The Thermo Fisher Fremont site partners with dozens of local non-profit organizations throughout the year to help those in need and serve our local community. Over the last several years, we’ve worked with organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, Family Giving Tree and Project Linus, to name a few. We also participate in annual Bay Area events such as the Bay Area Science Festival and the Bay Area Tech Challenge.

Thermo Fisher Fremont site is currently partnering with Project Linus to make blankets for children in need. Further, beginning in November, we will also participate in the Family Giving Tree annual Holiday Wish Drive to provide gifts for Bay Area children, families, and seniors from low-income households.

Beyond this, across the broader organization, Thermo Fisher Scientific does a tremendous amount of work with communities across the country, and across the world. Further information about Thermo Fisher’s corporate social responsibility can be found here: https://corporate.thermofisher.com/us/en/index/corporate-social-responsibility.html

The Fremont site produces over 4,500 unique products. Some of our most popular products at the moment include:

• Controls for COVID-19 PCR testing to ensure tests are accurate. This product is used together with reagents from other Thermo Fisher Scientific businesses.

• Toxicology reagents which include Drugs of Abuse products. These are used to test for the presence of drugs in a patient’s urine, blood, or saliva.

The Fremont site helps healthcare professionals, and ultimately patients. Our main customers include clinicians, criminal justice, IVD laboratories and the pharmaceutical industry.

• Our therapeutic drug monitoring, immunosuppressant drug monitoring and pain management products help hospitals and physician office laboratories to ensure that they are prescribing patients the right amounts of drugs and that the patients are taking the correct amounts of their prescribed drugs.

• Through our drugs of abuse tests, customers in the criminal justice field can ensure that people are not taking illegal drugs, with the ultimate goal of rehabilitating offenders and reducing recidivism.

• With the use of our quality control products, IVD/hospital laboratories can ensure that their test results are accurate, precise, and reproducible so patients are always getting the right treatment.

• Customers in the Pharma industry use our companion diagnostic products to test patient samples and obtain accurate results to develop the right medications for all types of diseases – treating cancer, infectious diseases, etc.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science. Through our industry-leading brands, our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services.

With our unsurpassed and evolving portfolio mix, we serve our customers by accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies, and increasing productivity in their laboratories.

Additional details regarding the areas of science that we serve can be found here: https://corporate.thermofisher.com/us/en/index/about.html

Some of the common problems we face in production are meeting product specification needs, which requires our technical team, who typically have backgrounds in chemistry, biology, engineering, or biochemistry, to troubleshoot and make adjustments to ensure products meet specification and perform as designed and agreed upon by regulatory agencies like the FDA.

Thermo Fisher provides many internship opportunities and Early Talent Programs. Our internships are usually offered for a 10-12 week-period to students currently enrolled in undergrad, graduate and Ph.D. programs. In addition, opportunities are provided for mentorship, structured learning, and leadership development. Successful interns may be invited to interview for our leadership development programs or direct hire positions upon graduation. At this point, a formal internship program for High School Internships is offered in Massachusetts with further locations under review.

Thermo Fisher provides a broad variety of job opportunities for all levels in many different business and technical areas, including positions not requiring a college degree or High School degree, particularly in Operations and Manufacturing. Therefore, we encourage students and applicants at all levels to check out our job postings in Fremont, the Bay Area, USA-wide and globally.

Job postings can be found on our Thermo Fisher career website:

• Search and apply for positions at jobs.thermofisher.com

  • For internships search “intern” in search bar or filter by job category in “Search Jobs” tab

  • Join our talent community

• Follow us on social media

• Follow our hashtags

  • #LifeAtThermoFisher

  • #StartYourStory

When a new employee comes on board, they undergo an extensive onboarding process where they learn about the company and receive training specific to their job function. In addition to the onboarding process, site culture is a priority in Fremont. We foster a work environment where people can bring their authentic selves to work every day, and the site holds regular fun employee events, like summer BBQs, holiday parties and more.

As a responsible corporate citizen, Thermo Fisher Scientific is committed to protecting the environment, as well as the health and safety of our employees. To this end, our company does the following:

• Comply with all applicable environmental, health and safety (EHS) laws, regulations, and other related standards.

• Operate in a manner that ensures a safe work environment.

• Continuously improve and periodically evaluate our EHS performance and take necessary preventative and corrective measures; and

• Communicate EHS policies and programs to employees.

Further, we have robust health and safety protocols in place for COVID-19 health and safety in the workplace.

The Fremont site is mainly focused on biochemistry, biology, organic chemistry, and manufacturing engineering.

By 2030, Thermo Fisher Scientific will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from our operations by 30%, from our 2018 levels. This goal was established in 2019 and is focused on tackling emissions resulting from our sites and vehicles. This target encompasses scope 1 and 2 emissions which includes energy use for all buildings and company vehicles. Our progress towards this target will be reported annually via our CSR Report & CDP filing.

In alignment with the UN Paris Climate Agreement and the Science Based Targets initiative, we have committed to net-zero carbon emissions throughout our operations as well as our supply chain and product footprint by 2050.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, and with the breadth of customer and patient needs, it’s impossible to pick a single product.

Currently, at our Fremont site, our team is very proud of the quality control products we are producing to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Our quality control products are an essential piece of every Thermo Fisher test kit. And on average, 1 in every 3 COVID-19 tests in the U.S. is a Thermo Fisher test.