Logistics Team Leader

As Logistics Team Leader, you will lead, mentor, and support teams across our operational areas, ensuring employee safety, product quality, regulatory compliance and team development by actively setting, promoting and developing a strong culture of collaboration, customer centricity, performance and accountability. You will take ownership for resource and assigned area management to ensure schedule adherence, as well as acting as the Operations Manager delegate where required. Understand the impact of non-compliance with standards, policies, processes and procedures as set out within GPM, FCS SOP's and Health and Safety Policies.,

• Lead the Logistics Team in all activities including management and distribution of workload, attending meetings and required delegation
• Maintain core Standard Operating Procedures for all aspects of the site specific Logistics functions
• Own Logistics Right First Time (RFT) and metrics including completion of QRs and CAPAs
• Pro-actively handle business and client priorities
• Ensure all relevant order related paperwork is completed in accordance with regulatory requirements
• Reasonable exposure to clients and governing bodies
• Support in developing an organisational understanding of and adherence to Import and Export control regulations.
Resource Management:
• Lead department tier accountability meetings
• Ensure adherence to schedule for department.
• Allocate and optimize of resources, including cross functional capability and deployment to meet schedule demand.
• Understand, support and coach team in applying PPI/Lean tools to improve process efficiencies to achieve business objectives.
• Maintain, trend, and report departmental critical metrics. (Pacing boards), Maintain good housekeeping and promote a safe working environment.
• Lead and raise Safety and Quality, risks and incidents, completing incident investigations along with identification and delivery of corrective and preventative actions.
• Drive a reporting culture, ensuring investigation, monitoring, compliance and execution of actions through tiered accountability and management systems.
• Responsible for activities and personnel within area of ownership, including the management and issuance of permits to work under safe systems of work.
• Complete operational plans in accordance with statutory, regulatory and company policies.
• Where required, update local processes and procedures, ensuring appropriate training is performed to maintain competence of team.
• Assist in regulatory and client audits.
  
  Supervisory/Team Leader experience of leading team(s) - (TFS training provided)
• Minimum of 2 years' experience working within a GMP, or highly regulated operational environment - i.e. manufacturing, warehouse, factory, packaging, production line, or a similar setting.
• Experience in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment is required
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment and prioritise effectively
• IOSH managing safely (Training will be provided)
• Proficient in use of computer systems and automated equipment
• Understanding of ERP (and business specific computer systems)
• Strong communication skills (verbal & written) - GCSE English Grade C / 4 or equivalent.
• Good numeracy skills- GCSE Mathematics Grade C / 4 or equivalent.
• Ability to work within various temperature including, but not limited to,
• Ambient (15°C-25°C)
• Cold (2°C-8°C)
• Lean/Six Sigma Certified or equivalent experience desirable
  
  Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving sophisticated analytical challenges, growing efficiency in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them.
When you're part of the team at Thermo Fisher, you'll do outstanding important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you'll be supported in achieving your career goals., At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 70,000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission-enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.