Engineering Technician (6-month Secondment / Fixed-Term Contract - FTC)

At GSK’s Barnard Castle site, we are looking to recruit an Engineering Technician to join our team.

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.

The engineering team provide technical expertise to support the manufacturing systems for all production operations across the Barnard Castle site.

Job Purpose:

As an Engineering Technician you will provide comprehensive and professional engineering support service for the Dermatologicals Filling and Packaging function at the site (to meet business and regulatory needs).
 

Key responsibilities (include.,):

Equipment Maintenance & Reliability

• Support day-to-day breakdown repairs of production and plant equipment.
• Complete Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedules and breakdown maintenance activities.
• Perform calibration of equipment instrumentation.
• Lead equipment upgrades and manage equipment obsolescence through continuous improvement initiatives.
• Complete tasks within Engineering Change Controls.

GMP, Quality & Safety

• Prepare, complete, and take ownership of GMP safety and quality documentation.
• Maintain compliance with role, departmental, and site procedures, processes, and systems.
• Supervise internal and external contractors, ensuring GMP standards are upheld and contract company details are reviewed for accuracy.
• Positively engage with stakeholders to ensure relevant contract details remain accurate.

SAP / MERPS & Data Management

• Accountable for the delivery of SAP/MERPS activities including Work Orders, Notifications, Data Maintenance, and ordering of plant spares.
• Deliver data cleansing activities to ensure optimum data maintenance standards.
• Manage data creations and changes to SAP vendor data.

Continuous Improvement & Performance

• Drive Continuous Improvement to increase performance in line with EHS and Quality improvement objectives and KPIs, utilising GPS tools.
• Self-manage training compliance metrics to ensure ongoing personal and regulatory compliance.

Shift:  Please note that this role operates on a 16/5 “Double-Days” shift rota:  Earlies (6:00 to 14:00), Lates (14:00 to 22:00) – alternating weeks.

Please Note:  This Fixed Term Contract (FTC) / secondment is expected to last circa 6 months in duration.  Please ensure you have spoken with your line-manager to ensure they are supportive of your application (this includes a timely-release from your current responsibilities should you be offered the Secondment).

About You:

Relevant engineering qualifications and / or experience is required (eg; HND / HNC, Engineering Apprenticeship).  A good standard of numeracy and literacy is essential.  Ideally you will have hands-on experience of working on high-speed filling and packaging machines or associated equipment (Ideally obtained from working in a highly-regulated industry).

CLOSING DATE for applications:   Friday 5th of June 2026 (COB).

Basic Qualifications / Skills:

• Relevant qualifications/certificates and engineering experience (e.g. Engineering Apprenticeship.  An HNC / HND Level qualification).
• Applicants without an HNC level qualification need to have EngTech status (certificate) and have completed a recognised engineering apprenticeship.
• A good standard of numeracy and literacy.
• Hands-on experience of manufacturing processes and procedures (eg; high-speed filling and packaging machines), ideally obtained from working in a highly-regulated industry.
• Knowledge of current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP).

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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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