Engineering Operations Manager (Utilities & Facilities)

The Engineering function at the GSK Ware site is responsible for the leadership of technical expertise to support the manufacturing, automation, and controls systems for all production operations to ensure safety, quality and production targets are achieved.  We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our team at the site at Ware.

Reporting into the Utilities & Facilities Director at the Ware Site, you will be a member of the Engineering Leadership team, accountable for providing leadership to an engineering team of circa 20 people. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Management and Leadership of the engineering team aligned to site Utilities & Facilities  to deliver Safety, Quality, Compliance, Performance and Culture Objectives (for Engineering and Site Strategy).

• Ensuring team skills are maintained and developed to maintain and improve capacity and capability, including effective coaching of the team.

• Ensuring minor capital projects which are managed by your team meet agreed level of quality, cost and time, support planning and prioritization of capital investment through input into the development of site capital plan and site facility plan applicable to area of operation.

• Developing and maintaining good working relationships with external specialist companies, internal technical authorities and global platform specialists engaged to deliver projects, improvements or provide support services.

About You:

This role would suit a motivated person who has strong experience of leading an engineering team, preferably within GMP or highly regulated manufacturing-based environment.  As a professional engineer (Chartered or working towards chartered status), you will have a strong track-record of delivery in engineering technical or leadership positions. You will be required to demonstrate an ability to understand and translate strategy, engage and empower the team to deliver the business ambition. You will be focused on providing solutions and continuous improvement.

About Ware Manufacturing Site:

Medicines at Ware are presented as either Respiratory devices or in Oral Solid Dose form. The site holds a unique position in our network as the only site responsible for launching the company’s pipeline of new medicines in these dose forms, many of which are life saving medicines. A series of investments in new state-of-the-art equipment are being made that will support delivery of a record number of new products.

CLOSING DATE for applications:  Friday 19th of July 2024 (COB).

Basic Qualifications:

• Engineering degree or equivalent experience.

• Experience within an engineering / manufacturing context (ideally within utilities, facilities or building services).

• Demonstrates understanding of current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP)

Benefits:

GSK offers a range of benefits to its employees, which include, but are not limited to:

• Competitive base Salary

• Annual bonus based on company performance

• Opportunities to partake in on the job training courses

• Opportunities to attend and partake in industry conferences

• Opportunities for support for professional development and chartership (GSK are accredited by IET, IMechE, IChemE and other professional bodies)

• Access to healthcare and wellbeing programmes

• Employee recognition programmes

If you would like to learn more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK we would suggest looking at our webpage Life at GSK | GSK.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel