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You will be updated with latest job alerts via emailThe Quality function promotes quality and compliance through the product life-cycle within the wider manufacturing and production operations at the GSK Ware Manufacturing Site. This entails monitoring all quality related systems improvement procedures and documentation (including data and information) ensuring that products released have been manufactured packaged and distributed according to all Regulatory and cGMP requirements (including appropriate certification for EU markets).
Job Purpose:
Reporting to a Quality Operations Manager the Quality Manager on Shift (Operational QA) ensures that activities related to both manufacturing and non-manufacturing areas are carried out compliantly with SOPs and GMP and the impact on product quality and supporting quality systems is fully assessed and recorded. Ensure that products that are released and distributed to market conform to registered and regulatory requirements and are manufactured to cGMP.
This role is aligned to the Oral & Solid Dose (OSD) and Micronising functions.
Key Responsibilities:
Liaise with other functions as appropriate in dealing with incidents affecting product quality or compliance ensuring that deviations from GMP specifications or company standards are fully recorded remediated and investigated.
Review and endorse of CAPA proposals and to provide Quality approval of GMP procedures and documents.
Participate in management monitoring of Quality processes and support wider value stream management monitoring activities.
Provide necessary support in the investigation of customer or vendor complaints.
Identify potential quality issues within manufacturing/packing/warehouse operations or other non-manufacturing areas as appropriate (via inspection GEMBA and process confirmation).
Ensure manufacturing packaging Warehouse and wider support process changes are controlled appropriately and the impacts adequately assessed and monitored.
Ensuring that product released/shipped conforms to the required quality standards.
Provide quality oversight of facilities equipment and personnel.
Support Distribution Risk Assessments (if applicable).
Coach staff in setting and maintaining appropriate quality and compliance standards and liaise with supported functions in providing quality guidance through TAP process Gembas and quality meetings.
As part of the quality assurance team you will promote team working and effective communication across the Ware site and across GSKs wider Quality functions (at other sites).
Operational Quality: Please note that this role requires the successful applicant to be based/work in the GMP area for the site.
Shift: Please note that this role is aligned to the Double-Days shift-pattern. Shifts are circa 06:00 to 13:50 (earlies) or 13:45 to 21:35 (lates) working on a 2-week rotation. Shifts run Monday to Friday.
About You:
As this role is multi-faceted and includes liaising with a wide variety of on-site production and operations teams you will be a self-motivated person who has strong experience of working in quality and/or manufacturing at a complex manufacturing site. You will be resilient and calm under pressure with strong people skills and a proven ability to influence people to achieve objectives and drive performance. You will have a strong continuous improvement mindset. Effective written and verbal communication and excellent interpersonal skills as well as the ability to organise and prioritise workload are considered essential skills.
About Ware Manufacturing Site:
We are co-located with our R&D colleagues and recently opened a new state-of-the-art oral solid dose facility at Ware. At this location our scientists technicians and engineers (from R&D and Global Supply Chain GSC) work collaboratively together (using the latest technologies) to rapidly knowledge transfer and deliver GSKs most innovative medicines faster and more efficiently. On site we produce over 60 million respiratory inhalers each year with growing demand in future years. The site also processes Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) for use both on site and other manufacturing sites in our network.
CLOSING DATE for applications: Wednesday 6th of August 2025 (COB).
Basic Qualifications:
BSc in Scientific Technical or Engineering discipline (or equivalent experience ideally gained working in a Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Facility or similar highly-regulated industry).
Knowledge of current Good Manufacturing Practice requirements.
Knowledge and application of Quality Management Systems (QMS).
Benefits:
GSK offers a range of benefits to its employees which include but are not limited to:
Competitive base Salary
Shift allowance and contractual overtime
Annual bonus based on company performance
Opportunities to partake in on the job training courses
Opportunities to attend and partake in industry conferences
Opportunities for support for professional development and chartership (GSK are accredited by IET IMechE IChemE and other professional bodies)
Access to healthcare and wellbeing programmes
Employee recognition programmes
If you would like to learn more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK we would suggest looking at our webpage Life at GSK GSK.
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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).
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