Engineering and Commissioning Manager

Closing Date for Applications – 22nd April (COB)

GSC R&D Engineering Services provides Facilities Management and Capital Projects delivery for Technical R&D sites within GSC’s Engineering and EHS organisation.

The Engineering and Commissioning Manager is responsible for ensuring that engineering change through projects is controlled in a consistent manner, and aligned to industry best practice, local legislation and GSK standards. The role will provide clear contractual requirements to all project delivery partners on commissioning requirements, inclusive of:

• Relevant standards to be followed and documentation to be produced.
• Minimum competency requirements for commissioning team members.

This role will foster a culture of transparency and trust with operations teams, service partners and customers by being present a minimum of 4 days on site per week.

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 programmes.

We embrace modern work practices; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

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In this role you will:

• Act as Responsible Person for the commissioning of projects (Minor Works and Capital Projects) across the region – ensuring compliance with GSK standards and best practice. The role will be appointed as Technical Authority for Commissioning and Management of Engineering Drawings.
• Share best practice and lessons learnt across the sites in the region, including templated commissioning protocols.
• Govern the project delivery partners for commissioning and turnover, ensuring a right-sized review of information and consequence management.
• Build communication tools to brief senior management on the sites and delivery partners’ performance against GSK standards for commissioning and drawing management.
• Building local/regional standards for minimum commissioning requirements for common systems on the sites e.g. HVAC, LEV, Fire Detection systems and provide subject matter expertise in commissioning for complex projects.

Why you?

Qualifications & Skills:

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

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant discipline (Elec, Mech or Chem) 
• Experience in the design and/or commissioning of projects, maintenance and/or operations in regulated industries (pharmaceuticals, manufacturing or other large industry)
• Experience of writing and executing commissioning procedures 

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Master’s degree and membership with relevant chartered organisation
• Experience managing documentation workflows for projects 
• Commercial awareness with an understanding of the impact of change
• Ability to act as a role model for applying standards to ensure compliance.
• Ability to establish strong working relationships with key external contract partners, to deliver appropriate site services in agreement with established contracts.
• Full member (or working towards full membership) of an internationally recognized engineering body.

Why Us?

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 organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

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 workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).

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.

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