PROCESS SAFETY ENGINEER

Site Name: UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage

Posted Date: May 2 2024

Process Safety Engineer

Closing Date for Applications – 16th May (COB)

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

The primary purpose of the Process Safety Engineer role is to provide on-going engineering support for managing the identification, assessment, and selection of controls to prevent major accident hazard events across the R&D site (inclusive of infrastructure and R&D systems). The role will manage consistent execution and ensure compliance with the Process Safety program across the site through provision of engineering and project management skills. The role will also support consistent delivery of facilities, engineering service and engineering compliance for those EHS critical systems in scope of Process Safety in working closely with the site operations team, capital projects and service partner organizations.

This role will foster a culture of transparency and trust with operations teams, service partners and customers with being present a minimum of 4 days on site per week.

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programmes.

We embrace modern work practices; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

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In this role you will:

• As Technical Authority and Responsible Person for Process Safety at the R&D site, within GSK's Engineering & Statutory Duty Holder Framework, champion a consistent approach to execution of relevant assessments, manage the lifecycle of re-evaluations, and monitor compliance to the Process Safety Management program across the site, inclusive of infrastructure and R&D systems.
• Build relationships with key R&D customers and our contracted Service Partners to identify, assess, and select appropriate controls to prevent major accident hazard events at the R&D site.
• Build relationships with our contracted Service Partners who run facility services on site and execute management monitoring activities to ensure EHS critical maintenance and functional testing of EHS critical controls are conducted with an appropriate level of rigor in accordance with an agreed schedule.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to improve safety and hierarchy of controls. Facilitate frequent walkthroughs (i.e., GEMBA) within the facilities involving SMEs in site operations, R&D business, and service partners.
• Develop and implement process safety improvements and equipment upgrades, utilizing the proper change control method and providing documentation of change, to implement engineered controls and decrease likelihood of major accident hazard consequences.
• Technical engineering representative on capital projects to ensure projects with process safety equipment/systems in scope are designed, modified, and delivered in accordance with external and internal GSK engineering/EHS standards.

Why you?

Qualifications & Skills:

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

• Holds a degree in Engineering (preferred Mechanical, Chemical or Electrical)
• Experience with Process Safety Management supporting hazard identifications (HAZID), process hazard analysis (PHA), hierarchy of controls or safety integrity level (SIL).
• Experience in engineering or operations in the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, or other large, regulated industry.
• Experience in technical engineering related to mechanical, electrical, and/or process engineering infrastructure systems.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

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

• Displays knowledge of the Research & Development process and understands GxP requirements.
• Ability to understand and apply engineering principles and standards to a site.
• Ability to establish strong working relationships with key external contract partners, to deliver appropriate site services in agreement with established contracts.
• Strong ability to act as a motivator of change.
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation and persuasive skills to successfully interact with managers at all levels and the ability to manage internal relations with site customer base.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

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. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

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 place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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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