Project Planner
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Work Schedule
First Shift (Days)

Environmental Conditions
Office

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.

Discover Impactful Work:

Fisher Clinical Services, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, is a leading provider of global clinical supply chain. With unwavering commitment to service, science and process engineering, Fisher Clinical Services is powered by people with an exceptional commitment to quality, deeply instilled ethics of personal responsibility and unrivaled expertise. We are exclusively focused on serving the packaging and distribution requirements of clinical trials across the world. Whether planning, packaging, labeling, storing, or distributing the important supplies needed to perform clinical research, for more than 27 years Fisher Clinical Services has been committed to delivering the highest possible value while ensuring adherence to the highest level of quality, performance, reliability and sustainability standards. http://www.fisherclinicalservices.com/

Location/Division Specific Information

CTD partners with pharmaceutical and biotech customers around the world to ensure the right patients get the right therapies in the right doses at the right time - a concept that we internally embrace as "There is a Patient Waiting." Our unique blend of services includes project management, packaging, distribution, transportation management and specialty logistics, ancillary supply management, clinical supply optimization, bio-repository storage and much more. Our more than 3000 employees in over 15 countries work hard every day knowing that what they do matters. This position is site based at our Allentown, PA location.

A day in the life

• Manage the data within the project server and ensure that internal and external reports are published in a timely manner
  
• Provide subject matter expertise in use of the data within the project server
  
• Lead, manage and publish project meeting results, actions and milestones
  
• Responsible for creating and maintaining multiple project schedules
  
• Development of MS project templates
  
• Complete projects updates, analysis of Critical Path with regards to OLA's and SLA's, scope and resource impacts, and ensuring accuracy of project schedules
  
• Manages multiple projects and administrative and scheduling details simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
  
• Regular interaction and episodic training with Client Services, Production and Engineering. Periodic interaction with the Label group, Inventory Control, Receiving and QA
  
• Applies Good Manufacturing Principles in all areas of responsibility
  
• Other duties may be assigned to meet business needs
  

How will you get here?

Education:

• Bachelor's degree required; Associate degree and 2 years of experience accepted in lieu of bachelor's degree
  

Experience

• 2+ years of relevant experience within project management or related experience
  
• Project Management Certification preferred
  
• MS Project experience preferred
  
• Multiple project and project office administration experience preferred
  
• PWA Administrator Experience Preferred
  
• Data Analysis Experience (SQL/SSRS) Preferred
  

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Self-disciplined at managing tasks needing to be completed on a timeline
  
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite including Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint
  
• Ability to follow-through and interface with team members participating in required schedule projects and activities
  
• Detail oriented and able to multi-task in a rapidly changing environment with frequent interruptions
  
• Able to communicate effectively in both written and oral formats
  
• Mastery of skills required to read, understand, and adhere to the SOPs and policies of a GMP environment.
  

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!

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