to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. You’ll do important work. And you’ll have the opportunity for continual growth and learning in a culture that empowers your development. With revenues of more than $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and chances to define significant contributions to the world.

The Biologics units within the Pharma Service Group business group produces API (active pharmaceutical ingredients) in drug substance. This material enables customers to test new medicine and/or cure patients when the medicine is already approved for commercial manufacturing.

How will you make an impact?

At our site in Groningen we develop and produce active pharmaceutical products in a fully contamination controlled environment. This environment consists of cleanroom facilities and fully qualified utilities (HVAC systems, chillers, heating, compressed air, various water systems etc.) and operational equipment. In the role as Maintenance Engineer I you are part of the maintenance and calibration team. You are responsible for accurate scheduling, execution and administration of all in-house or outsourced Utility, Equipment and Facility maintenance activities (both preventive and corrective).

To be successful, intensive interaction with stakeholders (i.e., Procurement, Operations, Quality departments, contractor companies etc.) is key. It is the Maintenance and Calibration department obligation to make sure to provide a continuous operational GMP compliant facility and equipment/Utilities to all stakeholders..

The key responsibilities are:

• Execution of plant maintenance (preventive and corrective) and calibration in a Quality
• GMP compliant way  (execution and/or contractor mentorship, administration etc.).
• Spare part management.
• Working according to current Quality (cGMP) and safety standards
• Participating in the 24/7 Engineering on-call team.
• Providing Engineering support to all stakeholder departments (Operations, material management, Quality Control etc.)

What will you bring to the team

• Engineering education (Dutch: MTS/HTS)
• Knowledge of Electrical systems, HVAC, cooling and heating technique.
• Excellent interpersonal competences, work pleasantly with people with differing backgrounds and in different departments.
• Analytical skills related to problem solving
• Language skills NL and ENG (both verbal and in writing)
• Can do mentality, achieving results and getting the job done

Preferences

• 5 years’ experience in hands on Engineering role
• Knowledge in operational (automation) technology (OT)
• Scheduling skills, experienced with ERP systems

Our offer

• Direct contract with Thermo Fisher Scientific with a competitive salary, holiday allowance, flex benefit allowance and annual incentive bonus
• Excellent career progression opportunities within a growing global employer
• Training and courses available via our Thermo Fisher University to continuously develop yourself
• Collaborative work in an international environment
• Strong Team Spirit and many company and team activities
• An extended employee benefit arrangement program
• This is an on-site full-time position (40 hours).

We encourage candidates that enjoy working in a diverse, multi-disciplinary, groundbreaking technology environment where personal development and team cooperation are key to success, to make the impossible, possible for our customers. Diversity in our teams is an important element to build an effective and challenging working environment! Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement are key values that we expect of all that are part of our community.

• 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. #Start Your Story at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.