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Sustainability Lead

We have a new opportunity for a Sustainability Lead to join our team here at GSK at our Montrose site. Do you want to work for a team that are invested in your career development? The Sustainability Lead will develop and deliver a sustainability programme at our Montrose site; identifying, promoting and running improvement opportunities to drive reduction in energy usage, water and waste, delivering gains in manufacturing efficiencies.

In this role you will…

• Establish and manage an appropriate planning, financial and performance reporting system to ensure resources are in place to support the sustainable manufacturing programme.
• Ensure that the GSK energy policy, energy strategy and plans are locally implemented to meet corporate sustainability targets. Liaise with central teams to set said targets and with regulatory bodies for permits and grants
• Accountable for the collection of monthly and annual data for on and off-Site reporting purposes of utility and energy metrics and adopt the use of Digital Data & Analytics to do so.
• Run site initiatives for promoting energy/water/waste savings. This includes initiating and where appropriate leading sustainability driven projects such as heat pumps, boiler technology, HVAC improvements and the planned solar farm.
• Oversee and ensure the provision of support and technical advice for capital projects with respect to sustainable manufacturing.
• Leading problem solving activities to identify the root cause for excursions in energy and water usage metrics.

Closing Date for Applications: Wednesday 13th September 2023

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When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements below. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications

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

• Degree in Engineering Discipline or relevant equivalent experience
• Understanding and application of continuous improvement initiatives
• Interpretation and use of Quality, EHS and Engineering Standards at local and Corporate Policy level
• Strong data analysis skills
• Demonstratable high level of compliance
• Ability to work with staff and external bodies across a range of levels and disciplines

Preferred Qualifications/ Experience:

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

• Chartership in relevant Engineering Discipline
• Highly developed communication and influencing skills to manage stakeholders across site
• Highly accountable, organised and driving for results
• Ability to interpret and analyse information and simplify for a broad audience
• High degree of matrix working required to ensure delivery of a diverse programme and projects
• Knowledge of capital project process to ensure that projects within the programme are managed and delivered
• Networking and building/managing relationships with customer group, central GSK teams as well as regulatory bodies.

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).

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