Compliance Engineer - 12 Month FTC

Job description
Site Name: UK – County Durham – Barnard Castle
Posted Date: Jul 7 2025

GSK Barnard Castle is a key secondary manufacturing site and has invested heavily in industry 4.0 state of the art, bespoke equipment to support sustained new product introductions and volume increases, and as a key supplier of some of GSK\’s blockbuster products, the site contributes revenues of ~$2Bn annually.

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued, and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

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As the Compliance Engineer, you will manage all aspects of Engineering compliance across Engineering at the Barnard Castle secondary site.

You will ensure GSK Compliance Systems are applied in a systematic and sustainable manner within the Engineering Department and support the improvement in compliance related areas and activities by application of the Quality Management System and Engineering standards to ensure satisfactory outcomes from Regulatory inspections are achieved.

In this role you will…

• Management and governance of area engineering safety and quality KPI\’s and alerts, including Deviation, PM DE & Critical alarm management and ownership for Engineering. Ownership of the Engineering Change Control, MC and PIMMS process for Engineering to ensure effective on time completion, archiving and reporting.
• Maintain the risk management system for Engineering to ensure all risks are documented and actioned to ensure risks are mitigated within agreed milestones.
• Ensure documentation and MyLearning curricular periodic review and retention is managed.
• Chair Engineering governance meetings and attend engineering and business aligned governance meetings as Engineering representative.
• Management Monitoring audit universe and adherence to schedule throughout the year including conducting audits for both quality and EHS.
• Support GMP and safety audits including fronting as required.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Understanding of principles of Quality Management Systems and Engineering Standards.
• Good organisational skills.
• Proven communication skills including presenting to groups.
• Ability to work across cross functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• Previous experience in compliance management or engineering management
• HNC or Degree or equivalent in relevant engineering related subject

Closing Date for Applications: 21st July 2025 (COB)

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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 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.

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