Project Engineering Placement Swindon 2023

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work. You’ll have the opportunity to grow and learn in a culture that empowers your development. We have built an inclusive, global environment that values the power of diverse talent, backgrounds, and experiences to drive speed, efficiency, innovation, and growth.

Our internship program will give you a chance to get real world business experience and build your network before graduation. We are seeking an upbeat, responsible intern to join our growing organization.

In this position, you will learn the ins-and-outs of our daily routines and procedures. You will focus on learning how our organization runs and will gain valuable insight that can further your interest in your chosen career field. This position has many opportunities to offer!

Customers throughout the globe rely on our extensive range of products and services—from next-generation instruments to everyday lab essentials to life-saving medicine.

If you desire to be a part of a world-class team, Thermo Fisher Scientific can provide you with the opportunity to work in quality assurance and regulatory affairs to produce products that enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

Key Responsibilities

• Working with relevant Managers and Department Heads to generate automation strategies for existing and future business product lines.
• Working autonomously to generate, report on and deliver project plans for all own engineering activities
• Handling site and corporate targets and measures, including customer, colleague and supplier management, ensuring actions are completed on target
• Offer expertise and steer new product introductions on automation engineering topics to define activity required to deliver the automation strategy of the project
• To act as client liaison and work closely with respective counterparts as client site to align processes across multiple manufacturing sites
• Ensure cGMP is applied in the work area and aligns with cGMP through following site SOP’s
• Proactive in finding solutions to problems and identifying areas for improving their work environment. As well as core engineering skills
• Understand and follow quality procedures to meet the requirements of quality standards relevant to the workplace.
• Understand the internal and external regulatory environment pertinent to the sector and the sponsoring company and follow regulations proficiently whilst keeping up to date with any changes.
• Understand and apply problem solving techniques.
• Participate in continuous performance improvement.
• Learn and apply information extracted from engineering drawings, specification diagrams and maintenance manuals and/or computer database systems including accurate data input.
• Apply technical knowledge relevant to a single specialist field or a number of fields (mechanical, electrical, instrumentation).

Communication

• Promote a positive, professional and pro-active culture within the site
• To communicate well at all levels, internally and externally, accepting a professional approach.
• To promote the Engineering business capabilities both internally and externally.

EH&S

• Understand emergency procedures and follow safe systems of work.
• Ensure compliance with environment, health and safety rules, signage and instructions at all times.
• Ensure timely reporting and investigation of all accidents, near misses and breaches of rules.

Qualifications

• Pursuing an engineering-related Bachelor's degree
• 0+ years of experience preferred
• Strong project management skills
• Ability to work independently and proactively initiate and complete tasks
• Ability to handle change and respond to change processes in a positive manner
• Pragmatism with strong organisation abilities
• Self-motivated, pro-active approach to address meaningful assignments
• Strong project ownership ethic with “can do” behaviours
• Able to work within and deliver critical timelines
• Good interpersonal abilities and the self-confidence to use these skills to convince others to buy-into proposals and plans
• Able to multi task and prioritise within a changing environment

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.