Lead Material Handler

Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Warehouse
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.
DESCRIPTION:
As a Lead Material Handler at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you will play a key role in ensuring reliable material flow and day-to-day warehouse support for our growing Operations.
You will be responsible for warehouse execution, inventory accuracy and material availability for production, working closely with manufacturing, supply chain, quality and external logistics partners. You will also have the opportunity to help build and improve warehouse processes from the ground up.
REQUIREMENTS:
Practical experience in warehouse, inventory or logistics operations
Experience with SAP or another ERP system; good understanding of the connection between physical material flow and system transactions
Good end-to-end understanding of warehouse processes and their impact on manufacturing and supply chain
Hands-on mindset with strong ownership and willingness to solve operational issues directly
Ability to work systematically, prioritize and make sound decisions in a dynamic environment
Good communication and collaboration skills across functions and with external partners
Ability to identify improvement opportunities and translate practical experience into clear, repeatable processes
English sufficient for day-to-day communication in an international environment
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Execute daily warehouse activities, including receiving, put-away, picking, staging, internal movements, packing and shipment handover
Ensure timely material availability for production and react to shortages, priority changes and operational exceptions
Perform warehouse and inventory transactions in SAP accurately and on time
Maintain inventory accuracy through cycle counts, discrepancy investigation and corrective actions
Support Quality Inspection and ensure materials are handled, stored, labelled and packed according to defined quality, EHS and traceability requirements
Coordinate material flow between internal warehouse, manufacturing and external warehouse / logistics partners
Manage replenishment from the external warehouse based on production demand and agreed delivery routines
Monitor shortages, delivery deviations and inventory discrepancies and drive timely resolution with relevant teams
Support testing and validation of SAP transactions, system changes and new warehouse processes before operational use
Help build and continuously improve warehouse processes, work instructions, standards and daily operating routines
Use operational data to identify recurring issues, bottlenecks and improvement opportunities
Contribute to scalable warehouse solutions