About the Role
Through Unity Lab Services, we offer integrated lab services, support, and supply management with customized service offerings and world-class experts to address our customers' unique laboratory business needs. Our inventory management specialists use our intuitive electronic systems and mobile scanning tools to ensure orders move efficiently from dock to desk.
Responsibilities
- Use handheld RF scanners and our mobile app to perform replenishments, stock rotation, cycle counts, order entry, returns, and backorder processing
- Receive and inspect shipments, scan and store items, and maintain cycle counts to guarantee up-to-date inventory records
- Own customer interactions—respond via email (our primary channel), follow up by phone, and assist internal partners to resolve questions and build trust
- Collaborate with supervisors and teammates to propose and implement improvements that streamline daily workflows
- Uphold safety and organization standards in every work area by following site guidelines and wearing required PPE
- Proactively monitor stock levels and flag gaps or issues to prevent operational impacts
Requirements
- 2+ years of customer-facing, retail stocking, warehouse, or inventory-control experience
- Confident using RF handheld scanners or mobile scanning apps and basic Microsoft Office tools
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills—especially via email—and a friendly, solution-focused approach
- A self-starter who thrives with detail, accountability, and teamwork
- The role primarily involves working independently at customer sites, which may include areas with chemical-based allergens like penicillin and tetracycline.
- Personal protective equipment, such as lab coats, coveralls, facemasks, and steel-toe shoes, is often required.
- The position requires regular lifting of 30-40 lbs (up to 50 lbs occasionally) and using equipment like pushcarts and forklifts to move up to 100 lbs.
- Standing, walking, and manual material handling are frequent activities, sometimes in varied temperature environments.
- Overtime work may also be necessary.
- As a condition of your employment with Thermo Fisher Scientific, you must successfully complete and satisfy Thermo Fisher’s pre-employment screening (including background check and drug test) and any customer-mandated screening, credentialing, or badging requirements.
- Customer requirements may differ from or exceed Thermo Fisher’s criteria.
Skills
- Cycle counting
- Inventory reconciliation
- Report generation
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Verbal and written communication abilities
- RF handheld scanners
- Mobile scanning apps
- Microsoft Office tools
- Email communication
Location
- Customer sites
Work Type
- First Shift (Days)
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2+ years
Education Level
- High school diploma or equivalent required
Salary/Compensations
- $27.80/hr
- $25.00–$27.90
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare
- Paid Holidays
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee benefits
- Variable annual bonus
- Choice of national medical and dental plans
- National vision plan
- Health incentive programs
- Employee assistance and family support programs
- Commuter benefits
- At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO)
- 10 paid holidays annually
- Paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave)
- Accident and life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability
- Retirement and savings programs
- Competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
- Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
About the Company
- Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion.
- Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.
- Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them.
- Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.
- Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects.
- We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!
- As the world leader in serving science, our colleagues develop critical solutions through innovation—and build rewarding careers.
- Their work is a story of purpose.
Equal Opportunity
- Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
- We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
- Thermo Fisher Scientific is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, veteran status, age or disability status.
