Logistics Coordinator – Maintenance

Employment Type: Full time Work Schedule: Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions: Office

Position Overview

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.

This individual possesses the ability to adapt, work independently and collaboratively on projects as needed, and can apply critical thinking to a multitude of varying, nuanced issues.

Responsibilities

• Participates in and supports department projects.
• Coordinates, supports, and performs logistics and administrative work to support the department.
• Ensures a high level of support, service, reliability, and availability to internal departments.
• Ensures efficient and effective operations of the section.
• Supports the day-to-day operations of the study setup.
• Ensures all activities are implemented in compliance with company good practices and client requirements.
• Completes ongoing training on new regulations concerning all clinical supplies and GxP activities.
• May coordinate or serve as a liaison cross-functionally.
• Oversee the daily drug product/medical device receipt, ordering, storage, label printing, labeling activities, inventory management, distribution, return drug accountability and destruction.
• Ensure all activities implemented by PPD Depots align with company SOPs and Client requirements.
• Track inventories and expiration dates of all department drug products and medical devices.
• Issue monthly status reports.
• Arranges purchases of additional supplies upon request.
• Maintain Updated PPD Owned Metrics Indicators Reports.
• Maintains accurate data in electronic management systems for assigned studies.
• Sets up and leads meetings pertaining to quality issues.
• Investigate and draft quality events (QE).
• Perform root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance to ensure accuracy of QE(s).
• Oversees / manages the group email box, providing key responses to questions and concerns.
• Follows up with necessary staff members to find resolution to identified quality issues.
• Work with Global Site Services staff or directly with Central Lab contracted vendors to identify or otherwise verify vendor non-compliance.
• Escalates issues to leadership/appropriate departmental leads.

Requirements

• Education: High school diploma or equivalent experience is required. Relevant formal academic or vocational qualification preferred.
• Experience: Minimum of 2 years of general logistics coordination 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.
• Skills:
  • Proven ability to successfully implement logistics strategies and improve operational efficiency.
  • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and ability to learn new software quickly.
  • Excellent verbal communication skills and attention to detail.
  • Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information.
  • Proven negotiation and problem resolution skills.
  • Strong time management and organizational skills.

Company Information

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.