Engineering Team Manager

Site Name: UK - County Durham - Barnard Castle

Posted Date: Apr 11 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. 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.

As an Engineering Team Manager, you will provide a comprehensive and professional engineering support service for the Steriles Business Unit (SBU) to meet the business & regulatory needs of the department, with responsibility for all engineering activities associated with the production process. The successful candidate will manage a team of shifted based engineering technicians as per the key roles below.

In this role you will…

• Be responsible for the management and supervision of the Engineering team and contractors.
• Accountable for implementation and planning of EHS (Environmental, Health, and Safety) and Quality policy improvements.
• Responsible for engineering customer for small-scale projects and continuous performance improvements aligned with objectives and KPIs.
• Prepare and review Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedules and reports using MERPS.
• Communicate details of customer service, maintenance, and shutdown requirements to the business schedule planning forum, along with additional duties as defined by the Engineering Operations Manager.
• Deviation ownership and management including DMAIC.
• Oversight of change manage process within the area.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Significant experience working in cGMP or other highly regulated operational engineering or project delivery team.
• Experience leading, supporting and managing small teams.
• Experience supporting revenue/capital projects within a complex, highly regulated operational area.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• Hold a degree in an engineering discipline (or working towards).
• Project management and leading improvement activities, initiating and taking ownership of ideas.

Closing Date for Applications: 27th April 2025

When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

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.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. 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.