Engineering Maintenance Lead

Engineering Maintenance Lead

Job Purpose:

We are looking for an Engineering Maintenance Lead to join the process engineering team supporting our new R&D Steriles pilot plant facility in Marietta PA. This role will be responsible for developing and managing the process equipment maintenance program supporting process design equipment procurement commissioning and qualification and coordinating with key stakeholders such as operations quality assurance EHS and validation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate and lead design meetings with equipment vendors

• Develop and manage the maintenance program for R&D Process Engineering

• Develop and manage the R&D (Research & Development) Process Engineering spare parts program

• Review design documents specifications P&IDs and protocols from vendors

• Participate in support and/or execute FATs (Factory Acceptance Test) SATs(Site Acceptance Test ) commissionings and qualification activities

• Generate safety assessments and procedures

• Lock-out-tag-out Hazardous Energy Control Procedures Safety Risk Assessments Permit-to-Work

• Coordinate planned and unplanned maintenance activities with stakeholders operations quality sterility assurance EHS tech services etc.

• Troubleshoot equipment failures and provide guidance/direction on remediation options

• Perform root cause analyses for systemic production issues related to process equipment

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 years maintenance or engineering experience for process equipment

• Pharmaceutical/Vaccines experience

• 1 years of people management experience

• Electrical and mechanical experience

• Experience troubleshooting equipment failures Reading P&IDs and electrical drawings

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting Aseptic Formulation/Compounding and Filling (sterile product) manufacturing

• Small-scale Project Management experience (ex. new equipment/process introduction and/or equipment/process modification)

• Process Equipment maintenance experience

• Familiarity with preventative and corrective maintenance programs

• Spare parts management
• Filler lyophilizer/freeze-dryer capper autoclave washer COP/SOP stations isolators

• Coordination and management of vendors such as original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)

• Safety experience issuing PTWs (Permit to Work) writing and executing LOTO (Lock-out-tag-out) procedures and authoring equipment safety risk assessments

Employees are required to adhere to established safe systems of work which include wearing properly secured laboratory coats gowns or coveralls in laboratory or process areas at all times. This practice reflects the principles of good occupational hygiene and microbiological standards. Consequently mandating proper gowning for specific tasks is essential to maintaining compliance with safety and hygiene regulations.

This position will initially be located at the GSKs Upper Merion site in Upper Merion Pennsylvania from 2025 to 2028 and will permanently move to Marietta Pennsylvania afterwards.

Employees need to be onsite for 4-5 days in a week.

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

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 were 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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