Farm Technician II - Garnett, KS

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.

How will you make an impact?

You are a dependable, hard-working colleague that will make a difference for our customers and fellow colleagues every day. Your impact will range from maintaining farm property, equipment, and facilities to caring for farm animals, particularly sheep.

A Day in the Life:

As part of the Microbiology Division team, you will help our customers find solutions and workflows for food, clinical and pharmaceutical environments. You will be responsible for:

• Feeding animals daily and provide care as needed.
• Setting up equipment for bleeding, maneuver animals into shoots, bleed animals as needed, and clean area thoroughly.
• Assisting with general farm upkeep of fence lines, drainage ditches, lawn, house/farm repairs including minor electrical and plumbing repairs.
• Providing basic feed and upkeep for animals on a weekend rotation basis.
• Operating company vehicles and machinery such as tractors, truck and loader.
• Checking farm for safety and security as needed.
• Using hand-held machinery, such as grinder, drill and weed eater for routine farm upkeep.
• Reporting any actual or potential safety hazards to the Supervisor, Human Resources, Safety Specialist or Senior Management.

Keys to Success:

Education

• High school diploma or equivalent required.

Experience

• Basic exposure to hand tools and equipment from a farming environment.
• 1+ years of related farm experience or equivalent experience

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Possess basic knowledge of English, math and the ability to read.
• Possess good mechanical proficiency.
• Ability walk up to 2 hours a day.
• Ability to stand up to 8 hours a day
• Lift up to 25 pounds.

We offer competitive salary, an annual incentive bonus plan, and a range of other employee benefits!