Job description
Site Name: UK - County Durham - Barnard Castle
Posted Date: Mar 24 2026
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.
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As an Engineering technician 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.
In this role you will…
* Working with a range of equipment and technology within a Steriles Business Unit which consists of manufacture/filling & Inspect/Assembly/packaging of both syringes and vials.
* The role will be shift based, likely 24/7 or 24/5.
* Supporting day to day breakdown repairs of production / plant equipment.
* Completing Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedules & breakdown maintenance activities.
* Support for localised area projects, including new product introduction.
* Completion of tasks within Engineering Change Controls.
* Preparation, completion & ownership of GMP safety and quality documentation.
* Accountable for the delivery of SAP/MERPS activities such as Work Orders, Notifications, Data Maintenance & Ordering of plant spares.
* Delivery of Continuous Improvement to drive increased performance in line with EHS & Quality improvement objectives and KPI’s via the use of GPS tools.
* Equipment upgrades and obsolescence through continuous improvement.
* Self-management of training compliance metrics.
* Performing calibration of equipment instrumentation.
* Supervision of internal/external contractors, ensuring GMP standards, reviewing contract company details for accuracy.
* Sterile and terminally sterilised processes of products including boundary control and contamination prevention.
* Building infrastructure specific tasks concerned with, building fabric, electricity, piped services supply and drainage.
* Operation & maintenance of systems such as air compressors, VHP and refrigeration systems.
* Positively engage with stakeholders, ensuring relevant contract details are accurate.
* Deliver data cleansing activities to ensure optimum data maintenance.
* Maintain compliance in the role, department and site procedures, processes and systems.
* Manage the data creations and changes to SAP vendor data.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications & Skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
* Multi skilled technician with an industry recognised apprenticeship and post-apprenticeship industry-based knowledge and experience.
* Minimum of an HNC level qualification in an Engineering discipline
* Hands on experience of GSK/Pharmaceutical processes and procedures
* Experience with SAP business system
* Demonstrable experience working with cross functional teams in a complex organisation
* Required to demonstrate competence in current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP),
* Strong experience of working in a complex GMP environment.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:
* Experience working in classified areas such as ISO 5 or ISO 7.
* Good communication and teamwork skills
* Ability to implement plans and holding yourself and team accountable for delivery goals
* Ability to work under pressure
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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