Job Description

GSK make and supply medicines and vaccines all around the globe and our teams own every production stage, from creating quality products at our manufacturing sites to designing effective supply forecasting and regulatory inspections; all powered by digital, data and analytics. We operate at impressive scale, producing over 2.3 billion packs of medicines and doses of vaccines in 2022.

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 programme.

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

Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage

As an Assistant Shift Manager you will assist in the management of the Irvine site operations on a shift by shift basis such that it is safe, complaint and meets business requirements. Provide Leadership for their Shift Site Emergency Response Team (ERT)

In this role you will\xe2\x80\xa6

• Oversee all operations activities to ensure that required standards and procedures are understood and complied with
• Be responsible for safe and complaint management of Shift Permit to Work (PTW) activities as per the SOP
• Ensure adherence with shift production plans and standard ways of working, explaining all deviations using GPS metrics
• Review batch documentation and EBR to ensure compliance and raise deviations as appropriate
• Be responsible for coaching and training of the shift teams in process troubleshooting and plant understanding to ensure competency including GMP
• Manage the shift emergency response team.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

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

• HND/Degree qualification in appropriate discipline or significant process experience
• Managing safety qualification and relevant process knowledge
• Experience of training and coaching of operators in plant and process understanding
• Influencing staff without direct line responsibility
• Ability to effectively contribute to the proactive to the proactive maintenance planning process and to department project initiatives
• Accountability for the PTW process on the plant, ensuring risk assessments for non-routine activity are carried out where required.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• NEBOSH certification
• MERP (Manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning Solution) troubleshooting
• Knowledge of Quality Management Systems, Environmental Health and Safety and GPS
• Being able to influence others and find resolutions under pressure
• Excellent Communication skills with the ability to communicate to different audiences
• Show resilience during periods of change and during complex problems.

Closing Date for Applications: 20th September 2023

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Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose \xe2\x80\x93 to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together \xe2\x80\x93 so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns \xe2\x80\x93 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99re 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).

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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