Electrical Engineering Manager

We manufacture and supply reliable, high-quality medicines and vaccines to meet patients’ needs and drive our performance.

Our network of 37 medicines and vaccines manufacturing sites delivered 1.7 billion packs of medicines and 409 million vaccine doses in 2024 to help make a positive impact on the health of millions of people. Our supply chain is not just core to our operations; it’s vital to bringing our innovations to patients as quickly, efficiently and effectively as possible. Technology is transforming how we manufacture medicines and vaccines, enabling us to increase the speed, quality and scale of product supply.

We need the very best minds and capability to help us on our journey to make more complex products, harnessing the power of smart manufacturing technologies including robotics, digital solutions and artificial intelligence to deliver for patients.

Position Summary

This role will provide ongoing engineering support to RDES Operations across all Research & Development Sites in the Americas. This will include the development and improvement of processes that support the operational delivery model and interfaces with other GSK functions, service partners and other 3rd party providers.

The purpose of this role is to support the delivery of facilities that are safe, legal and compliant and to take responsibility of the delivery of hard services maintenance and technical infrastructure investment.

The incumbent will be responsible for site compliance to statutory requirements for electrical safety and DSEAR compliance.

Responsibilities

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

• Ensure that the necessary installations and competent resources are in place to enable safe, compliant and reliable operations within facilities
• Act as Technical Authority for all areas from the GSK Engineering Standards that the Local Head(s) of Engineering deem the employee competent
• Execute remediation plans from policy and standards gap assessments. Escalate risks and/or conflicts with local customer's ways of working. Specifically drive the electrical safety, and DSEAR gap mitigation to closure, reporting regular progress to management
• Ensure that guidance, standards and rules are effective and in-use, both in GSK and in service partner organizations
• Ensure that adverse events related to the role's areas of responsibility are investigated, root caused identified and corrective action put in place, through engineering controls, process improvement or escalation to appropriate management for discipline and enforcement.
• Escalate issues where resolution cannot be achieved at site level with available resources. Use formal escalation routes such as VQMS and EHSOne
• Deliver technical input to capital projects as defined by RDES standard procedures - for electrical infrastructure projects or business projects with significant electrical infrastructure changes
• Raise (and risk score using a 5 x 5 matrix) infrastructure projects to minimize the risk of safety and quality non-compliance, and to minimize the risk of business disruption through dilapidation and obsolescence
• Maintain ethics and compliance values even when potential risk exists.
• Work within the site crisis team, providing crisis management on a rotation.
• Represent the Engineer Director in forums and meetings as directed
• Appointed as Responsible Person for the following statutory areas at UK sites:
• Electrical Safety (Electricity at Work, 1989)
• Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres (DSEAR)

Why You?

Basic Qualification
 

We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
• 8+ years’ experience managing electrical engineering work and facilities services in large commercial, R&D, or industrial sites.

Preferred Qualification

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

• Proven record of management of Electrical services within complex facilities
• Displays knowledge of the Research & Development process and understands GxP requirements
• Ability to establish strong working relationships with key external contract partners, to deliver appropriate site hard services in agreement with established contracts
• Thorough understanding of statutory legislation responsibilities in a technically complex environment
• Acts as a role model for applying standards to ensure compliance
• Ability to work with minimal supervision

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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 purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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