Associate Scientific Writer

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development, and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Location/Division Specific Information

Our GMP Labs team has a direct impact on improving patient health through the expertise of scientists, industry thought leaders and therapeutic experts. As the world leader in serving science, our laboratory professionals bring their commitment to accuracy and quality to deliver groundbreaking innovations.

Discover Impactful Work

• Assists in the coordination and preparation of basic scientific documents under direct supervision.
• Responsible for preparing and editing scientific documents to meet or exceed quality standards.
• Assists in the design, preparation and review of analytical protocols for validation or analytical studies.

A Day in the Life

• Prepares and/or assists in the preparation of scientific documents such as Certificate of Analysis or other basic report shell creation.
• Ensures that electronic reports are consistent and comply with required formats.
• Reviews data tables and listings and ensures that errors are corrected.
• Edits and performs a quality control review of scientific documents prior to creation of the final pdf deliverable.
• Ensures compliance with policy and procedure on publications.
• Reviews technical documents for accuracy, formatting, consistency and compliance to protocols or SOPs.
• May represent the laboratory on project teams and update team members on the status of study reports.
• Acts as a liaison on interdepartmental projects when reports are required.
• Keeps updated on the guidelines and requirements of the FDA and other international regulatory agencies for reference in the development of required documents.
• Mentored/trained by senior staff.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Keys to Success

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic/vocational qualification

Experience

• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to at least 2 years) or equivalent combination of education, training, & experience.
• In some cases, an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Working knowledge of scientific terminology, medical, pharmaceutical and research concepts
• Knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets, table and graph generation
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Detail oriented
• Computer skills including Microsoft Office
• Time management skills
• Good editorial and proofreading skills
• Problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work well in a collaborative team environment

Work Environment

Thermo Fisher Scientific values the health and wellbeing of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive. Below is listed the working environment/requirements for this role:

• Able to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.
• Able to work upright and stationary and/or stand