Mechanical Engineer in City of Westminster

We are looking for an Engineer to join our Utilities & Facilities Mechanical Platform team providing engineering expertise to the Ware Campus. Located in Hertfordshire, GSK's Ware site is one of the key manufacturing centers for GSK, manufacturing medicines and supplying globally. Reporting to the Mechanical Platform Equipment Lead for the U&F Engineering Team, the role holder will hold and develop platform expertise on a range of mechanical system infrastructure. These systems are aligned to Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Research and Development and Laboratory facilities. We are looking for an engineer with a demonstrable background in mechanical systems. The role requires application of specialist mechanical engineering knowledge to support the technical authority and subject matter expert for changes to safety systems, maintenance lifecycle plans and performance improvements to utilities across the campus. The Ware Campus is seeing a significant amount of investment in steam main distribution, seeing multiple large capital asset refreshment programmes in place across the campus. The role holder will influence and provide technical guidance facilitating this expansion.

• To provide short term (Day-to-Day) and long-term Mechanical Engineering support to optimise plant availability, performance, equipment reliability and cost.
• Responsible for assessing and proposing improvements across Mechanical systems, Hazardous Utilities, and associated Infrastructure on site (supporting documentation and validation reviews).
• Supporting and in some cases managing mitigations on a range of gaps from GSK Quality Procedures and Engineering Standards
• Frequent interaction with Quality and Safety Practitioners and Regulatory bodies (via regulatory GMP audits and product market-specific audits).
• Trained to perform root cause analysis of deviations, including collaborating with various departments (eg; Engineering, Quality, EHS and Production).
• Supporting and driving conformance to asset maintenance strategy on Mechanical systems (such as PSSR schedule adherence) and integrating Continuous Improvement techniques (looking to further integrate digital and data processes to optimise operational effectiveness of the plant).
• To ensure mechanical asset integrity is maintained and meets the requirements of health, safety and environmental regulations (I.e., PSSR, BS EN13480, ASME B31.3).
• Providing direction for embedded service partners to ensure the contractual deliverables are achieved.
• To support the delivery of mechanical engineering capital projects, by providing technical support through each stage of the project lifecycle.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

Relevant engineering qualifications and experience is required. A good standard of numeracy and literacy is essential. You will be a willing learner and a good communicator who takes personal accountability, ownership and action. Good verbal, written and computer communication skills are needed, and you will be able to adopt a participative management style to empower the team (by involving them in performance evaluation and improvement processes).

Medicines at Ware are presented as either Respiratory devices or in Oral Solid Dose form, and the site has circa 1,500 highly motivated and capable people working at it. The Ware site holds a unique position in our network a site responsible for launching the company's pipeline of new medicines in oral and solid dose forms, as well as operating a high-volume commercial production for respiratory devices.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) or Bachelor of Science (BSc) in an Engineering discipline (or relevant experience and working towards)
• Incorporated Engineer Status (or working towards)
• Relevant experience of working within manufacturing engineering teams
• Knowledge of and experience of working within highly regulated (GMP) environments

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 inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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
• Opportunities for tailored training to develop expertise in various areas of mechanical systems.