Head of Facilities & Engineering

Full time on site in Cambridge – domestic relocation assistance provided.

GSK is one of the world’s foremost pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, and we are proud to be part of an industry that improves the lives of others. We are embarking on a significant transformation journey that will support new GSK in becoming a top-quartile data-enabled organization.

Are you an experience Pharma/Biotech R&D Facility Operations leader? Join us and make an impact on our business on a whole range of levels.

The Head of Facilities and Engineering provides strategic leadership for facility operations at our New England R&D Hub. . You will be accountable for all engineering, facilities and contractor management in the region. 

You will also be accountable for the management and delivery of services and infrastructure across R&D site operations ensuring that these services support and facilitate all business operations. Infrastructure and services within R&D Operations are provided by contract service partners, and as such, the role will ensure effective local governance of the contracted relationships to confirm service delivery remains quality, safety and customer focused; infrastructure is robust; and effective service performance management is in place. 

Currently, we have over £100 M in capital projects over the next three years focused on EHS/Life Safety, Business Continuity, Pipeline, Sustainability and Accessibility projects within our R&D facilities. This role will be accountable for prioritization and delivery of the capital portfolio and will ensure we remain compliant with our EHS and engineering standards across the sites. 

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the provision of a single point of accountability for engineering services to the VP, R&D Engineering Services.
• Be a member of the R&D Engineering Services (RDES) Leadership team and collaborate with peers within the Central Engineering & EHS organization.
• Responsible for local delivery of all facilities and services within the New England R&D Hub, ensuring cost, quality and compliance targets are achieved by key contract partners.
• Relationship management with senior managers in GSK to ensure facilities infrastructure and services facilitate and support the full range of business operations whilst ensuring enterprise needs are aligned and balanced against local business needs and constraints.
• You will build regional organizational capability and competence to deliver objectives, working with the RDES Central Teams to identify and execute value-add projects and the appropriate development and application of standards.
• Responsible for all areas of the engineering operations, contractor management, statutory compliance, and Engineering staff development and deployment within the Region.
• Support Real Estate with respect to business acquisitions and due diligence assessments of the businesses.
• Ensure capital project delivery is appropriately prioritized to mitigate risk, support GSK business strategy, and improve the site environmental sustainability.
• Ensure that risks associated with RDES service delivery within the region are identified and appropriately managed and/or mitigated.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline required.
• 10+ years of experience in and Operations or Engineering leadership role in a GMP environment required.
• Pharma or Biotech R&D Engineering environment required.
• Experience delivering and managing large Capital Projects across a region working with CAPEX, OPEX and P&L required.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Experience leading Direct Reports and large matrix teams preferred.
• Experience collaborating with and influencing stakeholders from various teams preferred.

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 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.

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