Description

Site Name: USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
Posted Date: Oct 28 2025

Business Introduction
GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centered on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.
Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.
Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

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

This role will:

• Be accountable for all engineering support and services in the portfolio, delivering to the RDES footprint across vaccines. This role will be focused on EHS/Life Safety, Business Continuity and Pipeline projects within our RDES facilities.
• Be accountable for the delivery of the portfolio of capital infrastructure projects working with the capital delivery partner to plan, prioritize and deliver agreed project scopes on time and on budget.
• Build organizational capability and competence to deliver objectives, working to identify and execute value-add projects and the appropriate development and application of standards.
• Responsible for all areas of engineering operations, statutory compliance, and Engineering staff development and deployment within the Region.
• Support Real Estate with respect to business acquisitions and due diligence assessments of the businesses.

Responsibilities:

• Implement strategy, policy, and standards to deliver key RDES contracts across the region in the areas of engineering and capital projects.
• Organize RDES engineering staff to ensure effective deployment of initiatives and ways of working across all sites, ensuring GSK Global Engineering Standards and EHS Policies are deployed.
• Deliver the portfolio of capital infrastructure projects on time and on budget in accordance with the site Facility Investment Plans.
• Accountable for ensuring thorough due diligence is completed for all GSK facilities that are to be integrated into RDES.
• Uphold and ensure compliance with internal GSK policies, standards, procedures, alerts, and relevant external regulatory requirements with respect to Quality, Statutory and Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) requirements.
• Accountable for the development, direction, and management of Engineering staff in the region
• Ensure comprehensive Energy Management, Carbon Impact and Utility Cost Reduction Plans are developed and implemented.
• Own global engineering programs, policies, and procedures as required for the RDES organization.

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

• Bachelor's degree or master's in engineering.
• 10+ years' experience within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry delivering engineering services in support of facilities, operations, and/or capital projects.
• Experience managing cost, safety, quality, and compliance metrics for facility and/or engineering services.

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

• MSc (ideally in Engineering or Science)
• PE (Professional Engineering) License
• Safety Qualification and experience of Lean/Six Sigma highly desirable
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation and persuasive skills to successfully interact with managers at all levels
• Ability to think and act strategically. Experience of initiating, developing and implementing Facilities Master Plans
• Displays knowledge of Research & Development processes and has a deep understanding of GxP requirements
• Broad working knowledge of Facilities Management with specialist (discipline) knowledge in one area, e.g., Project Management, Operations, etc.
• Strong experience in an operations or Engineering leadership role with broad understanding of all engineering disciplines as they apply to managing high severity risk at R&D facilities.
• Outstanding managerial skills and leadership abilities to motivate and influence senior GSK executives and managers in a demanding and rapidly evolving environment.
• Ability to think and act strategically and initiate and engage in long term planning.
• Strong ability to act as a motivator of change.
• Acts as a role model for applying standards to ensure compliance.
• Technical expertise to communicate and manage complex, technical issues; can translate technical data, see basic relationships and articulate key messages to stakeholders.
• Displays knowledge of the Research & Development process and understands GxP requirements.
• Financially literate, manages cost centres, OPEX, CAPEX and P&L as required.
• Enterprise Thinking' to effectively direct all activities across sites and region.

This role is onsite in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

We encourage you to apply if you are passionate about facilities, engineering, and making a difference. Join us in creating a healthier world through innovative solutions and teamwork.

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

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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