• Job Description

  Req#: 393239

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

  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. Discover more about our company-wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage Life at GSK | GSK

  This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

  • 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.
  • Provide Subject Matter expertise in commissioning for complex projects.
  • Act as system owner for software packages related to drawings, commissioning information and Operations and Maintenance manuals - work to sustain a programme of continuous improvement.
  • Provide oversight and management monitoring of project turnover (project Change Control and Handover Procedure) for a representative proportion of projects.

  Why you?

  Basic Qualifications:

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

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

  Preferred Qualifications:

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

  • Master’s degree in engineering or business
  • 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 enable delivery of compliant site services in agreement with established contracts.
  • Full member (or working towards full membership) of a recognized engineering body.

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  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.

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  GlaxoSmithKline plc is a British multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Brentford, England.

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