Senior/ Manufacturing Engineer

Business Introduction

We manufacture and supply reliable, high-quality medicines and vaccines to meet patients’ needs and drive our performance.

Our network of 37 medicines and vaccines manufacturing sites delivered 1.7 billion packs of medicines and 409 million vaccine doses in 2024 to help make a positive impact on the health of millions of people. Our supply chain is not just core to our operations; it’s vital to bringing our innovations to patients as quickly, efficiently and effectively as possible. Technology is transforming how we manufacture medicines and vaccines, enabling us to increase the speed, quality and scale of product supply.

We need the very best minds and capability to help us on our journey to make more complex products, harnessing the power of smart manufacturing technologies including robotics, digital solutions and artificial intelligence to deliver for patients.

Position Summary
This role is designed to be flexibly deployed across two focus areas within the Value Stream, each with its own specific purpose.  As such, the responsibilities and key performance indicators will be defined separately to reflect the differing focus areas.

Technical Operations

• Deliver effective, efficient, compliant, robust, sustainable, and safe process engineering solutions
• Support site impact assessments, new product introductions, technology transfers to deliver site’s ambition as NPI and global supply node
• Provide technical support in the application of process engineering best practice, principles, and process safety on key projects across site, including new product introduction, global supply, asset replacement, sustainability improvement, and process-facility capability improvements
• Lead/support site investigations, CAPAs and change controls. Drive improvement and standardization across the 3 value streams to achieve manufacturing excellence and compliance with current quality and EHS&S standards.

Responsibilities
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

Site investigation & Change Control

- Lead/support site investigation, CAPA and change controls and drive improvement.

- Participate in audit preparation and conduct audits in designated areas; support investigation arising from audit findings and closure of audit CAPAs.

Proposals & Recommendations

- Able to provide technical solutions

- Recommendations on areas for improvement in plant modification works

- Recommendations on plant trial and process change

- Recommendations to review and initiate plant modification for the modification or replacement equipment, when necessary

- CAPAs arising from investigations or gap analysis from EHS and Quality standards

Compliance, Improvement and Standards

- Drive excellence in manufacturing systems and processes by applying GPS standards. Drive sharing and adoption of improvement/simplification ideas, standardization across Value Stream and compliance to EHS and quality standards.

- Collaborate with other site functions to ensure appropriate technical capability is in place.

- Author/execute engineering, relevant qualification and manufacturing documents and change controls related to NPI and capital projects.

- Maintain and set up PAT systems (incl. periodic revision of the attendant SOP and WIs).

Why You?
Work arrangement: This role is on-site in Singapore. You will work closely with colleagues across operations, quality, engineering and safety, with occasional cross-site collaboration.

Basic Qualification
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:
- Minimum bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or chemistry
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in pharmaceutical, chemical or petrol-chemical industry.

- Knowledge of product, manufacturing processes and the plant

- Good process design knowledge (relevant to Tech-Ops Process Engineering)

- Good plant troubleshooting / optimization skills

- Basic engineering knowledge

- Basic statistical knowledge

- Knowledge of GMP, safety, hygiene and environment regulations

What we value
We look for people who are curious, reliable and open to learning. We value clear, honest communication and collaborative problem solving. You will be supported to grow your skills and take on visible work that delivers real benefit to patients and communities. We welcome applicants from different backgrounds and career paths and we are committed to inclusion.

Ready to apply?
If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply. Tell us about your experience and what you want to achieve next. We look forward to hearing from you.

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.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and providing equal opportunities for all applicants. We embrace an agile working culture across our roles, so if flexibility is important to you please discuss opportunities with our hiring team. If you need any adjustments to the recruitment process to help you demonstrate your strengths and capabilities, contact APACRecruitment.Adjustments@gsk.com. Please note this email is for adjustment requests only; for other enquiries please use our standard contact channels.

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