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, ensuring food safety, or helping find cures for cancer.

The Role

The Senior Project Manager, Cost Engineering will provide governance across divisional strategic project costing initiatives to ensure timely delivery and successful program execution through partnerships with Value Assurance / Value Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Procurement, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Operations, and Product Management. This role maintains program commitments, timelines, and customer relationships, with a focus on delivering bottom line business results through creative problem solving and cross-functional teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate end-to-end program health, providing one source of clear, accurate communication.
• Manage global resources across departments and divisions, ensuring all project team members are actively working toward established checkpoints and results while adhering to budget, schedule, and scope.
• Lead internal and external steering committee meetings and executive level report outs, monitoring actions, business performance metrics, and targets, and working with team members to close gaps and drive successful outcomes.
• Facilitate program issues, including risk mitigation, serving as a liaison with business leadership to ensure effective solutions and resolutions.
• Support the organization through the deployment of standard tools and practices.
• Identify lessons learned and standard methodologies to incorporate into the PMO (Project Management Office) process.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience in complex project management is required.
• Bachelor's degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Advanced continuous improvement experience (lean, PPI, Six Sigma, 5S) is a plus.
• Project Management and/or PMP (Product Management Process) certification is a plus.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to deliver clear messages to a wide variety of audiences.
• Strong leadership skills with an ability to influence diverse styles.
• Effective oral and written communication and executive presentation skills. Must be proficient in interpreting and communicating metric data, conducting sophisticated analysis in Microsoft Excel, and building executive-level presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Results-oriented, able to combine and interpret multiple communication streams to deliver data-driven outcomes.
• Experienced in navigating ambiguity and change with a global approach.
• Ability to travel (0 - 15%).