Job Description

Do you have a passion for innovative ideas and groundbreaking discoveries? With over $1 billion invested annually in R&D, at Thermo Fisher Scientific you’ll help solve some of the world’s toughest challenges, from giving cancer patients hope, ensuring safe drinking water and helping law enforcement take on cases through forensics. We empower our teams to put science into meaningful action and give our R&D colleagues the autonomy, resources and tools they need to take science a step beyond.

Location/Division Specific Information

Madison, WI / Chemical Analysis Division - Spectroscopy

How will you make an impact

With your analytical skills and broad engineering background, you will work closely with multi-disciplinary R&D product development teams to develop and lead reliability testing for high quality scientific instrumentation. This includes development and codifying system architecture, optical design, FMEA & P-diagrams for projects and crafting and implementing test plans to prove performance, isolate and fix root cause of failures, and set published and manufacturing specifications

What will you do

• Apply the theories and principles of science, mathematics, statistics, and engineering to develop highly robust reliability test plans, equipment and software.

• Evaluate performance at component and system levels via modeling and experimental methods during integration and testing phases.

• Design system level test plans, lead FMEA, DoE, RCCA activities and drive follow up with project team members

• Develop and maintain technical requirements for product development projects.

• Perform data analysis, document results of system test plans using detailed, written test reports

• Provide regular feedback to project managers on critical issues pertaining to technical and schedule risks.

• Build positive relationships with product development through strong technical leadership.

How will you get here

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry required, MS preferred

Experience

• 7+ years new product development experience bringing scientific products to market

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Demonstrated proficiency with FMEA, DOE, RCCA techniques for new product development

• Proven system level design experience pertaining to scientific instrumentation products.

• Demonstrated proficiency with statistical data analysis techniques and software (JMP, R, Excel).

• Demonstrated ability to apply scientific principles to tackle multi-functional or domain design challenges.

• Programming skills to support development of custom test fixtures and procedures (C#, Python)

• Ability to independently drive innovative solutions, test practices and technologies.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Process oriented with demonstrated attention to details.

This position has not been approved for relocation assistance.

Our global team of more than 100,000+ colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.