Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
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.
REQUIREMENTS:
• Advanced Degree with no prior experience, or Bachelor's
Title: Digitalization Engineer
Organization: China Operations-Suzhou
Location: Suzhou, PRC
Reports To: MADE Leader
Position Summary:
The MADE Digitalization Engineer is primarily responsible for driving digital transformation initiatives across manufacturing, supply chain and supporting functions by identifying, designing and implementing digital solutions that improve efficiency, visibility, data integrity and process standardization. The role includes translating business needs into digital workflows, developing and optimizing system solutions, integrating manufacturing and business data, supporting process automation and digital tools deployment, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to accelerate MADE transformation.
Besides overall digitalization engineering, this role will also support user training, digital solution adoption and continuous improvement of office and shopfloor workflows. Work as an important MADE team representative to connect business teams, manufacturing teams and technical resources.
Essential Job Functions and Accountabilities:
- Analyze business processes and identify digitalization opportunities in manufacturing, supply chain, quality and engineering functions.
- Lead or support digital workflow design and implementation for systems such as OMS, PPS, SNS, MES or other MADE digital solutions.
- Translate user requirements into functional specifications, process maps and system logic.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams to improve process efficiency, visibility and data accuracy through digital tools.
- Support integration of manufacturing, supply chain and business systems to enable end-to-end process flow and data connectivity.
- Develop dashboards, reports and data visualization tools to support business monitoring and decision-making.
- Drive standardization and simplification of business processes through digital platforms and automation tools.
- Support user acceptance testing, troubleshooting, issue resolution and system optimization.
- Provide user training, documentation and change management support to improve solution adoption.
- Collaborate with AI, automation and operation teams to enable intelligent digital workflow enhancement.
- The ability to perform independently and as part of a team.
- Must be able to influence and negotiate with people and resolve issues/problems.
- Communicate recommendations and decisions across the organization.
- Demonstrated ability to lead in a fast-paced technical environment, absorb technical information, review technical information and make technical decisions.
Other Job Requirements:
Occasional travel is required, including domestic and international travel.
Educational Qualifications:
- Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Industrial Engineering, Automation or related field; Master degree is preferred.
Experience Qualifications:
- 3-5 years direct experience in digitalization, manufacturing systems, supply chain systems or related engineering role.
- Experience in manufacturing, biotech, life sciences or pharmaceutical industry is preferred.
- Direct experience in process digitalization, workflow design, ERP/MES/SCM systems, or low-code/no-code platform development is preferred.
- Good understanding of manufacturing processes, supply chain flow and business process integration.
- Proficient with Microsoft tools; Word, Excel, Power Point; experience with Power BI, SQL, Python, VBA, or other digital tools is preferred.
- Strong analytical, problem solving and teamwork skills are required.
- Experience in process mapping, user requirement gathering, testing and change management.
- Ability to analyze and process data and draw the appropriate conclusions.
- Experience prioritizing conflicting demands.
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and influencing skills.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams and facilitating teams to identify and implement solutions to complex problems.
- Excellent oral and written communication skill in English, be able to work in a multicultural environment.
- Practical experience in ERP/MES/OMS/PPS/SNS or similar digital systems.
- Ability to achieve goals independently within a challenging time frame.
Metrics:
- Number of digital solutions delivered and adopted.
- Process cycle time reduction.
- Productivity improvement or HC saving enabled by digitalization.
- Data accuracy and system utilization rate.
- User satisfaction and issue closure timeliness.
