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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 a Device Engineer you will be a technical expert for device assembly and functionality for both legacy and New Product Introduction (NPI projects on behalf of Manufacturing, Science & Technology (MSAT) throughout the entire GSK network, with most aligned assets sitting within the GSK Barnard Castle site currently. While providing first touch troubleshooting and advice on technical projects, you will also be embedded in the production environment, ensuring critical process parameters are defined and controlled.

In this role you will…

• Be responsible for being the technical head on a manufacturing unit operations ensuring Critical Process Parameters are identified, understood, monitored, and controlled. Where applicable, liaise with process measurement technology (PMT) experts to understand the relationship between measurement, impact of variability in raw materials and intermediates, environmental conditions, equipment conditions, manual operations, and their integration with the control strategy.
• Represent technical in the Operations management team, working closely with engineering, production, and quality to deliver the production requirements. Ensure day to day technical issues are urgently resolved.
• Spearhead and/or support design transfer activities to internal and external manufacturing sites. Provide technical support as a Drug-device Combination (DDC) product Subject Matter Expert (SME) to multi-functional teams for process development, technology transfer, and life cycle management of combination products.
• Maintain a strong level of validated understanding and proficiencies within life cycle management, including expertise in design controls, manufacturing technologies and upcoming combination products for commercialisation
• Be responsible for delivering key technical activities including NPI trials and planned change implementation.
• Support design and development work in support of equipment selection, installation, and validation (including business process change) and support the standardisation of manufacturing and process measurement technology (e.g., PAT) on site.

Why you?

Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelors/Honours degree, or equivalent in an appropriate scientific or engineering discipline (or relevant experience and actively working towards).
• Area of Specialisation: Production engineering, medical device assembly and function, device design and component quality attributes.
• Industrial experience in a Technical, Science or Engineering discipline covering range of processing formats applicable to Pharmaceutical / Medical Device / Healthcare / FMCG.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• Knowledge of device/assembly manufacturing processes and Drug Device Combinations in general.
• Knowledge of the structured problem-solving approaches used for all product & process issues. Some awareness of global packaging technologies and the interface with device technologies.

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. 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.

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