Operations Manager

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Cold Room/Freezers -22degreesF/-6degrees C, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.), Strong Odors (chemical, lubricants, biological products etc.), Warehouse

Job Description

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.

Reporting To 

Site Director 

Direct Reports 

• 2 × Band 5 Team Leaders 

• 1 × Band 6 Supervisor 

• Indirect leadership of hourly colleagues across three buildings 

Operational Scope 

• Function: Repack Operations – Raw Material Handling, Down-Packing, Custom Bulk 

• Footprint: Three-building operating model 

• Core Mandate: Culture transformation, operational excellence, and productivity acceleration 

 

Role Purpose 

The Production Manager (Band 7) is a people-first culture change agent accountable for transforming Repack Operations into a high-performance, highly engaged, and continuously improving operation. 

This role requires a leader with deep experience in fast-paced manufacturing environments (e.g., automotive, FMCG, high-volume regulated production) who can apply Lean, digital automation, and process efficiency principles to a complex, multi-building repack operation. 

The role balances hands-on floor leadership with strategic CI and automation deployment, ensuring sustainable gains in safety, quality, delivery, cost, and colleague engagement. 

 

Key Accountabilities 

1. People Leadership & Culture Transformation (Primary Accountability) 

• Act as a visible, authentic culture change leader, setting clear expectations for accountability, standard work, and performance. 

• Build a high-trust, high-engagement environment where colleagues feel empowered to identify problems and drive improvements. 

• Coach and develop the Band 6 Supervisor and Band 5 Team Leaders to operate as true frontline leaders, not task managers. 

• Embed daily leadership routines (Gemba, Tiered Management, problem-solving cadence). 

• Drive a strong ownership mindset around safety, quality, and productivity at all levels. 

 

2. Continuous Improvement & Process Excellence 

• Lead end-to-end Lean / CI transformation across repack operations, applying tools such as: 

• Standard Work – Including LSW 

• Value Stream Mapping 

• Yam