**Work Schedule** 7 1/2 hr shift **Environmental Conditions** Laboratory Setting **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. Location/Division Specific Information: Monza site is an outstanding pharmaceutical contract manufacturing and development facility, specialized in aseptic injectable drugs, with a growing focus on biologics. Joining more than 1800 colleagues on site, the selected candidate will experience an excellent, international, and fast-growing environment. With revenues exceeding $24 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and chances to create meaningful contributions to the world. How Will You Make an Impact?: As Microbiological Testing Technician, you will join the QC Microbiological Lab, reporting to the laboratory supervisor. Using your technical and analytical skills, you will support Grade-A sterile production operations by ensuring the quality control microbiology testing. You will thrive in a fast-paced team of professionals, passionate about sterile drugs production and for delivering life-saving drug products to patients across the world! A Day in the Life: + perform biological and microbiological analysis of raw materials and finished products in accordance with the cGMP (sterility, bioburden and endotoxin testing), and presenting in a timely manner to the supervisor any anomalies; + perform microbiological validation activities; + review laboratory records; + prepare and sterilize culture media and controls as required by SOP; + work in support of sterile production departments; + look after the instruments, materials and working environment Education: + MSc in biology or biotechnology Experience: + Validated experience as a microbiological analyst in a GMP production site + Experience with aseptic laboratory technique, aseptic gowning technique, pipette use, bioburden, sterility testing, and environmental monitoring 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. 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.