Director, R&D, Environmental and Process Monitoring (EPM)

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do 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.

How will you make an impact?

When you join us at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll be part of a smart, driven team that shares your passion for exploration and discovery. With revenues of $22 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.

Location/Division Specific Information

US – Massachusetts – Franklin

What will you do?

• Because results are important, you will be accountable for prioritizing and delivering a steady stream of new products for the Environmental and Process Monitoring (EPM) product portfolio, where the expectation is that customer needs are met both on-time and on-budget
• As an exceptional go-getter with the ability to lead a global, multi-disciplinary R&D organization, you will provide technical focus and insight, and ensure that the team delivers product development to meet growth objectives within a product and technology roadmap
• With a focus on customers, you will develop a network of Key External Experts, Leaders and collaborators, working together to advance innovation into enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer
• As a developer of talent, you will lead, coach, and develop a team of diverse technical talent while fostering a culture of inclusion and accountability
• As a team player, you will help the team to make tough, but necessary trade-off decisions that can focus and leverage available resource to drive long term sustainable advantage
• As a person with strong social agility, you will navigate our functional matrix and work collaboratively to achieve the success of every product introduction
• As someone who is comfortable with healthy conflict in an environment of trust, you will have the courage to help the organization balance portfolio decisions with tension between short term and long term opportunities

How will you get here?

Education

• Minimum requirement of masters degree in scientific field or equivalent experience

Experience

• 10+ years of meaningful global R&D experience, Environmental and Process Monitoring experience helpful, but not required
• Interactions with Global Environmental Regulatory Entities (such as the Environmental Protection Agency)
• Intellectual Property Portfolio Management
• Familiarity with Design for Manufacture and Design for Six Sigma
• General engineering disciplines associated with analytical instrument development helpful

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Familiarity with Design for Manufacture and Design for Six Sigma
• Talent development
• Matrix environments
• Agile Development Methodology
• Voice of Customer

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.