Digital PPI Expert (m/f/d)

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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.

A Day in the Life:

We are seeking a Digital PPI (Practical Process Improvement) Specialist to drive operational excellence using digital solutions and data insights. This role extends beyond traditional continuous improvement by embedding automation, data engineering, and application development into PPI initiatives. You will partner with site leadership and cross-functional teams to digitize, automate, and optimize business processes, leveraging platforms such as Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI), SQL-based data environments, SAP systems and modern AI based development solutions where applicable.

The ideal candidate combines data intelligence understanding with a software engineering mindset and enabling scalable, data-driven process improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the deployment of the PPI Business System with a strong focus on digital transformation and automation
• Design and implement scalable digital solutions to eliminate waste, reduce manual effort, and improve process reliability
• Translate business process requirements into technical solutions and system workflows including Automation & Application Development
• Develop and maintain Power Apps applications, Power Automate workflows, and Power BI dashboards
• Build and optimize SQL queries, data models, and pipelines to support operational insights
• Integrate data and workflows across systems, including SAP and other enterprise platforms
• Develop applications for process monitoring, data visibility and optimization in a highly regulated environment
• Act as a bridge between business stakeholders and IT/engineering teams

Qualifications:

Education & Experience

• Advanced Degree with 3+ years, or Bachelor’s Degree with 5+ years of experience in: Application development within a highly regulated industry with strong digital/technical implementation expertise
• Preferred fields: Engineering, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Operations, or related discipline

Technical Skills (Required):

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Power Platform:
• Power Apps (Canvas & Model-driven apps)
• Power Automate (workflow automation)
• Power BI (dashboarding and data visualization)
   
• Strong proficiency in SQL (data extraction, transformation, optimization)
• Profound knowledge in C#, GitHub, Java Script, Web Services as well as AI Tools
• Expertise in operating within a Linux environment
• Experience with software development principles (e.g., version control, modular design, APIs)
• Experience integrating or working with SAP (e.g., ECC, S/4HANA) or similar ERP systems

Strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills

• Experience in data-driven decision-making and financial impact validation
• Ability to operate in a matrixed, global organization
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and business audiences
• Experience in cGMP or regulated environments preferred
• Familiarity with regulated documentation, data governance, cloud platforms (Azure), or APIs/integration frameworks
• Background in Agile or DevOps methodologies
• Strong communication skills in English, German would be a plus

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a dynamic and innovative environment.
• Professional development and career growth opportunities.
• Collaborative and supportive work culture.
• We offer you a varied role in a dynamic and international environment, along with a corporate culture that embraces integrity, intensity, involvement and innovation. Thermo Fisher Scientific supports its employees through training programs, internal development opportunities, and numerous employee benefits.

For the Linz location, compensation is based on the collective agreement of the Austrian chemical industry. For this position, we offer attractive remuneration commensurate with your qualifications and experience (statutory minimum according to the collective agreement of the Austrian chemical industry: € 65.605,54 gross per year on a full-time basis). Thermo Fisher Scientific is committed to performance-based compensation above the collective agreement. Experience, competence, performance, and commitment of our employees are key factors in determining remuneration.

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 and expression, genetic information, veteran status, age or disability status.